Maya Erin Masuda, is an artistic researcher based in Berlin, London and Tokyo. Her work revolves around cyborg ecosystems, planetary trauma, artificial lives forms and queer ecologies. As an artist with particular focus on ecological intimacy, she’s been aiming to propose affective, sensual, intimate sites of knowledge production which interweave the non-human, the marginalized and the symbolic. Developing a kinship with the imperfect and political nature of technology, she work attempts to provide interspecies belonging and care across all beings, while suggesting an alternative future where natural, technological and artificial intertwine.

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. 

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