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PROFILE
Meet Maia Chao, the Art World Anthropologist Making Her Whitney Biennial Debut

by Simon Wu in Art In America, March 4, 2026.

REVIEW
Maia Chao Performs the Museum

by Clara Maria Apostolatos in Hyperallergic, May 12, 2026.

PROFILE
Artists Maia Chao’s Anthropological Performances

by Jenny Wu in The Amp, May 11, 2026.

PROFILE
For the Whitney Biennial, Maia Chao Turns the Museum Visit into the Subject

by Brittnay Proctor in Cultbytes, May 12, 2026.

REVIEW
The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial

by Aruna D’Souza, in Hyperallergic. March 5, 2026.

REVIEW
The Whitney Biennial Swaps Identity Politics for Infrastructural Interventions. The Verdict: All Systems Go.

by Emily Watlington in Art in America, March 1, 2026.

REVIEW
Maia Chao: BEING MOVED at the Whitney

by Asia Stewart in IMPULSE, May 30, 2026.

REVIEW
In American Idle, An Urban Aorta Dramatized

by Billy McEntee in Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2025.

REVIEW
Noa Weiss on American Idle by Maia Chao choreographed by Lena Engelstein

by Noa Weiss in CultureBot, August 28, 2025.

REVIEW
In American Idle, An Urban Aorta Dramatized

by Billy McEntee in Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2025.

INTERVIEW
Maia Chao and Lena Engelstein in conversation with Nora Raine Thompson

by Nora Raine Thompson in CultureBot, August 1, 2025.

INTERVIEW
Relationship Advice: Maia Chao by Simon Wu

by Simon Wu in BOMB Magazine, February 21, 2020.

INTERVIEW
A Unique Program Pays You to Visit Museums as a Guest Critic

by Laura Raicovich in Hyperallergic, June 27, 2019.

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