Maria Constanza Ferreira (b. 1994, Caracas, Venezuela) is a multimedia artist and independent animator. Her works have been showcased internationally and she was most recently an artist in residence at the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science, and Technology. In 2019 and 2020, Ferreira was awarded a residency in the chemistry laboratory of the Kahr Research Group at New York University, with funding from the National Science Foundation and the Kahr Group. In 2020 Ferreira was the recipient of the GLAS Animation Festival Grant, the singular grant of its kind for independent animators in the US, in addition to receiving two nominations for Vimeo’s Best of the Year in the “Experimental Category”. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Film/Animation/Video and Graphic Design.