Lili Maya is an artist with a diverse background in art and design.

Lili graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in Digital + Media and a BFA in Graphic Design. Before making art the focus of her professional practice, Lili worked as a graphic designer for close to fifteen years developing projects for publishing, advertising and interactive media with clients such as Sony, Microsoft, Adidas and Chase Manhattan. At the time that Lili decided to return to school to pursue her interests in art, she was a design consultant focusing on design for interactive media at Scient Corporation - a pioneering internet startup during the dot-com boom.

As an artist, she has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and considers drawing to be at the core of her process. Drawing informs her approach to all media and emerging technologies both formally and conceptually. In 2009 Lili began working with artist James Rouvelle in New York as part of the Maya + Rouvelle artist duo. Their collaboration integrates traditional and emerging media into art objects, installations and performances.

Their sculptural and performative works have been shown in New York at The Montauk Club, The Crypt at the Church of the Intercession, Governors Island, and The Cooper-Hewitt. In Paris at The Palais de Tokyo, La Générale and Les Récollets. The Tectonics Festival in Glasgow, and in China at both the National Theater Academy and the Mercedez-Benz Arena, both in Shanghai.

Recent productions include an immersive, live staging of Monteverdi’s Vespers, a live stream featuring music of Raven Chacon and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and a Cinematic 360 production of award winning composer Christopher Trapani’s End Words, as performed by NY ensemble Ekmeles.

Lili is full time faculty in the Graphic Design department.