Maii Michaella Miatti Fallara
Artist member since 2026
ProMontreal, Québec
Maii Michaella Miatti Fallara is a Montreal-based visual artist and writer currently completing a BFA in Painting & Drawing at Concordia University. Her practice explores masking, memory, trauma, mental health, disability, identity, grief, transformation, and the emotional architecture of survival.
As a neurodivergent Black trans artist living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, PTSD, and Agoraphobia, Maii creates from the interior spaces of fear, tenderness, rupture, and recovery. Her layered semi-figurative paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works translate the invisible weight of mental illness into textured, expressive forms that can be seen, held, and witnessed.
Her work moves between portraiture, personal archive, visual poetry, and psychological landscape. Figures appear fragmented, masked, tender, distorted, or in transition, reflecting the ways the body and mind adapt under pressure while still searching for beauty, intimacy, and release.
Maii’s artworks are suited for private collections, care spaces, mental health environments, creative studios, and collectors drawn to emotionally charged contemporary work rooted in lived experience, vulnerability, resilience, and becoming.
Inside the Studio
Q+A
Why is art important to you?
Art is important to me because it lets the invisible become visible. It gives shape to the things I could not always say out loud: anxiety, grief, trauma, memory, survival, tenderness, and becoming. Art has been my way of making a home inside myself when the world felt unsafe. It allows me to turn pain into something that can be witnessed, held, and transformed.
What do you listen to when you work?
I listen to emotional, cinematic songs that feel like they are carrying a memory. Lately that includes Billie Eilish, Patrick Watson, Winona Oak, Gracie Abrams, Troye Sivan, Selena Gomez, and songs that sit somewhere between softness, heartbreak, and survival. Music helps me enter the emotional temperature of the work before the image fully arrives. A lot of classical music lately as well, instrumentals.
Favourite medium
Mixed media. I love painting, drawing, texture, acrylic, charcoal, graphite, oil pastel, modeling paste, and anything that lets the surface feel alive. I’m drawn to materials that can be layered, wounded, erased, rebuilt, and transformed — because that is often how the body and memory work too.
When did you start making art, and why?
I started making art before I fully had language for what I was surviving. Art became a way to understand myself, especially as a neurodivergent Black trans woman moving through anxiety, trauma, and the pressure to mask. I make art because it gives my inner world somewhere to go. It lets me turn fragmentation into image, silence into texture, and survival into something beautiful enough to keep living with.
Describe the person your work appeals to in 3 words
Sensitive, haunted, becoming.
Favourite musical artist / band right now
Billie Eilish, Patrick Watson, and Winona Oak. I’m drawn to artists who make vulnerability feel cinematic — music that feels intimate, wounded, beautiful, and quietly devastating.
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