Maya Beverly (b. Atlanta, GA) a New York-based artist working primarily in sculpture and ceramics. Her practice draws on research, references to culturally significant objects from memory, historical and personal archives, and a thematic exploration of mythologies and cosmologies, to investigate the power of objects, positionality, and animism. Using hand-building techniques like coil-building and slab-making as a foundation, Beverly incorporates materials such as gold-leaf, concrete, pvc, and paint to investigate how objects often extend beyond their materiality, communicating something unseen.

Maya Beverly received her BFA from New York University in Studio Art. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally, including in the United Kingdom, Nigeria, South Africa, and Mexico. In 2024, she was named one of “29 Emerging Black Artists to Discover” by Artsy. She has held ceramic and book-making residencies at Women’s Studio Workshop, The Archie Bray Foundation, The Center for Book Arts and Ox-Bow School of the Arts. Beverly’s work is held in several public collections and libraries, including Apple Music, Princeton University’s Graphic Art Collection and The Metropolitan Museum of Art's, Thomas J. Watson Library. Her work will be featured in Black Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art by Dr. Jareh Das, published by Yale University Press (2027).