Maya Erin Masuda, is a Berlin/Tokyo/London-based, queer interdisciplinary artist. As a speculative design facilitator, she has brought her ecological intersubjectivities to life through storytelling via film, performance, writing and time-based installations. Throughout her work, she delicately poses techno-biological questions by probing various planetary traumas and chemical infrastructures, seen in spatiotemporally diverse sites such as nuclear catastrophes.

Born in Japan where the nuclear explosion happened in 2011, she has witnessed the significant long-lasting suffering of communities that transverse species as she grew up. This upbringing, combined with her background in machine engineering and in science, enabled her to become painfully aware of the reality of molecular biopolitics, as well as the uneven distribution of environmental / health capital that is accelerated through the implementation of contemporary technologies. Consequently, as an artist with particular focus on ecological trauma, 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 as well as reparative attention across all beings, while suggesting an alternative future that rejects anthropocentrism.

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 Universität der Künste Berlin (DE) with prof. Nina Fischer. Her practice encompasses a wide range of fields such as curation, publishing and activism. Her solo show include Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (2025,JP), Daiwa Foundation (2024,UK).

Her practice encompasses a wide range of fields such as curation, publishing and activism. She is appointed as 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.  She was recently shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries(2022, UK), Sustainability First Art Prize (2021, UK). Her recent exhibitions include 손과 속삭임, Hands and Whispers(2023, Seoul), Interassemblages - Nodal Relay(2022,  Berlin),“ESC” - YYYYMMDD + VVOVVA (2022, online/Vienna), Trans×Formation(2022, AnBTokyo), Aichi Triennale U27 program Exhibition (2019, Art Lab Aichi) etc.