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Olivia Maday is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working in video, sound, and installation. Maday holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Maday's work challenges the historic objectification of the female body, subverting gendered power dynamics and celebrating women's bodies as sites of empowerment, resistance, and pleasure. By employing the dichotomy between seduction and repulsion, she dismantles traditional narratives surrounding femininity and sexuality. Through on-screen performance, Maday asserts her own subjectivity in the film and media landscape, highlighting the dynamic nature inherent in women.

Maday has been supported by a variety of grants, including the Cambridge Art Association's Becker Emergency Grant, the Montague International Travel Grant, and the Hamburg Exchange Fellowship, which provided her with a five month residency in Hamburg, Germany. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions internationally, including at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany, and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, South Korea. In 2023, she held her first solo exhibition, Fleisch, at Mission Hill Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts, and is scheduled to exhibit at Living Arts of Tulsa in Summer 2025. Maday served as the Post-Graduate Teaching Fellow in Curatorial Practice and Media Arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and currently teaches in the Digital Media Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.