Photo by Sabrina Fazai
about
Noann Maia (b. 1998, San Francisco, California) is an American-Brazilian artist. Part of his life was spent in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil, and he currently resides in Miami, Florida. Maia is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice moves fluidly between mediums, allowing materials and processes to bleed into one another. Receiving his BFA (2027) at New World School of the Arts, Maia’s work concentrates on construction — the materiality of the metaphysical; time — how duration grants agency for revealing decay or fabrication; and variables — reflecting on the volatility of life. His recent exhibitions include what comes next? Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL (2026) Sustaining Ecologies, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL (2025), and a group exhibition, Assembly Points, Art Basel week at The Koubek Center, Miami, FL (2024).
ARTIST STATMENT
I am a multidisciplinary artist whose process is curiosity-driven and investigative. Through existentialism and the absurd, I explore life by examining moments of pause and our relationship to them.
My work is grounded in four interconnected ideas: time, construction and deconstruction, variables, and ontological structures. These allow me to see the world as a series of constructed structures. I am intrigued by the characteristics and relationships of structures and their materials, questioning how they are formed, transformed, and given meaning. I see time as a revelatory quality that exposes truth, deception, decay, and construction.
I explore how materials interact and induce change, and how smaller structures come together to form something beyond their individual parts. I construct my own substrates as a way to investigate these relationships, using them to examine how time imposes itself on structures and objects.
I also collect “found objects” that exist across physical, metaphysical, and virtual worlds. I am drawn to objects through their symbolism, materiality, or aesthetics, using them as points of departure for further investigation.