Maya Cia­r­roc­chi is a New York City-based inter­dis­ci­pli­nary artist work­ing across media in draw­ing, print­mak­ing, per­for­mance, and video. Her projects exca­vate dis­ap­peared his­to­ries as in her cur­rent work Site: Yizkor, where archi­tec­tur­al ren­der­ings of destroyed build­ings, maps of van­ished places, extant Yizkor books, and view­er con­tributed writ­ing become sources for doc­u­ment­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions of loss. Cia­r­roc­chi inves­ti­gates how dis­place­ment writes itself into gen­er­a­tional con­scious­ness through the lay­er­ing of archi­tec­ture, maps, and mem­o­ry in this work. The result­ing com­po­si­tions con­struct new, fan­tas­ti­cal spaces that offer pos­si­bil­i­ties for heal­ing and remembrance.

Cia­r­roc­chi has exhib­it­ed her work in such New York venues as Abrons Arts Cen­ter, Anthol­o­gy Film Archives, The Bronx Muse­um of the Arts, The Choco­late Fac­to­ry, Equi­ty Gallery, Kinescope Gallery, Micro­scope Gallery, and Smack Mel­lon, among oth­ers, and at Arti­sphere, (VA), Ham­mer Muse­um (CA), Bor­der­lines Film Fes­ti­val (UK), Mov­ing Pic­tures Fes­ti­val (CAN). She has received res­i­den­cies and fel­low­ships from the Barysh­nikov Arts Cen­ter, Bronx Muse­um of the Arts (AIM), LABA: A Lab­o­ra­to­ry for Jew­ish Cul­ture, Low­er Man­hat­tan Cul­tur­al Coun­cil (Process Space, Swing Space), Mac­Dow­ell, Mil­lay Arts, New York Artists Equi­ty, UCross, and Wave Hill (Win­ter Work­space). She has received fund­ing from foun­da­tions such as Bay and Paul, Foun­da­tion for Con­tem­po­rary Arts, Jerome Foun­da­tion, Mertz Gilmore, and project grants from Franklin Fur­nace Fund and MAP Fund. Cia­r­roc­chi received a 2020 BRIO Award from the Bronx Coun­cil on the Arts and a 2021 Trust for Mutu­al Under­stand­ing grant to bring Site: Yizkor to Poland.

Cia­r­roc­chi earned an MFA from the School of Visu­al Arts, New York, NY, and a BFA from SUNY Pur­chase, Pur­chase, NY.