Theorem, no. 1 (2019) 12 noon - 10PM performance across Tenderloin and northern Marina Districts, San Francisco. Research, actions with Seycon Nadia Chea, Mohamed Soumah & Bana Kabalan, with collaboration of Del Seymour, Josef Cadwell, eastside Detroiters from LST, the Tenderloin Museum, and Counterpulse. Theorem, no. 1 is a commission of Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture curated and organized by Frank Smigiel, with additional support of San Francisco Art Institute. Performance still photograph by Charlie Vilyard.

Photo by Charles White, JW Pictures Inc.

Maya Stovall, Liquor Store Theatre, 2014-2016. Installation view, 2017 Biennial exhibition. Photograph by Ron Amstutz.

Maya Stovall, 1526 (1526 NASDAQ: FAANG), no. 1, 2019, archives, buttercream neon, and FAANG fonts, Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), purchased with funds provided by AHAN: Studio Forum, 2021 Art Here and Now purchase, © Maya Stovall, photo by Clare Gatto, courtesy of the artist and Reyes | Finn, Detroit

Maya Stovall: Razon/Reason, solo exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum
Courtesy the artist, Reyes | Finn Detroit and Parrasch Heijnen Los Angeles
Partial installation view photo: Francisco Ramos

Theorem, no. 1 (2019)
Public performance commission, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA.
© Maya Stovall, courtesy Fort Mason, SFAI and the artist.
Performance still, Theorem, no. 1. Photo by Charlie Vilyard.

Photo by Francisco Ramos.

Maya Stovall: A____That Defies Gravity, no. 40-49 (2021)
Snow white, frost, rose gold neon
95 in x 130 in
Installation image, Art Basel Miami Beach 2021, courtesy Reyes | Finn and the artist.

Maya Stovall: A____That Defies Gravity, no. 50-59 (2022)
Pale blue neon, palest blue neon
95 in x 72 in
Installation image, Razon/Reason, solo exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, courtesy Reyes | Finn, Parrasch Heijnen and the artist.
Photo: Francisco Ramos

Maya Stovall, A_____ That Defies Gravity, no. 37-39 (2021)
Baby blue neon, 87 in x 46 in
© Maya Stovall, courtesy Parrasch Heijnen and the artist.
Exhibition installation image in Maya Stovall: A something = x courtesy Parrasch Heijnen.

"The Whitney revealed the 63 participants in its sprawling survey of what’s happening now in contemporary art—the new, the influential and the potentially provocative."
—The New York Times

Partial exhibition view, Maya Stovall: Lux, White Columns NYC. Photo courtesy White Columns.

Partial exhibition view, Maya Stovall: Lux, White Columns NYC. Photo courtesy White Columns.

Maya Stovall: A _____ that defies gravity, no. 11-30 (1526 NASDAQ: FAANG) 2020
Photo courtesy Reyes | Finn

Maya Stovall in her solo exhibition, Machine, with Reyes | Finn, Detroit.
Image courtesy Reyes | Finn.

Photograph courtesy Charlie Villyard.

Partial installation view, Maya Stovall: Under New Ownership, solo exhibition, jointly presented by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture & San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Calif. curated by Frank Smigiel.

Installation photograph courtesy Pei Ketron & Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.

Maya Stovall: Theorem, no. 1 (2019)
08 hr 00 min
A public performance commission of Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
Photo by Charlie Villyard.

Maya Stovall: Theorem, no. 1, 2019
08 hr 00 min
A commission of Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
Photo by Charlie Villyard.

Maya Stovall, Liquor Store Theatre, vol. 4, no. 7 (2017), (l monitor). Maya Stovall: Liquor Store Theatre, vol. 2, no. 2 (2015), (r monitor), installation view, BELIEVE, curated by David Liss. Photograph courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art Canada.

Maya Stovall, Untitled A, 2017. Installation view, 2017 Fictions Exhibition. Photograph courtesy The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Installation view including Maya Stovall, Liquor Store Theatre, vol. 4, no. 7 (2017) (monitor at left) in Homemade, curated by McArthur Binion. Installation image courtesy Library Street Collective.

Maya Stovall: Liquor Store Theatre Performance Films photograph by P.D. Rearick and courtesy Cranbrook Art Museum. Curated by Laura Mott.

Mohamed Soumah and Maya Stovall in performance of Maya Stovall: Manifesto, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, May 17, 2017. Photograph copyright Paula Court.

Location: Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Theater

MANIFESTO is a new performance by 2017 Whitney Biennial artist Maya Stovall. Working with collaborators Biba Bell, Mohamed Soumah, and Todd Stovall, the artist presents an evening of chance encounters through which she explores the motivations, genealogies, and sources of her Liquor Store Theatre.

"Featuring national artists Biba Bell, Megan Byrne, Jennifer Harge, Pedro Jiménez, Jessica Ray, and Maya Stovall, as well as St. Louis-based artists Jacqueline Fritz, Maxi Glamour, Fame Mizrahi, and Kat Reynolds, among others, this program will explore spatial relationships to fluidity and movement in response to Medardo Rosso’s figurative work on view, as well as the spaces of the Pulitzer’s Tadao Ando-designed building and the architecture of St. Louis." -Pulitzer Arts