Mae Eskenazi (they/them)(b. 1997, Indianapolis, IN) is a visual artist and ritualist whose interdisciplinary approach extends across research-based, participatory, and collaborative projects ranging from lens-based media, sculpture, installation, and performance. Calling upon lineages of disabled/trans carework, Mae is interested in the embodied, fleshly, and material enmeshment of BDSM, the medical industrial complex, biopolitics, and disability. Their work explores the residue of discard, debilitation, and excess. They received an BA in Feminist and Gender Studies from Colorado College and are currently enrolled in the MFA program at The University of Pennsylvania.
Mae has been a resident at Pocoapoco (Oaxaca, MX), Picture Berlin (Berlin, DE), and Activation Residency (Woodridge, NY). They were a 2020-2021 participant of The Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program. Recently, they have performed at The Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx, NY) and exhibited at Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Automat Collective (Philadelphia, PA), gr_und (Berlin, DE), and Babycastles (Brooklyn, NY). Mae is the founder of the Disability, Debility, and Form Working Group at the University of Pennsylvania and the organizer of the 2023 GSWS Graduate Student Conference on Abolition.
