Max Maddox is an installation artist, public interventionist, and cultural critic working with found and otherwise procured objects. Pairing his work with drawing and photography, Maddox has exhibited his work in galleries that include the Redline Contemporary Art Center (Denver), where he was resident artist from 2020-2022, The Art Gym (Denver), Hillyer Art Space (Washington D.C), Locallective (Chicago), the Slought Foundation (Philadelphia), the Print Center of Philadelphia, The Ellen Powell Tiberino Memorial Museum (Philadelphia), and Abecedarian Gallery (Denver).
In 2024 Maddox received a microgrant from the Denver Theater District for the collaborative project Folie à Deux, and in 2023 he was awarded the Greene Fellowship, a generous grant for individual artists. He has a bachelor’s in philosophy from Grinnell College and a master’s in studio art from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, where he was nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award and won the Fellowship Trust Award. Maddox co-wrote and in 2013 published the memoir Walks on the Margins, a 2014 EVVY award recipient, as well as winner of the Golden Quill Award and a finalist for the Iowa Review Award. He is project leader of the Arts in Society funded design project, Array Parity, and lead developer for the program Troupe Therapy, a budding cross-disciplinary art therapy program in Colorado.
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