Maya Florey
Large Whale Sculpture
Large Whale Sculpture
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Ceramic stoneware, handbuilt
Maya Florey (they/them/theirs) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist specializing in large-scale biomorphic ceramic installations. Maya received a BFA in Visual Arts with a specialization in Ceramics from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2023, where they were a recipient of the John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Visual Arts. Since graduating, they have been teaching at arts centres and community studios and working at a craft co-op. They have taken part in multiple group shows and in 2024, received the Carole Badgely Emerging Artist Award. In 2025, Maya completed a six month FLEX Artist Residency at Medalta in Medicine Hat, Alberta, thanks to the support of the Micki MacKenzie Educational Craft Bursary and the Canada Council for the Arts. Florey currently lives and works on the unceded territory of the Snaw-Naw-As, Snuneymuxw and Stz’uminus First Nations.
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CCBC acknowledges that the land on which we work is the unceded shared traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.