Born in 1989 in Río de Janeiro, Brasil.

Lives and works in New York.

Maíra Senise is a multimedia artist that while living in her natal city worked as a fashion designer parallel to developing her own artworks, working mainly with oil painting and ceramics. 

In 2015 she moved to New York, where she has been producing a solid body of artworks that is an extension of the sculptures and paintings that she started in Brazil. Maíra has participated in group shows in Río de Janeiro and Sao Paulo and had a solo show in Casamata, an art gallery for emerging artists in Río de Janeiro. Maíra currently works in pieces that portray weird and mysterious worlds using universal symbols and hybrid creatures figures.