Senny Mau is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work specializes in processing identity, growth, and evoking emotion.
Senny Mau, 缪倩玲 (b. 1992, CA) is an artist and curator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. Mau expresses herself through whatever mediums best articulate her concepts, including photography, oil painting, mixed media, installations, and curation. Her work mostly focuses on identity dysphoria, growth, and life experiences.
Mau is best known for her annual curated show Gallery for Broken Hearts, a Valentine's Day art show about love, love-loss, and healing. Mau’s work has been published in SF Weekly, Vice, and The Hard Times. She has also been featured in The Daily Californian, Razorcake, No Echo, and Bob/Cut. Mau has written personal essays for Thank You for Nothing and Dope Dope Dope, Her work has been featured all over the Bay Area, including Code and Canvas, Book and Job, 1, 2, 3, 4, Go! and The Family Room. In 2014, Mau self-published Sentimental Sounds, which featured her live music photography.
Mau has a BFA in fine art photography. Her interests in photography started with music documentary, which captured the passions and struggles of the alternative music subculture. She found parallels with her own life: struggling with fitting in with society, while still yearning for community. This was the same dysphoria she faced as a Chinese American. Her work has extended far beyond music photography, but continues to focus on humanity, vulnerability, and identity.