Maya Skarzenski is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and designer based in Toronto, Canada. She earned her BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University, where she was awarded the Mrs. W. O. Forsyth Award. In 2023, she was selected for the CIBC C2: Create and Curate program and in 2024 she was the artist in resident at Kunstraum in Brooklyn NY. She is collected by both corporate and private collects. "My artwork attempts to salvage beauty from the fear and unease surrounding the human body. Intimacy, contradiction, and material exploration in my work allow me to embrace ambiguity and dialectical thinking."