MAYAH MONET LOVELL
Instagram: @mayahmonet_art
Education
Self-taught artist- 2013 to present
Poetry Field School, 2018-present
M.S. Individualized Genomics and Health,
Biotechnology, John Hopkins University -2023
Exhibition
Solo
A Moment in Time: Polyptchs & other New Experiments, D.C., 2025
Come 2 My Bedroom, D.C., 2019
Group
Where the Light Falls, Goldman Art Gallery, 2026
Reflections, Past & Present, Kensington Mansion, 2026
Everything is Art! Virtual Exhibition, 2025
Collaborate / kəˈlabəˌrāt, Gallery Y, D.C., 2025-2026
Spasm [embodied resistance] in partnership with All Mutable, Vox Populi, 2025
Mastermind, The Compound, 2024
Exhibiting Failure, Rhizome, D.C., 2024
By Every Means, Aya Art Collective, D.C., 2024
The Invincible Visible - Transformer Annual Exhibition & Benefit Auction, 2023
Messy in the Garden, The Compound 2024
Relative Positions, D.C. 2019
Healing Outside from Within, D.C., 2019
Inspired Bodies, D.C., 2019
Salon de Libertad, Love + Solidarity Collective, D.C., 2019
LGBTQ+ Exhibit: SoHy Studio, Hyattsville, MD, 2019
Rebirth Exhibit: She/They, Frederick, MD, Aug 2018
Features and Curation
dykes day, a holigay, 2022-2023
To Imagine A form of Life, 2022
Cooperative Arts Cohort, 2021-2023
Bid to Fight COVID Art Auction, Art Shopping Network, 2021
Sumacurae, curator of reading fundraiser, 2020
Mutual Aid, Events and Community Organizing-2014 to present
Writing Publications
Full-length
Ecosystems of Woman and Devotion – Discount Guillotine, 2026
Chapbooks - solo
(Soma)tic Horoscope Poetry Exercises, Hermetic State, 2023
sextile sun - mars, 2019
-88 opposition venus, 2017
Journals and Magazine Publications:
Sextet - Issue #1 Future/Past, UK, 2025
Discount Guillotine - Issue #2, US, 2025
dykes City Dispatch (co-editor) - Hermetic State, 2025-present
Jazz as Poetry, Stone of Madness Press Issue 30, 2025
How can We Gather Now? —Washington Project for the Arts, 2025
Whitney Review of New Writing- Issue 001, 002, 005
Lower Grand Radio -Spit in the Ocean #19–2023
dykes day a holigay, dinner party zine, dykes city dispatch,
Hermetic State, 2022-present
Sissy Anarchy, UK
Amygdala Journal,
Coven Poetry, Mixed Mag, Peach Fuzz Mag
Stone of Madness Press, Wussy Mag, Bat City Review
Awards
Honorable Mention in Mixed Media, juried exhibition, 2026
Andy Wharhol Wherewithal Grant, 2021-2022
Workshops
Writing an Ekphrasis, A Moment in Time Exhibit, DC, 2025
Select Press
Vox Populi event, S&M performance, 2025
Poet Talk on WMUA radio, 2025
Spit in the Ocean #19 - audio performance - 2024
Poetry Field School Alumni Spotlight, 2024
Rhizome Poetry Reading event, 2024
Interview: Healing Canvas, Exploring Transformative Pathways, 2023
Featured mention of collaborative playwright, 2023
Poetry Prose Feature with Mixed Mag, 2023
Sissy Anarchy #2 Coverage, 2023
Transformers Benefit Auction, 2023
To Imagine A form of Life Event, WPADC, 2022
Wherewithal Recipient Announcements, 2022
Memberships
Capitol Hill Art Leage (CHAL)
Montgomery Art Association (MAA)
Art Leage of Germantown (ALOG)
Mayah Monet Lovell is an award winning Caribbean-American transdisciplinary artist, writer, and scientist. Raised between DC and MD, Mayah is a first-generation descendant of Caribbean servitude—with matriarchal lineage birthed in “Canal Zone,” originally Rainbow City, Panamá by way of Barbados, and patriarchal lineage in Jamaica via the Cayman Islands. Grounded in self-taught and ancestral education, she has exhibited visual and performance work from her ongoing research and exhibition series Body as a Landscape across the greater Washington area, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, New England, and elsewhere, cultivating sustainable community and economic liberation among artists and creatives through events, mutual aid, and social justice initiatives.
This work has been shown at Gallery Y, 52 o St, Vox Populi Gallery, Washington Project for the Arts, The Compound, Transformer, Rhizome, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, and Poetic Research Bureau, among others. In 2022, she was a Wherewithal Project Grant award recipient for her curated work and has taught writing workshops in art spaces. Mayah has publications nationally and internationally, with authorship through Test Pie Press (Oct 2025), Nueoi Press (2023), Hermetic State (2023), and forthcoming as a finalist with Discount Guillotine (2026). Currently, she has DC-based art exhibitions with work for sale at at Goldman Art Gallery and Kensington Mansion.
