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Maya Gurantz is an artist in video, performance, and installation. Her work interrogates social imaginaries of American culture and how constructions of gender, race, class and progress operate in our shared myths, public rituals and private desires.

Maya's work has shown at Catharine Clark Gallery, Grand Central Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, MoCA Utah, Oakland Museum of California, High Desert Test Sites, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, The Field Experiment Atlanta, LAND (Nomadic Division), Art Center College of Design, Navel LA, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Autonomie Gallery, the Great Wall of Oakland, and Movement Research at Judson Church, among others. Her work has appeared in film festivals including New Haven International Film Fest, Seattle True Independent, New Jersey, Austin Arthouse, LA Asian Film Festival, Red Rock, Seattle True Independent, Stockholm City, and the Madrid Film Awards.

She was the inaugural recipient of the Pieter Performance Grant for Dancemakers, and received a 2020 Artist Residency at the McColl Center for Art and Innovation.

Maya's writing has been published at The LA Review of Books, This American Life, Notes on Looking, The Frame at KPCC, ACID-FREE, The Awl, InDance Magazine, Theater Magazine, and an anthology, CRuDE, published by the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Bourges.

She's received funding, awards and recognition from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the NEA, the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Contemporary Collectors, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Fleishhacker Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Theater Bay Area, the Puffin Foundation, and the Bay Area Critics Circle.