Maso’s artwork delves into the contemporary understanding of socially shaped “unconscious behaviors” and challenges what is accepted by society as natural, necessary, and normal. Key projects include: Post PostProduction Project (2012-2015), that explored the audiovisual piracy phenomenon and its social implications; Aesthetic Register of Covert Forces, a geometric archive of striped polo shirts worn by the undercover political police in Cuba; and Obtuse Exercises for Dissenting Bodies, a study of the positions assumed by dissident bodies in relation to “police control dispositive.”
Recent solo exhibitions include “Who Kills Ai Weiwei?” at Dimensions Variable (2022) and “Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home?” in collaboration with Locust Project (2021). Selected group exhibitions include “Passages” at the AIRIE Nest Gallery in the Everglades National Park (2023), “Paint the Protest” at Off Paradise Gallery (2022), “Cicatrices. Marks that Remain” at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (2022), “Under the Florida Sun. New Art South Florida: 2021” at Florida Atlantic University (2021), and “Where there is Power” at Oolite Arts (2021). Maso is a nominee for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2020). He received the 2022 DV—AIRIE Award, the Oolite Arts’ Home + Away residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts (2020) and Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2022), and the 2022 Hayama Artist Residency in Japan. He is a two-time finalist of the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts, a 2022 and 2020 Ellies Creator Award winner by Oolite Arts, a 2021 South Florida Cultural Consortium grant recipient, and a 2022 AIRIE fellow.