Maya Hewitt
United Kingdom, 1981
Artist's works
Artist Profile
Memorial
Introduction and Experience
Maya Hewitt (b. 1981, London, UK) is a contemporary British artist and a graduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. She is known for her highly narrative paintings, in which she weaves together Eastern and Western cultural symbols, historical imagery, and subconscious psychological landscapes to construct visual theaters that hover between reality and dream.
Her practice explores themes of memory, power, cultural heritage, and the reconstruction of identity. Through meticulous brushwork and a deliberate sense of emotional distance, Hewitt creates compositions that function as acts of psychological archaeology—reassembling fragments fractured by history and time to reveal the emotional residues and underlying tensions beneath the surface of civilization.
Exhibitions and Awards
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2023–2024
Flutterings —Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Maternal —Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Artwork for Burial’s Antidawn EP
2020
Cross My Heart —Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2019
Fare well —Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Artwork for Burial’s album: Tunes 2011 to 2019
2017
Shed our Skins —Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2015
Circling One Another —Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2014
The Forgiven Ghost In Me —Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
10 Chancery Lane—Hong Kong
2012
Territorial Shadows —Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK
2011
FireEyes —Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
10 Chancery Lane—Hong Kong
2010
Nocturne —Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK
Stones in Paws (Collaboration with Yoshiyo Abe)—Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
2008
New Tokyo Contemporaries—Tokyo, Japan
Our Immortal Souls —Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK
2007
Underbelly Skirmishes —Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Mending Fences —Run Gallery, London, UK
From Tokyo From London (With Kazuyuki Takezaki)—Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
2006
The Janitors and their Sheltered Province —Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2021
FOREVERMORE PART 1 & 2 : 15 Year Anniversary Exhibition—Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Art is not a competition —Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
2014
Holy and Profane —Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan
A’rebours —Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK
2012
Everywhere and Nowhere: Reydan Weiss Collection —Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf, Germany
2011
Happy Mind —Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Passion Fruits —ME Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Elusive Dreams —Irish Museum of Contemporary Art (IMOCA), Dublin, Ireland
2009
Tokyo New Contemporaries—Tokyo, Japan
Stripe, Dots and Skulls In Assorted Shapes, Colours and Sizes —Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Geba Geba —Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Elusive Dreams —La Cathedrale, Paris, France
Parabiosis —Soka Art Center, Beijing / Taipei
Art Fairs
2018
CONDO London—Union Pacific, London, UK
2017
Frieze London 2017—Regent's Park, London, UK
2009
Art Fair Tokyo (Solo Booth)—Tokyo, Japan
Collections
Public Collections
Heartbeat —Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Private Collections
Private collections in Taiwan, Japan, and Germany