Maia Gambis is a French-Venezuelan artist and researcher based between Europe and South America. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bard College, New York (1999), and master’s degrees in Psychopathology and Psychoanalytic Studies from Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot (2008).
Her work explores the relationship between human and natural worlds through photography, sculpture, painting, video, sound, and installation. Her multidisciplinary practice connects artistic inquiry with ecological and social engagement. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public and private collections.
In 2008, she founded Museo del Niño y del Niño en el Adulto (MNNA), a space for children—and the child within—dedicated to strengthening communities through the arts and self-expression. In 2010, she developed Ecuador visto por los niños ("Ecuador Seen Through the Children"), a photographic project with HIAS Ecuador and refugee youth. More recently, she created Altavoz historias migrantes, a platform amplifying migrant stories. She also led La Casa Escucha, a psychosocial initiative supporting early parent-child relationships at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), where she taught from 2015 to 2025.
She is currently pursuing a PhD at Université Paris Cité, in collaboration with the Babylab Cerep-Phymentin in Paris. Situated at the intersection of psychoanalysis, anthropology, and art, her research explores the creative potential of human life from its beginnings and its relationship to the living world.