ABOUT MAYA
ABOUT MAYA
Maya Sapsford is a New York City-based artist whose work explores the complexities of multicultural identity within the landscape of contemporary media consumption. Growing up between major cities and within a family of two cultural backgrounds, she draws from this experience to create layered, textured compositions using figural line drawings, found media, and bold color. Incorporating torn advertisements, magazine clippings, and Japanese washi paper, her work reflects the fluid, unconventional nature of the modern multicultural American experience. By blending materials from different cultural origins, she explores both the tension and harmony that emerge when disparate influences merge to form something entirely new. Through dense, saturated imagery, she examines how personal and cultural narratives are shaped, distorted, and redefined in an era of constant media exposure. Embracing complexity, fragmentation, and movement, her work invites viewers to navigate an intricate visual landscape—one that echoes the layered and evolving experience of growing up between cultures.
A graduate of Kenyon College…
Where I pursued a double major in Studio Art and International Studies, focusing on politics and society with an East Asia concentration. Additionally, I received a minor in the Japanese language. My senior thesis examined the implications of childcare policy on female labor participation in Japan. I was a member of the varsity volleyball team, a recipient of a 4-year partial merit scholarship, and graduated cum laude.
STUDIO ART
In my time at Kenyon, my art studies allowed me to gain experience in a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and digital art. I’ve also taught myself my way around the Adobe suite, Canva, and Procreate, and am proficient at Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, and Premiere.
