Artist Name: Maya McGlynn
Residency Dates: September – October 2025
Born: 1999
From: New Jersey
Lives & Works: NYC
URL: maya-mcglynn.com
Education:
2023 – Master of Architecture, the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons School of Design / The New School
2021 – Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architectural Design, the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons School of Design / The New School
Bio/Statement:
Maya McGlynn is a New York-based designer and educator whose work centers around reclaimed and bio- based materials, understanding their relation to the built and unbuilt environments surrounding her. McGlynn maintains a parallel artistic practice in drawing and sculpture, examining connections between the physical body and the natural world. Her work experiments with overlaps in form, behavior, and variability of the natural materials she employs, including found objects and marine bio-materials. Working across a range of media she explores how objects and their interdependent structures, both organic and manufactured, can be supported, connected, and modified. She responds to the tension that emerges when materials are made to behave in unexpected ways. She currently co-teaches the Street Seats Design/Build course at Parsons School of Design.
In addition to her teaching, McGlynn co-founded Scatter Practice, an architecture & design studio, with her partner Ross Myren. Scatter Practice has received over 25 commissions for large-scale architectural models, including many from the international art gallery Hauser & Wirth, working as their dedicated model-makers. Through Scatter Practice, McGlynn’s work has won design competitions such as the design and fabrication of the “C&Center of Unfinished Business Reading Room“, The New School, NYC (2023). She has also shown her work in multiple exhibitions including at the annual Kino Saito Community Art show (2023), and most recently designed and built listening consoles at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, as a part of the “Aids at The New School: What is Remembered” exhibition (2025).
Together with Ross Myren, Maya McGlynn developed the Dialog by Design Program at the culmination of their residency in 2025, dedicated to the development of free design workshops for underserved communities supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
The Dialog by Design program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
