MAYAH LOVELL
Instagram: @mayahlovell_art
Education
Poetry Field School, Elaine Khan, 2018-present
Warman School, LA Warman, 2020-present
John Hopkins University Jan 2019-2023
M.S. in Individualized Genomics and Health
Skills
prose, poetry
performance prose, sci-fi
Visual constructions of portraits and figures
Painting mediums: acrylic, oils, ink, watercolour
Drawing: graphite, ink, pencil
Sculpture: fabric, wire, modeling clay, wood, wax
Sound: vocal, instrumental, digital instrument, guitar
Exhibition and Collection
Group
The Invincible Visible - Transformer Annual Exhibition & Benefit Auction, 2023
Bat City Magazine, 2021
Relative Positions, Washington, D.C. 2019
Healing Outside from Within, Washington, D.C. 2019
Inspired Bodies, Washington, D.C., 2019
Salon de Libertad, Love + Solidarity Collective, Washington, D.C. 2019
Love + Solidarity Collective, Washington, D.C. 2019
LGBTQ+ Exhibit: SoHy Studio, Hyattsville, MD, 2019
Rebirth Exhibit: She/They, Frederick, MD, Aug 2019
She/They, Frederick, MD, Aug 2018
Solo
“Cum 2 My Bedroom,” Washington, D.C. 2019
Features and Curation
How Do We Gather Now?, WPAC 2023
To Imagine A form of Life, 2022
Bid to Fight COVID Art Auction, Art Shopping Network, 2021
Sumacurae, curator of reading fundraiser, 2020
Mutual Aid and Community Organizing
Writing
Readings
Stories Bookstore & Cafe, LA, 2022
Sophie Calle Exhibit, BK NY, 2021
DC Black Lives Matter, 2020
She/They, Frederick, MD, Aug 2019
Inspired Bodies, Washington, D.C., 2019
Salon de Libertad, Love + Solidarity Collective, Washington, D.C. 2019
Spit Dat DC, 2018
She/They, Frederick, MD, Aug 2018
Prose Performances
Phanto at Pieter Space, LA, 2023
Sophie Calle Exhibit Installation, NY 2021
Concurrency ii, Washington, D.C. 2019
Virgo New Moon Retreat, Baltimore MD, 2019
DC Dyke Fest, Washington, D.C. May 2019
Mad Ox, College Park, MD, 2017
Published in:
dykes day, a holigay by hermetic state,
coven poetry, mixed mag, peach fuzz mag
stone of madness press, wussy mag, bat city review
Chapbooks
(Soma)tic Horoscope Poetry Exercises, Hermetic State, 2022
sextile Sun - mars, 2019
-88 opposition venus, 2017
Vendor Events
Summer Camp, 2023
Dew Drop Inn Holiday Market, Washington D.C 2022
Pancakes and Booze, Washington D.C. 2022
DC Dyke Fest, Washington, D.C. May 2019
Chaand Raat, Washington, D.C. 2019
Affiliations and Memberships
Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities
Art x Action, College Park, MD
DC Dyke March
Mayah Lovell is a Black lesbian latinx from suburban-area D.C. Her artistry roots in Caribbean transcendence beside Black queer ancestors and awakens by practice in fantasy, neo-erotica, and ritualism. She is a first-generation descendant of Caribbean servitude–her matriarchal lineage is birthed in “Canal Zone,” originally Rainbow City, Panamá by way of Barbados; and her patriarchal lineage is birthed in Kingston, Jamaica. It is in Caribbean knowledge where she learned the wisdom of redemption, abolition, and survival in spirituality.
Through self-taught and Black ancestral education, she has curated, exhibited and performed art in D.C., NY, LA, Connecticut, Philly, Baltimore, and online, while fostering, teaching, and holding community for artists and creatives. Her work was selected for The Invincible Visible - Transformer’s 19th Annual Exhibition & Benefit Auction and Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery. Mayah was a Wherewithal Grantee of 116 applicants for 2021-2022 for multimedia project, “dykes day a holigay,” and a Keystone Listener for WPADC’s “How Do We Gather Now?” 2023 event. Her prose poetry lives in Peach Fuzz Mag, Coven Poetry, Stone of Madness Press, Hermetic State, and Nueoi Press through her debut 2023 chapbook, Phanto.
