Bio

Jaimes Mayhew is a transgender artist who makes participatory, interdisciplinary work that addresses queer identities and how they are expressed through land use, speculation and ecology. From installation, photography and video to fiber art and performance, Mayhew’s work is conceptually tied together through experimentations of  queering relationships between humans, places and things.

Jaimes’ collaborative and solo work has been shown nationally and internationally, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Hoffmangalerí (Reykjavik), City Arts (Baltimore, MD) and Cummings Art Gallery (New Haven, CT) among others. He has received grants and fellowships from The Fulbright Commission of Iceland, Maryland State Arts Council, Rubys Artist Grants, The Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund and Provisions Library, among others.

Reviews of their work have appeared in Hyperallergic, Art Papers, and The Creators Project, among others.  An article about Mayhew’s work titled “Performing Trans Ontology: The Body (and Body of Work) of Jaimes Mayhew” was published in the academic journal Feminist Frontiers in late 2020. In the the Fall of 2021, a book chapter of Mayhew’s was published in “Out of Place: Artists Pedagogy and Practice”, edited by Zoë Charlton and Tim Doud.

Mayhew holds an MFA in Intermedia and Digital Art from University of Maryland Baltimore County. Mayhew is a full time Lecturer at University of Vermont.