Maya Hayda is a Ph.D. student in Art & Archaeology. Her research interests are rooted in transnational questions of ecology, materiality, poetics, extraction, and technology in modern and contemporary art.
She has worked as a curator with Artists Space, Canal Projects, Frappant, and PS122 Gallery. Since 2023, she has been a member of the curatorial group and research laboratory, Collective Rewilding. The collective proposes critical new examinations and optical perspectives to help unpack histories of resistance, knowledge exchange, and networks of artistic solidarity against colonial and Anthropocenic power structures. She is also the founder and curator of internodes / міжвузля. This web-based platform brings together Ukrainian multidisciplinary practitioners to reflect on how kinship is being defined and redefined in the face of war, displacement, and ecocide.
Hayda received a B.A. in Art History and English from Wesleyan University in 2021.