Maya Attean
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TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Penobscot
MEDIUM: Photography
BIOGRAPHY
Maya Tihtiyas Attean (b. 1994) is a Wabanaki artist living in Portland, Maine or Machigonne, raised on the Penobscot Reservation. Her work reflects her ancestry, resilience, and connection to the natural world. Through exploring the duality she embodies within the colonized world she exists within, she marries mediums and techniques of multiple cultures to create new realities and possibilities within her work. Maya earned her BFA within Photography from Maine College of Art & Design in 2023. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art and the Abbe Museum.
