Maia Conran

Biography

Maia Conran’s research interrogates the structural forms of film and photography production and disstribution. Her artworks challenge the politics of these infrastructures and seek to offer a critical and collaborative methodology of resistance. Through movement, voice, and collage she leverages the everyday to reflect on institutional power structures.

Residencies have been instrumental to devloping Maia ‘s artwork. She has been selected for residencies in the National Slate Museum of Wales, Cardiff Contemporary Arts Festival, Kingsgate Workshops, London, Standpoint, London, and at Station in Bristol.

Maia has exhibited extensively in collaborative and group exhibitions internationally. Her work has also been selected for international awards, film festivals, group exhibitions, screenings. Her solo exhibitions include Grand Union (Birmingham), G39 (Cardiff), IMT Gallery, Kingsgate Workshops (both London), Phoenix Gallery (Exeter) Bristol Diving School (collaboratively as Conran and Haimes) and Skelf online project space. A single screen version of her multi-screen film Term was published on DVD by Filmarmalade and her work is the subject of a monograph entitled Here is the Yard published by Grand Union Gallery. Her screenplay Monkey Puzzle was a podcast for Quote Unquote in 2020.

Maia is the Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography at Camberwell College of Art and the Horniman and UAL Museum Arts Fellow, she is currenty completing her PhD in Film Practice at Queen Mary Univeristy of London.