Maya Kramer was born in 1977 in Washington DC. She obtained her BFA in 2000 from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, and her MFA in 2006 from Hunter College in NYC. She is an Assistant Arts Professor of Visual Arts at NYU Shanghai and currently lives and works in Shanghai.
In her practice, Kramer has created sculptures, paintings and installations that probe the relationship between humans, 'landscape', and 'nature' in the age of the Anthropocene/Capitalocene. The artist has integrated recycled materials, pollutants, weather states, and, more recently, fossils and photochemical processes into pieces, mechanical installations, and tableaux that conjure beauty, estrangement, and loss. Time, entropy, and transience also figure prominently — increasingly framed through the collision of geological and human timescales — and are at times enacted in her oeuvre, serving as a reminder of the limits of human perspective.
