Maya Wilson-Sánchez

Maya Wilson-Sánchez is a curator and a current PhD Candidate in Art History and Archeology at Columbia University. Her work centers on the development, movement, and exchange of art across the Americas. Wilson-Sánchez’s writing can be found in various publications including The Senses and Society Journal, The Journal of Visual Culture, Contemporary HUM, PUBLIC Journal, and the book Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada. Wilson-Sánchez was an Editorial Resident at Canadian Art, a Curatorial Resident at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and an Associate Editor at C Magazine. They were the 2020 recipient of the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators and a 2021 participant at the Tate Intensive in London, UK. She curated Intra-Action: Live Performance Art (2016, 2017) at Xpace Cultural Centre, Living Room (2017) at the Royal Ontario Museum, and Grounding (2020) at the Art Gallery of Guelph. Most recently, she served as one of the main curators for Toronto’s Year of Public Art, curating the 2021-2022 exhibition series I am Land, and the 2023-2024 show Replicas and Reunions: Ancient and Contemporary Ceramics from Ecuador at the Gardiner Museum.