Maya Suess, born on a small island of the coast of western Canada, today lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA in Media Arts from Emily Carr Institute, and an MFA in contemporary performance from Simon Fraser University. She has exhibited in galleries, film festivals, theaters and underground sites in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan. As of April 2009, she is working on her upcoming work “It It and the Gimme Box,” for which she received a 2009 Independent Artist’s Production Grant from The New York State Council on the Arts.