Maya Watanabe is a visual artist and filmmaker who works with video installations. She has had recent exhibitions at, among other places: De Pont Museum, Tilburg (2021), MAXXI Museum, Rome (2019); MALI – Museo de Arte de Lima (2019); Rose Art Museum, Massachusetts (2019); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto (2017); Das Fridericianum, Kassel (2016); and Matadero, Madrid (2014). Her work has been shown at various art biennials and internationally, including Videobrasil, the 13th
Havana Biennial, Asian Art Biennial, the 2nd Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition and the Beijing Biennial. She has also collaborated as audiovisual art director for stage productions in Peru, Spain, Austria and Italy. Watanabe lives and works in Amsterdam where she teaches at the Rietveld Academie. She is currently a PhD researcher at Goldsmiths College (University of London), Departments of Visual Cultures.