Born 1988 in Paris, France.

Lives and works in Paris, France.

Born in France of Algerian parents, Maya Inès Touam claims the point of view of a granddaughter of emigrants, to build her work between the shores of the Mediterranean, revealing an identity both intimate and foreign. A graduate of the Beaux-arts de Paris in 2013, she conducts anthropological and dreamlike research, using different media (photographs, drawings, sculptures, etc.) and personal or symbolic objects. In 2017, she received an award from the Alliances Foundation in Morocco. In 2021, during a residency at the H Foundation in France, she extended her research to the diasporas of the African continent in the country, offering a postcolonial look at immigration. Recently she exhibited at Les Rencontres de la photography to present a work with western cultural references and at the same time imprinted by her Algerian roots.