Maya Rodrigo-Abdi is an emerging art historian, curator and artist based in Vancouver, BC. She will complete her undergraduate degree in art history from the University of British Columbia in the spring of 2022. Her research interests primarily revolve around the objectification and commodification of femininity in modern and contemporary art. Some of her favourite artworks at the moment are Kira Wu’s Fortune Teller, Jin-me Yoon’s Group of Sixty-Seven, and Camille Turner’s Miss Canadiana: Red, White, and Beautiful Tour. In her work, Maya explores themes surrounding her lived experiences as a mixed woman of colour. She also finds inspiration from shopping mall aesthetics, the music of Mitski, and reality television from the 2000s and early 2010s.
