Maia Navas 
Artist, Photography, Teaching, Video, Videoarte
Argentina

Born in Corrientes, Argentina (1986), where she currently resides. She is an artist, curator, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts and Technology, a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, and is a specialist in Creativity and Innovation. She is a professor of the course Seminar I: Image and Sound Workshop in the Bachelor’s Degree in Combined Arts at the National University of the Northeast (UNNE).

She is the director of the PLAY Festival – Video Art Week – held at the Cultural Center for University Extension (UNNE). She is also a member of the online project Arca Video Argentino, an archive and database of Argentine video art.

She has exhibited in numerous shows across Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and China. Notable participations include the official selections of the Photography Biennial “Ficciones” (Punta del Este, 2011); FASE 4 and FASE 6 Art and Technology Encounters (Buenos Aires/Rosario, 2012/2014); Videoguerrilla (São Paulo, 2012); VideoBabel Festival (Lima, 2013, 2014); Videoakt Video Art Biennial (Barcelona, 2013); N-Minutes Festival (Shanghai, 2013); Nuovissimo Festival (Tuscany, 2014); PROYECTOR (Madrid, 2015), and the Itaú Prize (Buenos Aires, 2017).

She has also given lectures on her artistic work and video art at the Complutense University of Madrid and Rey Juan Carlos University (Aranjuez), and has served as an international juror for the Proyector Festival (Madrid, 2016) and the 3 Margens Film Festival (Brazil, 2017).

She attended the workshop of artist Mabel Vilchez, participated in the Federal Arts Program Artboomerang, and received scholarships from the National Fund for the Arts (2012–2014) for advanced clinics coordinated by Claudia del Río, Verónica Gómez, Roberto Echen, and Andrés Labaké. She was also awarded a scholarship to participate in the YUNGAS Contemporary Art project coordinated by Raúl Flores (2014–2015).

In 2014, she received the award for Best Latin American Video Art at the VideoBabel Festival (Lima, Peru). As a result, she completed an artist residency at Intercambiador ACART (Madrid, Spain), with support from the Argentine Embassy.

In 2016, her work was included in the exhibition Congress of Tucumán: 200 Years of Argentine Art, a dialogue between works from the collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts and contemporary artists.

That same year, she received a Creation Grant from the National Fund for the Arts for her latest solo exhibition Restos de amor (“Remains of Love”). She was also selected by the Plataforma Futuro project of the National Ministry of Culture for the project Sublunar, a residency and night exhibition held in the Laguna Brava Nature Reserve, Corrientes.

The following year, she joined the teaching team for the Postgraduate Seminar (UNNE) Variations on the Body in the Languages of the Arts, directed by Dr. Adrián Cangi.

In 2018, she was a finalist for the Itaú Visual Arts Prize and presented a Latin American selection of PLAY video art at The Book Society (Seoul) and Barim Residence (Gwangju), South Korea.