Contact : maiaflore(at)gmail.com
Born in 1988, Maia lives and works between French Catalonia and California.
A graduate of École des Gobelins, she integrates her own moving body into images that form a poetic, humorous dialogue with reality.
Winner of the 2015 HSBC Photography Prize, her work is shown internationally and held in major collections such as the Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Fondation de France, Opéra national de Paris, and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. She studied at Le Fresnoy and has published three books: Rememories (Actes Sud, 2015), D’îles en Lune (ContreJour, 2020) and Fou Rire, Rêve Fou (Octopus, 2024).
As an artistic director, she creates visual projects for cultural, sports, and luxury clients (Louis Vuitton, Four Seasons, Institut Français…). Her latest commission, unveiled in September 2025, spans an entire hotel in Toulouse —from the lobby to the rooftop—through site-specific creations developed for the 17th floors of the building
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2026 Au lieu de ce monde, Festival Chemin de Photos, invitée d’honneur
2024 Fou rire, rêve fou Matmut pour les Arts, France
Magique ! Opéra d’Avignon, France2023 Scenes from the Sun, Themes + Projects Gallery, San Francisco
Maia Flore, Bretagne, France2022 Images vagues, idées claires Beijing, invited by Institut Français, China
2021 Les saisons de Maia Flore, Galerie 5, Quand les fleurs nous sauvent, Paris
2020 Flowing in Stillness, Themes+Projects San Francisco
Iles en Lune, Esther Woerdehoff Gallery
Iles en Lune, Saint-Malo ( Public installation )2019 By the Sea, Ambassade de France, Buenos Aires ( Public installation )
2018 Au lieu de ce monde , Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
Play Time, Themes+Projects Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Institut Français, Mongolia2017 Voyage Fantastique, Institut Français, Moscow, Russie ( public installation )
Voyage Fantastique, DIFC Dubai ( public installation )
Voyage Fantastique, Institut Français, Ahmedabad, India
Voyage FantastiqueInstitut Français, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Voyage FantastiqueInstitut Français, Budapest, Hungary
Château de Carrouges, France
Les Songes Immobiles, Bretagne France2016 L’enchantement va de soi, Planche Contacts, Deauville, France
Voyage Fantastique, Olympic Games Public Installation, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Voyage Fantastique Institut Français world tour :) Brasilia, Tokyo, Copenhague, Hanoi, Fukuoka, Florianópolis, Dunhuang, Chine
Voyage Fantastique, Shinsegye Gallery, Séoul, South Korea2015 Voyage Fantastique, Clos Lucé, France
Alliance Française, Brusselles
Institut National de Langue, Luxembourg
Voyage Fantastique, Institut français of Amsterdam, Madrid, Barcelona2014 Sleep Elevations, Modernbook Gallery, San Francisco
Voyage Fantastique, Institut français, Milan and Roma
Voyage Fantastique, Bercy Village, ( public installation ) Paris, France
Voyage Fantastique, Emmanuel Fremin Galerie, New York, Etats Unis2013 Sleep Elevations and others stories, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Wisconsin
2012 Sleep Elevations, Galerie Madé, Paris, France
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2026 Gumersind Gomila, Galerie des Hospices, Canet
2025 Biennale d’Ostende, Belgique
Cargo, les photographiques de Saint-Nazaire France
Univers 2025, Les Franciscaines, Deauville FR
2024 La Vague, Musée de Campredon France2023 Champions, championnes, for Paris 2024 ( French Embassy tour )
2022 Merignac Photo Festival
2021 W.O.W, curated by Kiki Castel Gallery XII, Los Angeles USA
2020 Festival La Gacilly in Vienna, Austria
2019 Gacilly festival of photography, France
Ooshoot Award, Magasins Généraux, Paris
Quand les fleurs nous sauvent, Le Purgatoire, Paris 92018 Panorama 21, Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains, France
Paris photo, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, France
Floraisons, La belle Juliette, Paris, France
Two artists show, La belle Juliette, Paris France2017 Proyecta Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Festival Paraty em Foco, Paraty, Brasil
Nuit de la Photographie Chaux-de-Fond, Switzerland
Phenomenon, Bolinas Museum, USA
AIPAD Photo Fair, New York, USA2016 AIPAD Photo fair, New York, USA
Théâtre de Gap, France2015 Prix HSBC Musée de la Photographie de Lille, France
Prix HSBCGalerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris France
Prix HSBCL’Arsenal, Metz, France
Prix HSBC Galerie Le Reverbère, Lyon, France
Prix HSBCMusée de la Photographie of Mougins, France2014 The enigmatic object, Filter Festival, Chicago IL, USA
The Art of Work, Newspace Center For Photography, Portland OR, USA2013 Sony Word Photography, Somerset House, Londres, UK
Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury VT, USA
Project Basho gallery, Philadelphia PA, USA
Gextophoto, Spain
Fototropia Gallery, Guatemala2012 Biennale des Créateurs d’Images, Cité de la Mode et du Design, France
Les Photographiques, Festival de l’Image du Mans, Le Mans, France2011 Rencontres d’Arles, International photography festival, Le Magasin de Jouets Galerie, Arles, France
Les Photaumnales festival, Beauvais, France
Fotografia Festival, Reggio Emilia, Italie
Circulation(s), Festival de la jeune photographie européenne, Paris, France -
2026 - Communication Arts Photography ( Editorial category )
2020 - L’Art à l’Ouest, France
2016 - PDN30, USA
2016 - Arteless residency, Finland
2015 - Prix HSBC pour la Photographie Photographers to follow by TIME USA
2013 - Kala Art Institute residency, Berkeley, CA
2013 - Sony World Photography Awards, Conceptual Photographer London, UK
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Fou Rire, Rêve Fou Editions Octopus 2024
Iles en Lune, ContreJour Editions, 2020
Rememories, Actes Sud Editions 2015
Planches Contact 2016, Filigranes Editions -
Mc Evoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
Les Franciscaines, Deauville, France
HSBC, France
Opéra de Paris, France
Bolinas Museum, California
Musée de la photographie Nicéphore Niepce, France
Fondation de France
Artotheque de Rome, Italy
