MAYA MASUDA
Born in Japan, where the 2011 nuclear disaster occurred, she witnessed the ambivalent nature of techno-ecological interconnectedness. With a background in machine engineering and science, she became aware of molecular biopolitics and the uneven distribution of environmental and health capital shaped by contemporary technologies.
Focusing on ecological intimacy, she proposes affective, sensual sites of knowledge that interweave the non-human, the marginalized, and the symbolic. Embracing the imperfect and political nature of technology, her work fosters interspecies care while envisioning post-anthropocentric futures.
Her practice encompasses a wide range of fields such as curation, publishing and activism. She was a curator of Kyoto Art Centre CO-program 2023, writes critiques on Tokyo Art Beat, also works as the co-founder of the feminist-queer journal i+med(i/e)a.
After Obtaining her MA from Royal College of Art (UK), she currently researches post-nuclear culture in relation to the reparative process of planetary trauma at Freie Universität Berlin (DE) and Universität der Künste Berlin (DE). Her recent exhibitions include Transmediale 2025(Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2025, DE), Sleep, Lick, Leak, Deep… (Daiwa Japan Foundation London, 2024,UK), Ground Zero (Kyoto Art Center, JP, 2023),Constructing Utopia (Gallery XY Olomouc,2023,CZ)and so on.