Maya is a visual artist focused on sites of cultural translation. Her projects in photography, installation, drawing, and film originate in her multilingual background and experience as a language educator. Descended of Jewish-Moroccan and American parentage, she speaks varying degrees of French, Spanish, and Arabic. Collaboration and the act of talking through the creative process with other artists, colleagues, and students have been important aspects of her practice. Krinsky was co-writer and on the edit team for the Academy Award-nominated experimental documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening. She is currently Associate Director for Multilingual Learning at Rhode Island School of Design and Adjunct Visual Art faculty at Brown University.

Email: mayakrinsky@gmail.com

CV

Education

2016 Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program (Studio)
2014 Rhode Island School of Design, MFA Photography
2006 School for International Training, Certificate in TESOL
2004 Bard College, BA Photography

Talks and presentations

2022 Panelist, Language Pedagogy and Social Justice, roundtable presentation and discussion moderated by David Borgonjon, The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
2021 Artist talk with RaMell Ross, Departments of Photography and Human Rights Program, Bard College, Annandale, NY
2020 Visiting critic, Photography course by Jiehao Su, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2018 Discussion and Q&A, Marrakech International Film Festival, Marrakech, Morocco
2018 Panel discussion, Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship, Quad Cinema, New York, NY
2018 Artist talk with RaMell Ross, Based On a True Story, True False Film Festival, Columbia, MO
2017 Public Conversation with artist Saman Sajasi, Periphery Art Space, Pawtucket, RI
2017 Artist Talk and Guest Critic, University of Minnesota Department of Art, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Guest Lecturer, Drawing as Installation, Prof. Alan Ruiz, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Art and Language(s), Artist lecture, Museum Education Department RISD Museum of Art
2015 On Language Learning, Prompter for La Table Ronde, Critical Practices Inc., New York
2014 What is a Document? Panel Presentation, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2014 Guest Lecturer, Prof. Justin Kimball, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

Awards and publishing

2023 The Language Learner’s Critique, in Let’s Talk About Critique, Edited by Mariah Doren and Elissa Armstrong.
2023 How to Learn a Foreign Language, Providence Arts and Letters, Edited by Liz Maynard, Providence College Galleries.

2018 Camera Austria International featured project Ideal Abyss in print, issue #143, Selected and with a text by Nicolas Linnert.
2017 Level Ground Residency via Andy Warhol Foundation, Yeah Maybe, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Intensive fellow in Sundance Institute Summer Documentary Story and Edit Lab, for Hale County, This Morning, This Evening.
2015 American Sigh, Commissioned artist, Scrapped Magazine, New York, NY
2013 Puerto Rico, USA, Graduate Studies Project Grant Juried by Alyson Baker and João Ribas

College-level teaching/Courses:

2021 - 2024 Photography Foundation, Department of Visual Art, Brown University
Studio course providing a foundation in darkroom, digital, and antique processes in photography. Includes introductions to film scanning, studio lighting, and project development.

2018 - 2021 Art History 101: Global Modernisms, Department of Theory and History of Art & Design, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Required first-year art history course focusing on global modernisms in art and design.

2019 Digital Photography, Department of Visual Art, Brown University
Studio course incorporating theory and practice of digital photography.

2014 - 2018 Studio Languages, Department of Graduate Studies, RISD
Interdisciplinary graduate-level studio and seminar course on language as intercultural material in contemporary art.

2017 Issues and Images II, Department of Photography, RISD
Seminar on video installation, film and other time-based practices for photography majors.

2016 Issues and Images I, Department of Photography, RISD
Seminar on critical issues in contemporary photography.

2015 Senior Thesis in Photography, Department of Design, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Studio course for senior photography majors. Advised students on all aspects of their final projects, including book design and final exhibition of work.

2014 Digital Photography, Department of Design, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Studio course in capture, edit and print of digital images and project development.

2014 Darkroom Photography for non-majors
Department of Photography, RISD

Exhibitions

2019 Spanish Lessons, in nibia pastrana santiago, Hidrante, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2019 Can You Dream It, curated by Scott Alario, Kristen Lorello Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Cultural Crossroads curated by Vanessa Godden, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
2018 If you're not into subtitles, faculty exhibition, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
2017 Crossing Borders, curated by Judith Tolnick Champa and Jocelyn Foye, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities, Brown University, Providence, RI
2017 Maya Krinsky and Dylan Nelson, Yeah Maybe, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Curator: When we think of tourists, Open Aperture Gallery, Newport, RI
2016 Tools and Relics, The Open Aperture Gallery, Newport, RI
2015 101, Strange Teaching curated by Rainer Ganahl, The Sump, Ridgewood, NY
2015 Curator: Language vs. Language, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI. Public programs included Critical Practices La Table Ronde and a performance project by artist Rainer Ganahl.
2015 Solo exhibition, Maintenance, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
2015 101, 28 day performance, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
2014 English Lessons, 6th Cairo Video Festival, Gezira Art Center, Cairo, Egypt

Film projects and collaborations

2019 Spanish Lessons in collaboration with artist/dancer nibia pastrana santiago
2019 Easter Snap, Directed by RaMell Ross; Associate Producer
2018 Hale County This Morning, This Evening by RaMell Ross; Co-writer and edit team
2017 If you’re not into subtitles, video compilation
2017 Erasing English, video compilation
2014 English Lessons, video compilation