Artist Bio

Maya Ciarrocchi

(Bio as of October 2012)

Maya Ciarrocchi recently collaborated with the Goodman on the 2012 production of Crowns. She is a New York–based video artist and projection designer. She has created videos for performance with Merce Cunningham, Ping Chong, Bebe Miller and Donna Uchizono, among others, and for regional theaters throughout the country. Her work has been exhibited in New York at chashama, The Chocolate Factory, New York Live Arts, Westbeth Gallery and Sasha Wolf Gallery; regionally at Artisphere in Virginia and the Hammer Museum in Califor­nia and internationally at Borderlines Film Festival in the UK and the Moving Pictures Festival in Toronto, Canada. Ms. Ciarrocchi has completed residencies from the Kala Art Institute, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Ucross Foundation, and was awarded a Bessie Award in 2006 for video design in performance. Ms. Ciarrocchi earned a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase and an MFA in computer art from the School of Visual Arts.