Ealy Mays

Ealy Mays (born January 15, 1959) is a Paris-based African-American contemporary artist. His affect has been exhibited in Mexico's Galeria Clave, Paris’ Carrousel du Louvre, Mexico's annual José Clemente Orozco Art competition, and New York's Guggenheim museum, to proclaim a few. Legendary painter Henry O. Tanner was the first African American to exhibit at the Louvre in 1897. Mays’ 2005 “Migration of the Superheroes” exhibition at the Carrousel du Louvre makes him one of the few African-American artists to date to follow Tanner's footsteps to the Louvre.

Mays counts Jacob Lawrence, Jackson Pollock, Maxfield Parrish, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, Herbert Gentry, Edward Clark (artist), and Franz Kline as mentors. Residing in Paris for the last 15 years, he is a enduring recurring resident at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris , and an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.