Max Hooper Schneider
Max Hooper Schneider’s polymathic practice brings together the fields of biology, philosophy, and landscape architecture to create objects and environments that speculate on entropic forces and posthuman forms. Hooper Schneider develops and explores the aesthetics of succession, abandonment, and the uncanny through habitat-like artworks that materialize and dramatize natural and artificial systems. Conceiving of nature as a process of ceaseless morphological change, Hooper Schneider never takes the idea of the body for granted, instead proposing countless ways for bodies to be continuously broken down, recreated and transformed. With a deeply researched practice that draws upon fieldwork around the world, Hooper Schneider defamiliarizes human-centered time scales and material culture, returning time and again to the strangenesses and symbioses that have preceded and that will outlast human civilization.
Hooper Schneider (b. 1982, Los Angeles, CA) received his Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and his Bachelor’s degrees in Urban Design and Biology from New York University, with additional studies in Marine Biology and Entomology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Santa Monica College. He has shown in solo exhibitions at prominent museums and institutions internationally, including UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, MO.CO Montpellier Museée Contemporain, and the Hammer Museum. His museum group exhibitions include Centre Pompidou-Metz, Schinkel Pavillon, Leeum Museum of Art, Kistefos Museum, and Musée d’art moderne de Paris. Hooper Schneider has been included in a number of international biennial exhibitions, including the 15th Gwangju Biennale 2024, 16th Istanbul Biennial, 13th Baltic Triennial, and the Mongolia Land Art Biennial.
Hooper Schneider’s works are held in major public and private collections, including the Hammer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Musée d’art moderne Paris, Rubell Museum, Fondation Lafayette, and Fonds d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève, among others. He was awarded the BMW Art Journey Prize in 2017 and the Schmidt Ocean Institute Prize in 2023. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Versicolor Mouth of the Counselor to the Gods, 2024
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Falling Angel, 2023
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Dendrite Bonsai (Lemon), 2023
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Dendrite Bonsai (Corn), 2023
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ROUTE 666, 2023
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BENTHIC SIREN, 2023
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ABYSSAL BELL, 2023
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Dendrite Bonsai (Reef), 2023
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Twilight at the Earth’s Crust, 2023
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Nuclear Hamlet, 2022
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CAPSULE REEF, 2022
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CONTROL APPARITION, 2022
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Fossil Epizoon (dyrosaurus), 2021
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18 & Over, 2021
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Eocene Epizoon: Cnidarian Bacula, 2021
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DIALECTRIX: DIVISION APTERONOTUS (JESUS SAVES), 2020
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Antemortem Sirenian, 2018
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Pet Semiosis 10: Small Pox (Korean), 2016
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Max Hooper Schneider
The Unknown Masterpiece October 19 - 28, 2024 Robinson Gardens, 1008 Elden Way, Beverly HillsIn conjunction with Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide Curated by Del Vaz Projects With support from François Ghebaly & Marc Selwyn Fine Art October 19, 24, 25, 26,...Read more -
François Ghebaly x Rhinoceros Roma
Group exhibition June 9 - November 18, 2023 Rhinoceros Roma, Via del Velabro, 9, RomeFrançois Ghebaly and Rhinoceros Roma are pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Neïl Beloufa, Max Hooper Schneider, Em Rooney and Ludovic Nkoth opening at Rhinoceros Gallery’s space in...Read more -
Max Hooper Schneider
Falling Angels May 6 - June 10, 2023 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesAngels of immanence are not the pink-hued and bewinged putti of the Italian Renaissance. They are Breughel’s rebel angels, fallen angels who wear no halos, know no gods, and consider...Read more -
Materia Medica
Curated by Kelly Akashi July 22 - September 4, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesAnn Craven Becca Mann Candice Lin Catalina Ouyang Diane Severin Nguyen Evelyn Statsinger Hugh Hayden Janis Miltenberger Jessie Homer French Kay Hofmann Max Hooper Schneider Nancy Youdelman Rindon Johnson ...Read more
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A Flourish of Miniatures Thrive in Max Hooper Schneider’s Uncanny Post-Human Dioramas
Grace Ebert, Colossal, March 22, 2024 -
Max Hooper Schneider: Twilight at the Earth’s Crust
Eddy Frankel, Time Out, November 2, 2023 -
Review: Max Hooper Schneider at François Ghebaly
Annabel Osberg, Artforum, September 1, 2023 -
What’s Broken Heals Better
Jennifer Remenchik , Hyperallergic, May 29, 2023 -
Max Hooper Schneider at François Ghebaly
Vanessa Holyoak, CARLA, May 25, 2023 -
Melted action figures, mushrooms, rotting French fries: Inside Max Hooper Schneider’s ‘feral’ art
Leah Ollman, The Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2023 -
The Back Room of This Artist’s Studio Is Called the Abattoir
Travis Diehl, The New York Times Style Magazine, April 13, 2023 -
The Molecular Accelerator
Nicolas Bourriaud, CURA, December 1, 2022 -
Review: Welcome to Max Hooper Schneider’s disturbing dystopian extravaganza
Leah Ollman, The Los Angeles Times, December 24, 2019 -
Max Hooper Schneider’s Sculptures May or May Not Include a Dead Mouse
Kate Wolf, Interview Magazine, September 9, 2019 -
1000 Words: Max Hooper Schneider
Beau Rutland, Artforum, January 1, 2016