Maya Masuda (b. Tokyo, JP, she/her), is a Tokyo/London-based, queer interdisciplinary artist. Maya brings her unique speculative post-human/post-patriarchal realism to life through storytelling via film, performance, writing and time-based installation. As an artist who has a background in machine engineering, Maya proposes affective, sensual, spatiotemporal narrative which reimagines ‘otherness’  as a perfect totality set within the abjected state, which interweaves non-human, marginalised and symbolic. Developing a kinship with the imperfect and political nature of technology, her work reveals and interrogates constructed images of idealised futurity while suggesting an alternative methodology that negates capitalistic patriarchy.


Graduating from Tama Art University in Japan, she currently studies and researches new media archaeology at the Royal College of Art. Her practice encompasses a wide range of fields such as curation, publishing and activism. She is the co-founder of the feminist-queer journal “i+med(i/e)a”, and was recently shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries(2022, UK), Sustainability First Art Prize (2021, UK). Her recent exhibitions include Trans×Formation(2022, AnBTokyo), Ars Electronica (2021, Tokyo Midtown), Aichi Triennale U27 program Exhibition (2019, Art Lab Aichi) etc.