Maia Chao is an artist making anthropological work across performance, video, sculpture, and public practice. ​Chao has made commissions for the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Times Square Arts, The Shed, and MoMA Education. Her projects have been presented at the RISD Museum, Bronx Museum, Mural Arts Philadelphia, Boston Center for the Arts, Tufts University Art Galleries, Smack Mellon, and Oregon Contemporary. She has completed fellowships and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, Pioneer Works, and Queer|Art, among others.

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Named a Pew Fellow in 2022, Chao attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2023. She is based in Philadelphia and is currently full time faculty of Interdisciplinary Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). 

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She is currently a United States Artist Fellow (2026) and she will present a performance commission at the 2026 Whitney Biennial.

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maiachaos(at)gmail.com / @maia.pologies