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THE NEW YORK TIMES says Maya Stovall Dumas “vividly juxtaposes art and life." ARTFORUM says she "channels the spirits of cities unseen," HYPERALLERGIC says she "dispels urban myths about Detroit," and ARTNEWS calls her work “stunning.”

Anthropologist and conceptual artist Maya Stovall (b. Detroit) is represented by Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles.

Her works are represented in public permanent museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); The Studio Museum in Harlem; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Cranbrook Art Museum; and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Her work analyzes the production of space, place, and power in cities and in technology, realized in multimodal practice through conceptual sculpture, generative systems, light and space, performance, text, and video. She is currently working on a critical ethnographic study centered on LLM artificial intelligence as a cultural actor.

Major works involve projects for the Counterpublic Triennial; Blaffer Art Museum; University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center; Art Basel Miami Beach; White Columns; Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture; San Francisco Art Institute; Studio Museum in Harlem; Cranbrook Art Museum; Aka Artist Run Saskatchewan Canada; University of Aarhus Denmark; Whitney Biennial and Whitney Museum of American Art.

She lives and works in Los Angeles and serves as Associate Professor at California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly), Pomona.

Ph.D., Anthropology, Wayne State University
MBA, University Of Chicago Booth School of Business
BBA, Howard University
Detroit Cass Technical High School alumni