Maia
Regis
Maia Regis
Apr - Jun 2026
/ Past resident
Maïa Régis (b. 1995) is a French-Italian painter based in Palermo, Sicily. Her work merges figuration and abstraction in large-scale, colorful, layered compositions that navigate shifting cultural references, visual languages, and emotional states. Pursuing visual rhythm, material intensity, and narrative ambiguity, her paintings unfold as vibrant terrains where images surface, dissolve, and reconfigure. Régis often works nomadically, gathering iconographic motifs from the places she moves through. After receiving her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2019, she established her studio in Palermo, in a historic Baroque palazzo in the heart of the Ballarò market. There, she draws inspiration from the city's stark dialogue between the sacred and the rawness of urban life.
"New York represents a natural extension of my process: its multicultural fabric, diasporic communities, and visual intensity strongly resonate with the themes I explore in painting. The city's density, of people, images, and ideas, feels like a living collage, mirroring the way I work with layered fragments and overlapping cultural references. My creative process is rooted in the logic of sampling, collecting traces, marks, materials, and codes, and reassembling them into new visual structures."
Maia Regis
Maia Regis
Maia Regis
Apr - Jun 2026
/ Past resident
Maïa Régis (b. 1995) is a French-Italian painter based in Palermo, Sicily. Her work merges figuration and abstraction in large-scale, colorful, layered compositions that navigate shifting cultural references, visual languages, and emotional states. Pursuing visual rhythm, material intensity, and narrative ambiguity, her paintings unfold as vibrant terrains where images surface, dissolve, and reconfigure. Régis often works nomadically, gathering iconographic motifs from the places she moves through. After receiving her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2019, she established her studio in Palermo, in a historic Baroque palazzo in the heart of the Ballarò market. There, she draws inspiration from the city's stark dialogue between the sacred and the rawness of urban life.
"New York represents a natural extension of my process: its multicultural fabric, diasporic communities, and visual intensity strongly resonate with the themes I explore in painting. The city's density, of people, images, and ideas, feels like a living collage, mirroring the way I work with layered fragments and overlapping cultural references. My creative process is rooted in the logic of sampling, collecting traces, marks, materials, and codes, and reassembling them into new visual structures."
Maia Regis
Maia
Regis
Maia Regis
Apr - Jun 2026
/ Past resident
Maïa Régis (b. 1995) is a French-Italian painter based in Palermo, Sicily. Her work merges figuration and abstraction in large-scale, colorful, layered compositions that navigate shifting cultural references, visual languages, and emotional states. Pursuing visual rhythm, material intensity, and narrative ambiguity, her paintings unfold as vibrant terrains where images surface, dissolve, and reconfigure. Régis often works nomadically, gathering iconographic motifs from the places she moves through. After receiving her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2019, she established her studio in Palermo, in a historic Baroque palazzo in the heart of the Ballarò market. There, she draws inspiration from the city's stark dialogue between the sacred and the rawness of urban life.
"New York represents a natural extension of my process: its multicultural fabric, diasporic communities, and visual intensity strongly resonate with the themes I explore in painting. The city's density, of people, images, and ideas, feels like a living collage, mirroring the way I work with layered fragments and overlapping cultural references. My creative process is rooted in the logic of sampling, collecting traces, marks, materials, and codes, and reassembling them into new visual structures."