Israel born Maya Smira has work in a bewildering array of mediums, from photography and video to performance, sculpture and installation. Her appetite for travels led her to take long journeys around the globe looking for new adventures. She studied photography at Minshar for Art in Tel-Aviv (BFA), and humanities at the Open University of Israel (BA). Later she acquired her MFA and specified in new genres at the San Francisco Art Institute. She exhibit in both California and Israel, as well as several other countries in the world.