{{short description|American artist}} '''Maya Stovall Dumas''' is an American conceptual artist and anthropologist. Stovall Dumas is best known for her use of ballet and public space in her art practice.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201802/maya-stovall-73689|title=Lisa John Rogers on Maya Stovall|website=www.artforum.com|date=February 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/arts/2018/02/21/artist-maya-stovall/110691616/|title=Liquor stores create frame for Detroit artist|website=Detroit News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/partners/moca-my-work-my-beliefs/artist-maya-stovall-talks-exploring-detroit-and-other-cities-through-her-work|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412021335/https://www.vice.com/en_us/partners/moca-my-work-my-beliefs/artist-maya-stovall-talks-exploring-detroit-and-other-cities-through-her-work|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 12, 2019|title=Artist Maya Stovall Talks Exploring Detroit and Other Cities Through Her Work|website=Vice|language=en|access-date=2019-04-11}}</ref> She is associate professor, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and lives and works in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cpp.edu/~ceis/liberal-studies/dr.-maya-stovall.shtml|title=Dr. Maya Stovall|website=www.cpp.edu|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref><ref name="Maya Stovall: Under New Ownership">{{Cite web|url=https://fortmason.org/event/maya-stovall/|title=Maya Stovall: Under New Ownership|website=Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref>
==Life and education== Maya Stovall Dumas was born in Detroit, Michigan.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/arts/design/here-comes-the-whitney-biennial-reflecting-the-tumult-of-the-times.html|title=Here Comes the Whitney Biennial, Reflecting the Tumult of the Times|first=Robin|last=Pogrebin|work=The New York Times |date=17 November 2016|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> She read her doctorate in anthropology at Wayne State University, supervised by Ph.D. committee chair Andrew D. Newman and dissertation advisors Lee D. Baker, Biba Bell, Stephen Chrisomalis, and Ariel Osterweis.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Liquor Store Theatre: Ethnography and Contemporary Art in Detroit - ProQuest |language=en |id={{ProQuest|2030525889}}}}</ref> She was born and grew up in Detroit, where she graduated from Cass Technical High School.<ref name=":0" /> She graduated from The University Of Chicago, where she studied economics at Chicago Booth, and Howard University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chicagobooth.edu/alumni/news-events/alumni-connections/2017/january|title=Alumni Connections - No. 149 - January 2017|website=The University of Chicago Booth School of Business|language=en|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Howard University|date=2004-01-01|title=The Bison: 2004|url=https://dh.howard.edu/bison_yearbooks/174|journal=Howard University Yearbooks|volume=81 }}</ref>
==Exhibitions== Maya Stovall Dumas's work was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whitney.org/Events/MayaStovallManifesto|title=Maya Stovall: MANIFESTO|website=whitney.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/arts/design/why-the-whitneys-humanist-pro-diversity-biennial-is-a-revelation.html|title=Why the Whitney's Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation|first=Roberta|last=Smith|work=The New York Times |date=16 March 2017|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> Her work was included in the 2017-2018 Studio Museum in Harlem 'F' Series installment, Fictions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.studiomuseum.org/press-release/fictions-artists-announced|title=Fictions Artists Announced|date=2017-09-02|website=The Studio Museum in Harlem|language=en|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/arts/design/fictions-review-studio-museum-in-harlem.html|title=From the Personal to the Political, 19 Artists to Watch Next Year|last=Cotter|first=Holland|date=2017-12-27|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-04-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nkuleko|first=Nkosi|date=2018|title=Mirror, Mirror: Nkosi Nkuleko after Maya Stovall|url=http://centerforjustice.columbia.edu/files/2018/04/Ekphrastic-Poetry-Booklet_v4-1.pdf|journal=Ekphrastic Poetry Reading}}</ref> Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Aka Artist Run (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada), <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://akaartistrun.com/portfolio-item/maya-stovall-compulsion-and-heart/|title=Maya Stovall: Compulsion and Heart|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Atlanta Contemporary,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://atlantacontemporary.org/exhibitions/vivid-memories-of-a-blurred-past|title=Vivid Memories of a Blurred Past|last=Studio|first=Familiar|website=Atlanta Contemporary|language=en-us|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/5503-urban-planning-contemporary-art-and-the-city-19662017|title=Graham Foundation > Grantees > Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis|website=www.grahamfoundation.org|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Cranbrook Art Museum,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/exhibition/maya-stovall-liquor-store-theatre-performance-films/|title=Maya Stovall: Liquor Store Theatre Performance Films|website=Cranbrook Art Museum|date=16 June 2017 |access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture,<ref name="Maya Stovall: Under New Ownership"/> Independent NYC,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2019/03/14/art-gallery-reyes-finn-birmingham-detroit-corktown/3155865002/|title=Corktown gallery Reyes Finn is latest arts exhibitor working in Detroit|website=Detroit Free Press|language=en|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Jessica Silverman Gallery (San Francisco), <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jessicasilvermangallery.com/year2017/|title=2017 {{!}} Jessica Silverman Gallery|website=jessicasilvermangallery.com|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Library Street Collective (Detroit),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lscgallery.com/homemade|title=HOMEMADE|website=Library Street Collective|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Maryland Institute College of Art,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.mica.edu/on-public-display-62336393b989|title=On Public Display|last=Art|first=Maryland Institute College of|date=2018-03-07|website=Maryland Institute College of Art|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2018/09/22/mocas-show-believe-rewards-our-faith-and-patience.html|title=MOCA's show Believe rewards our faith and patience {{!}} The Star|website=thestar.com|date=22 September 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Newbridge Projects (New Castle Upon Tyne, U.K.),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thenewbridgeproject.com/events/film-screening-performance-public-public-performance/|title={{!}} PMP {{!}} FILM SCREENING {{!}} Performance in Public / Public in Performance|website=The Newbridge Project|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Maya Stovall: A something = x|url=https://www.parraschheijnen.com/exhibitions/mayastovall|access-date=2021-09-23|website=parrasch heijnen gallery|language=en-US}}</ref> Pop Montreal,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://popmontreal.com/en/artists/detail/maya-stovall/|title=Maya Stovall - Pop Montreal|website=www.google.com|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Pulitzer Arts Foundation,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pulitzerarts.org/program/shell-and-glimpse/|title=Shell and Glimpse|website=Pulitzer Arts Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> Reyes | Finn (Detroit),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/show/reyes-projects-at-large-part-1-and-2|title=AT LARGE (Part 1 and 2) {{!}} REYES {{!}} FINN {{!}} Artsy|website=www.artsy.net|language=en|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> and the San Francisco Art Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfai.edu/exhibitions-public-events/detail/maya-stovall-under-new-ownership|title=Maya Stovall: Under New Ownership {{!}} SFAI|website=www.sfai.edu|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref>
==Collections== Maya Stovall Dumas's work is included in the collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,<ref>{{Cite web|title=2021 AHAN: Studio Forum Acquisitions {{!}} Unframed|url=https://unframed.lacma.org/2021/08/09/2021-ahan-studio-forum-acquisitions|access-date=2021-09-23|website=unframed.lacma.org|date=9 August 2021 }}</ref> Whitney Museum of American Art<ref name="whitneyCollection">{{cite web|url=https://www.whitney.org/artists/17731|title=Maya Stovall|website=www.whitney.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.culturetype.com/2018/09/28/whitney-museum-acquired-417-works-recently-faith-ringgold-derrick-adams-toyin-ojih-odutola-and-julie-mehretu-are-among-the-artists-represented/|title=Whitney Museum Acquired 417 Works Recently, Faith Ringgold, Derrick Adams, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Julie Mehretu are Among the Artists Represented|date=28 September 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> and the collection of the Cranbrook Art Museum.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.culturetype.com/2017/11/16/november-exhibitions-16-new-shows-feature-african-american-artists-nick-cave-ellen-gallagher-sam-gilliam-mark-bradford-nina-chanel-abney-kehinde-wiley-and-more/%27|title=November Exhibitions: 18 New Shows Feature African American Artists Nick Cave, Ellen Gallagher, Sam Gilliam, Mark Bradford, Nina Chanel Abney, Kehinde Wiley, and More|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref>
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