Max Colby (born 1990) is an artist known for her work in textiles, sculpture, installation, embroidery, and painting. Her work highlights precarity and vulnerability through a consistent investigation of ritual objects, most often, funereal. Touching on such ceremonial iconography, the artist constructs objects which subvert the aesthetics of patriarchal systems. [1] To her, Colby's process is about undoing the conditioning of "inherited cultural understandings of binary gender, as well as class and taste."[2] Colby's elaborate work in installation utilizing beads, faux flowers, sequins, ribbons, fabric and jewelry is a flamboyant celebration of self-expression through the artist's meticulous process of utopian construction of a universe.[3]

Early life

Colby was born in West Palm Beach, Florida.[2] She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and received a BFA in 2012.

Exhibitions[1]

2011

  • Arches Show, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
  • Concepts of the Self, MFA Horticulture Library, Boston, MA
  • Exchange, Prints from Frans Masereel, SMFA, Boston, MA;  
  • Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI;  
  • Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland;  
  • Antwerp Academy of Arts, Antwerp, Belgium

2012

  • New Prints/2012 Summer selected by Shahzia Sikander, IPCNY, New York, NY
  • H x W x D x T, Yes.Oui.Si Gallery, Boston, MA
  • Slivers, B.A.G. Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA
  • The Artist’s Voice, Resnikoff Gallery, Boston, MA
  • Celebrating the Transformative Power of Art, Doric Hall, Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston, MA
  • Transatlantic Fun-O-Pack, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland;  
  • SMFA, Boston, MA

2013

  • Crafted, TEMP Gallery, New York, NY
  • Prints on Prince, Crossman Gallery, Whitewater, WI

2014

Vernissage: 100, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2017

Stitch: Beyond Function, Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Education, Tulsa, OK

2019

  • Harvest: A Convening of Materiality and Form curated by Sidel & McElwreath, ChaShaMa, New York, NY
  • No Trigger Warning curated by Bill Arning, Flatland Gallery, Houston, TX
  • Figuring the Floral, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
  • A Body of Work curated by Shehab Awad, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY
  • Rijswijk Textile Biennial, Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, Netherlands
  • Lobster Dinner curated by Will Hutnick, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  • Soft Grit, LoBo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2020

  • Tableau Vivant curated by Anna Cone and Victoria Udondian, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY

2021

  • Home, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, NY
  • Uncommon Ground, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • Fringe, Denny Dimin Gallery, New York, NY
  • Above & Below, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • Cuir curated by Chiachio & Giannone, Isabel Croxatto Galería, Santiago, Chile
  • Dissolution, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY

2022

  • Art in Focus, Rockefeller Center, presented in partnership with Art Production Fund, New York, NY
  • Radical Enchantments, Aicon, New York, NY

References

  1. 1 2 "About". Max Colby. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  2. 1 2 "Multimedia Visual Artist Max Colby Comes to Rockefeller Center". www.rockefellercenter.com. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  3. ↑ Yerebakan, Osman Can. "Highlights from 'With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985'". Interior Design. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
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