Maya Fuhr (b. 1989) is a Victoria-born, Los–Angeles based multimedia artist. Her images and world-building installations interrogate the role of iconography in photography and consumer culture through her subjects’ expressions of their identity.
Trained in film, Fuhr learned to consider what lies beyond the frame to be as crucial to the narrative as what’s within the frame. Her early analog film photography taught her the importance of anticipation, whether developing film or working with latex imprints; each step involves a careful, laborious gesture of image-making. Her work ranges from culture-defining celebrity portraiture to influential advertising and fashion editorials, responding to photography’s evolving role in an increasingly commercialized culture.
Her notable solo exhibitions, presented both internationally and across Canada, include Garbage Girls (2016, Artemisia Gallery, Tel Aviv), Malleable Privilege (2017, 10 Years Ago Gallery, Toronto), Curb the Hub (2016, Gallery On Wade, Toronto), Compersion (2023, SADE Gallery, Los Angeles), Meet Me Under The Streetlight (2025, The Berlin Fotografiska Building, Berlin) and Idols of Absence (2025, Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto) which expands her interest in silhouettes, glamour, and constructed identity.
Fuhr’s work has been shown at Patel Brown (Toronto), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Museum of Avant-Garde (Switzerland) and SADE Gallery (Los Angeles), and in art fairs including NADA (New York) and Art Toronto. In her editorial practice, she has photographed for brands such as Chanel and Coach, and has been recognized multiple times by the Canadian Art and Fashion Awards and The Museum of Avant-Garde, as well as being awarded The Magenta Foundation Photography Project Award in 2017.
