Maya Erin Masuda, is a queer artistic researcher based in Den Haag, Berlin and Tokyo. Her practice engages with trans-species intimacy and queer ecologies. From the circulation of artificial milk, contaminated plants to synthetic skin, her time-based, spatial narratives incorporate various non-human subjects to sensually confront the technological biopolitical violence which permeates human and non-human bodies alike. Departing from her personal narratives on reproduction, hormonal therapy and normativity, she speculates alternative forms of trans-species solidarity as an act of care and resistance. In her work, toxicity and inflammation emerge as ambivalent phenomena that shape abjected forms of belonging, challenging anthropocentric narratives.

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, and also works as the co-founder of the feminist-queer journal i+med(i/e)a. After obtaining her MA from the Royal College of Art (UK), she currently researches post-nuclear culture in relation to reproductive futurity at Universität der Künste Berlin (DE). She gives lectures on Queer Ecologies at varoius art institute. Her recent solo exhibitions include Ecologies of Closeness (YCAM, 2025, JP), Sleep, Lick, Leak, Deep… (Daiwa Japan Foundation London, 2024,UK), curation includes Ground Zero (Kyoto Art Center, JP, 2023), panels and group exhibitions include Transmediale 2025(Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2025, DE), Constructing Utopia (Gallery XY Olomouc,2023,CZ)and so on. 

Maya is available for general enquiries, commissions, or collaborations. Please contact her directly via maya.masuda@network.rca.ac.uk  .