Mayah Monet Lovell is an award winning Caribbean-American transdisciplinary artist, writer, and scientist whose diverse work explores language of expression through ritual, intimacy, and environment. Over the past decade, she has exhibited nationally in both traditional and underground spaces, including Gallery Y, 52 O St, Vox Populi, Washington Project for the Arts, The Compound, Transformers, Rhizome, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, and Poetic Research Bureau, amongst others across traditional painting and performance art.

Working in traditional visual art, she is a Founding Cohort member of Liberation gallery & studios in Brentwood, MD, and maintains a home studio in Germantown. She received Honorable Mention for Mixed Media in the Reflections Past & Present juried exhibition (Jan 2026). Her figurative abstract painting “Dancing in the Rubble” was selected as the cover art of So To Speak Vol 35, a journal featuring marginalized art and writing. 

Lovell is the creator of dykes day, an ongoing  collaborative lesbian literature collective awarded the Wherewithal Andy Warhol Project Grant. Mayah has published art and writing in chapbooks, literary projects, reviews and zines, and has taught several literature workshops. Her first full-length book was competitively selected by Discount Guillotine (forthcoming 2026). She is a member of the Capitol Hill Art League, Maryland Art Association, and Art League of Germantown.