MARIA (b. Pierre, SD) is a Guatemalan/American multimedia artist and vocalist based in London. She creates fantastical sculptural installations, performances, video and sound through merging digital and handdone processes. Her work is informed by her experiences as a racialized, chronically ill, queer high femme living through capitalist and imperialist climate change and technodoom. Deeply influenced by speculative worlds, femme fatales, storytelling, and the gothic, her oeuvre is characterized by a strong connection to the chthonic and political. With each piece, MARIA creates different universes based on alternate political structures and worldviews built on the ashes of empire. Her memories and bodymind with its endless potentials and failures serve as a conduit, avatar, and muse. She combines and remixes natural and digital materials to engineer and imagine radical bodily connections between cyber and organic networks as sites for liberatory seeds. MARIA is also known for her work as both karaoke host and lead singer of the gothic dance band Evil

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She has recently completed a solo presentation at Material Art Fair in Mexico City where she was featured in Time Magazine: Mexico, PlasterMagazine, and Fetch Mag. Maria is currently working towards her first solo institutional show at BWA Wrocław, opening July 2026.

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