 In the March 2012 "Modern Luxury DC Magazine", Ealy Mays's "Mona Lisa Likes Pancakes" was featured along with Romare Bearden's "Untitled", Laura Abbate's "Untitled", John McMahon's "Obama 2008", and C. M. Birge's "Dancer Male Bronze", among the collection of fame philanthropist and patron of the arts Reginald Van Lee.In 2012, Mays exhibited in the Contemporary Art Fair in New York.He appears regularly in local Parisian newspapers art round-ups such as a "Le Monde" October 2008 piece that featured Mays' submarine in a local art show and described it as "a formidable submarine which takes one into other waters", and "Le Figaro"′s coverage of a local Barack Obama-themed gallery exhibition, "Obama in a Parisian Gallery".