Photo by Francesca Chudnoff

Maia “Meech” Boakye is an artist and illustrator currently studying at the University of Toronto to receive a Bachelor of Arts in fine art and architecture. Their illustrative work explores life at the margins, playing with colour and magical realism to create narratives. Their studio work examines a post-internet, neoliberal world, often juxtaposing the mundane and the absurd.

Find more of my work on Instagram and for inquires, please contact maia.boakye@gmail.com.

Skittles / Spotify / Facebook / NPR / OUT / The Globe & Mail / The Financial Times / TED / Grazia UK / VICE / Shondaland

Selected Interviews & Press

Recipient of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design Undergraduate Award, 2017

Relevant Experience & Speaking

University of Toronto Ad Summit 2018, Creative Design Panel
Senior Designer, Blank Canvas Gallery, 2017-Present
Design Intern, VICE, 2017 (See Work)

Exhibitions & Residencies

Upcoming Group Show, Suburban Psychosis, Fall 2019
Upcoming Residency, Trinity Square Video, Summer 2019
Upcoming Group Show, Tondo, Antler Gallery x Spoke Art, 2019
Upcoming Group Show, Colour Code Print, 2019
Group Show, Myseum Intersections: Revisionist Toronto x Blank Canvas, TMAC, 2019
Group Screening, Video Fever, Trinity Square Video, 2019
Group Show, Eyeball, U of Toronto: Daniels, 2018
Group Show, Art for Change, SOHO House, 2018
Group Show, U of Toronto Shelley Peterson Exhibition, 2018
Group Show, Hatch Gallery, 2017