b. 1985, United States
Devin T. Mays (b. 1985, Detroit, USA) originally studied Business Administration at Howard University (Washington, DC) before completing his Master of Fine Arts at University of Chicago in 2016. Devin’s practice is an attempt to trust in materials. Often working with found objects, in his works the materials being used do not present themselves as anything other than what they are. And in this way, Devin highlights how the physicality of a thing transforms through one’s mental engagement with it. For Devin this process of transformation is more akin to intuition and revelation, than to invention and revolution.