Maia Charlotte Ibar

Maïa Evarista Charlotte Ibar is a French/Basque-American multidisciplinary artist working across painting, video, installation, sound, and performance. She received her MFA in Painting from The New York Studio School and studied at Pratt Institute, Parsons Paris, and The Mountain School of Arts. In 2014, she co-founded Pioche Projects, a gallery and artist studio space and wellness residency in Biarritz, where she curates interdisciplinary projects bridging creative, scientific, and spiritual practices.

She has collaborated with the Basque Cultural Institute, co-curated X Marks the Spot: Women of the New York Studio School, and taught at ESAPB (École supérieure d'art Pays Basque). Her work, held in private collections internationally, explores artistic process as ritual, navigating subconscious states and the tension between balance and disruption as a way of connecting to unseen forces that shape human experience.