Meet the Artists: Session 3
Mauro Giaconi, Maya Weishof, and Tariku Shiferaw
Mauro, Maya, and Tariku will be in residence at Fountainhead from April 1 to April 29, 2026.
Mauro Giaconi
Sponsored by Adriana and Ricardo Malfitano
Mauro Giaconi is an Argentine artist and independent cultural manager based in Mexico City, working across drawing, sculpture, installation, and graphic intervention. His practice explores the tension between reality and appearance, creating fractures in perception that blend history and fiction while engaging concepts such as official history, instability, and resilience. Through these strategies, he proposes states that exist between fragility and strength, while more recent work investigates appearance and simulation as mechanisms of power, resistance, and survival within visual, historical, and political systems. His work has been widely exhibited internationally, including at Fundación Proa, Museo Universitario del Chopo, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Asphalt Festival, and featured in publications such as Vitamin D3 (Phaidon, 2021) and Remains Tomorrow (Hatje Cantz, 2022).
Maya Weishof
Maya Weishof is a Brazilian artist born in Curitiba in 1993 and based in São Paulo, working primarily with painting and drawing on canvas and fabric. Her practice explores the relationship between body and landscape through fragments, distortions, caricatures, and hybrid figures, engaging themes of eroticism, intimacy, and the representation of the female body. Rooted in drawing, her work draws from memory, myth, and art historical references to construct open-ended compositions that resist linear narratives and expand figuration into layered fields of meaning. Her recent solo exhibitions include O último dia do século at Millan, São Paulo (2023); Fever Nights at Galerie Hussenot, Paris (2022); Headless at Kupfer, London (2021); Primeiros Sóis at Auroras, São Paulo (2020); and Os substitutos at Boiler Galeria, Curitiba (2019). She has participated in the 14th Mercosur Biennial (2025) and group exhibitions at institutions and galleries including Palazzo Monti, Museo Oscar Niemeyer, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Nara Roesler, and Cisterna Galeria, among others.
Tariku Shiferaw
Teriku Shiferaw is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting and installation, whose practice centers on mark-making as both a formal and conceptual strategy. Through abstraction, he engages the discourse of painting while addressing questions of space-making and value within Eurocentric systems, particularly in relation to the African Diaspora. His work examines how histories, symbols, and narratives are inscribed and erased, positioning mark-making as a site of resistance and cultural affirmation. His ongoing series Mata Semay (“night skies”) constructs immersive environments that draw on African and diasporic mythologies to propose alternative cosmologies and systems of knowledge beyond Western frameworks. Recent solo exhibitions include Maps and Borders at the New York Print Center (2025); Marking Oneself in Dark Places at Galerie Lelong & Co., New York (2023); Making Space: One of These Black Boys at the Southampton African American Museum (2023); and It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thang at Galerie Lelong & Co., New York (2021).
