about

Maya Chachava’s work is deeply rooted in her interests in poetry, literature, personal and cultural paradigms. She works with traditional painting media, as well as encaustics, printmaking and digital processes. The sense of nostalgia, misplacement and notion of self-identity are major themes that emerge in her work along with a continuous quest to find boundaries between reality and imagination.

Maya was born in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Since childhood she wanted to be an artist, but her dream came true only when she moved to United States in the early 90s. Maya earned a BFA in English Language and Literature at Tbilisi Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages and a second BFA in Fine Arts and Spanish at CWU. She completed graduate studies with MFA in Painting at the University of Washington. 

Her work has been featured in over 50 national and international shows in galleries of New York, Chicago, Seattle, Tbilisi, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia and Miami to name a few. She is recipient of numerous grants and fellowships with publications in New American Paintings, Studio Visit Magazine and Still Point Arts Quarterly, among others. Maya is currently an Associate Professor of Art at CWU.