Education |
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| 1989 | Master of Fine Art, York University, Toronto; |
| 1987 | Bachelor of Fine Art, York University, Toronto; |
| 1980 | Bachelor of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton. |
Solo Exibitions |
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| 2005 | Four Horses, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; Silenus, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Endgame, Rodman Hall, Brock University Art Gallery; |
| 2004 | Quartet, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, New York; Cloud: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Commissioned installation; Silenus, Apothiki Gallery, Paros, Greece; Four Horses, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; |
| 2003 | Sculture Gonfiabili, Galleria Traghetto, Venice, Italy; Floating Giants, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Four Horses, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario; |
| 2002 | Silenus, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta; Lamentation, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario; Sleeping Giants, Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, Ontario; |
| 2001 | Hyperworld, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Sleeping Giants, Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan; |
| 2000 | Giant, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; Sleeping Giants, Karlskoga Konsthall, Karlskoga, Sweden; Sleeping Giants, Saw Gallery, Ottawa; |
| 1999 | GnadenKirche installation and performance, Hamburg, Germany, coordinated by Kunststuck Gallery; Endgame, rooftop installation, coordinated by the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario; Swan Song, Gallery Stratford, Stratford Ontario; Sleeping Giants, Galleri Rostrum, Malmo, Sweden; |
| 1998 | Endgame (in the pit), in cooperation with Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto; Sleeping Giants, The Library and Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario; |
| 1997 | Pleasure Dome, Pyramida: Centre for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel; |
| 1996 | Tight Rope, Synagoga na Palmovca, Prague, Czech Republic; Loggia Gallery, Koffler Centre of the Arts, North York, Ontario; |
| 1995 | Quartet in a Box, 00 gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Stalk, site-specific installation, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Scotia Plaza, Toronto; |
| 1993 | "this flesh...", Galerie Articule, Montreal; |
| 1989 | The Life We Are Living, IDA Gallery, York University, Toronto; |
| 1988 | We will name this place..., Winters Gallery, York University. |
Group & Collective Exibitions |
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| 2004 | Gonflables! Inflatables Gonfiabili…, Lille, France; Floating Worlds; Beacon Cultural Foundation, Beacon, New York; Ironic Turn, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick; Plastica d’Artista, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Contempranea, Pordenone, Italy; Ironic Turn; Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto; Chassez le naturel…, 4th Liege Biennial, Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Liege, Belgium; |
| 2003 | The Ironic Turn, Faux Mouvement , Metz, France; Du lilliputien au gigantesque: l’imaginaire de la démesure, Musée Régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec; The Ironic Turn::Kanadische Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany; Il Palazzo delle Liberta, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy, curated by Lorenzo Fusi; The Mortal Coil: Ruminations on Human Physicality, Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario; |
| 2002 | Durham Regional Art Gallery, Durham Ontario: Site-specific installation; |
| 2001 | Good Place, Taichung, Taiwan, curated by Manray Hsu, Hungjohn Lin and David Liss; Mortal, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois; |
| 2000 | ogocity, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario, curated by Barbara Fischer;
Endgame, Alma Lov Museum, Ostra Amtervik, Sweden; Balancing Act, Kunstvaai4, Amsterdam, NL, curated by De Parel Gallery; |
| 1999 | Balloon Disaster #3, The Art Firm, Toronto, Ontario; Mediawave: International Media Festival: Gyor, Hungary; |
| 1998 | Between Body and Soul, Saidye Bronfman Centre and Concordia University Gallery, Montreal; Version City, University of Buffalo Art Gallery: curated by John Massier; Artifice, coordinated by Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal; of bodies changed, Thames Art Gallery, Chattam Cultural Centre, Chattam, Ontario; |
| 1997 | Ulappa '97, symposium and exhibition, Turku, Finland; |
| 1996 | Once Upon a Time, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, curated by Joan Stebbins; |
| 1995 | Nether Mind, collective exhibition; Hermit, symposium and exhibition, Plasy, Czech Republic; |
| 1994 | Naked State, curated by Louise Dompierre and Arthur Renwick, The Power Plant, Toronto; Mediatrics, coordinated by Cold City Gallery, Toronto; |
| 1993 | Communion, curated by Deborah Boardman, Johnson County Arts Center, Iowa City, Iowa; Nether Mind, collective exhibition, Toronto; Hermit, symposium and exhibition, Plasy, Czech Republic; |
| 1992 | Nether Mind, collective exhibition, Toronto; |
| 1991 | Outrageous Desire, Rutger's University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Nether Mind, collective exhibition, Toronto; |
| 1990 | Panic and Fear, retail space installation, Eaton Centre, "The Works" festival, Edmonton; |
| 1989 | The Crossing, Bloor St. United Church, coordinated by Mediums Art Centre, Toronto. |
Commissions and Collections |
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| 2005 | Silenus, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; |
| 2005 | Seated Figures, ESSL Collectin of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austia; |
| 2002 | Windsock Babies: Cambridge Sculpture Garden, Cambridge, Ontario: Site-specific installation; |
| 2001 | Floating Giants: Canadian Art Foundation: Toronto, Ontario, Commissioned installation; |
| 2000 | Endgame: Alma Lov Museum, Ostra Amtervik, Sweden; |
| 1996 | Swan Song (ice-cellar installation), permanent collection, Hermit Foundation, Czech Republic. |
| 1991 | Where there is Smoke: installation, collection of Marat Inc., Toronto. |
| 1989 | We Will Name This Place: permanent installation, collection of York University. |
Catalogues |
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| 2004 | Chassez le naturel…, 4th Liege Biennial, Liege, Belgium; |
| 2003 | Il Palazzo delle Liberta, by Lorenzo Fusi, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy; Du lilliputien au gigantesque: l’imaginaire de la démesure, Véronique Bellemare Briére, Musée Régional de Rimouski, Quebec; Four Horses, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario; |
| 2001 | The Good Place, by Manray Hsu, Hungjohn Lin and David Liss; |
| 2000 | Sleeping Giants, essay “Dream of Giants” by Marcus Miller, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario and Karlskoga Konsthall, Karlskoga, Sweden; |
| 1999 | Sleeping Giants, essay by Gordon Hatt, The Library and Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario; Between Body and Soul; essay by David Liss, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts; |
| 1998 | Version City, essay by John Massier, University of Buffalo Art Gallery; of bodies changed, essay by Lorenzo Buj, Thames Art Gallery, Chattam, Ontario; |
| 1997 | Once Upon a Time: Contemporary Tales, Southern Alberta Art Gallery; |
| 1996 | Palmovca: Sbornik Synagogy na Palmovce, essay by Martina Pachmanova; Hermit, international art symposium and exhibition, Plasy, Czech Republic; |
| 1995 | Nether Mind, essay by Christopher Dewdney; |
| 1994 | Naked State, Louise Dompierre and Arthur Renwick, The Power Plant, Toronto; |
| 1993 | Nether Mind, essay by Ihor Holubizky; Hermit, international art symposium and exhibition, Plasy, Czech Republic; |
| 1991 | Outrageous Desire, Rutger's University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. |
Selected Reviews and Articles |
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| 2005 | New York Arts, Camila Belchio, “Max Streicher”, Vol. 10 no 5/6, May/June Telegraph Journal, (photo), Fredericton, New Brunswick, April 29; Folha de Sao Paulo, Canadense e brasileira retratam homem em ‘estado de exceção’, March 2; St. Catherines Standard, Matthew Van Donegen, “Giant clown heads inspire shock and awe”, Jan. 28; |
| 2004 | Canadian Art, Dionne McAffee, “Max Streicher”, Fall; The Globe and Mail, Gary Michael Dault, “The irony of (really) big expectations”, July 3; Art Nexus, Tatiana Flores, “The Armory Show”; (photo), No. 53, volume 3; Art Nexus, Marisol Martell, “Palm Beach Contemporary” (photo), No. 52, volume 3; Telegraph Journal, “Taking art to new heights”, (photo), Fredericton, April 30; National Post, “Portraits and pancakes in honour of Salvador Dali”, (photo), April 29; Toronto Star, Christopher Hume, “People palace and a Treasure chest” (photo), March, 14; |
| 2003 | Rheinische Post, Bertram Müller, Schlafende Giganten, (photo), Oct. 29; Handelsblatt, Christian Herchenröder, “Altes Blut in neuen Adern”, (photo) Düsseldorf, Oct. 31; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Rose-Maria Gropp, “Zurück nach vorn zu den Wurzeln”, Nov. 1; Kölner Stadt Anzeiger, Martin Oehlen, “Die Welt der Kunst”, (photo), Oct. 29; Kunst Film Biennale, Kathrin Luz, “Uns kennt die halbe Welt nur nicht Ehrenfeld…”, (photo), Köln, Oct. 31; Observer Sverige AB: John Peter Nilsson, “Jätter som svävar I taket”, (photo), Stockholm, June 7; Espace: Natasha Hébert, “Il Palazzo della Libertá: Un projet elusive-subversif, sans attention aux bonnes maniéres, (photo) Winter 2003-2004 Surfacing Journal: “Max Streicher—Silenus”, (photo), Summer, Volume 24: issue 2 Lola: Jeffery Matt, “Silenus at 401 Richmond” (photo), Lola 15, vol. 7, no. 1, Toronto, spring; Max Streicher, Neptune´s Horses, 2006 Toronto Star: Peter Goddard, “Streicher’s benign giants” (photo), Jan. 11; |
| 2002 | Edmonton Journal: Gilbert Bouchard, “Artist put patrons in the thick of giant inflatables” (photo), Sept. 17; The Globe and Mail: Sarah Milroy, “Divine Comedy”, (photo), Toronto, Sept. 7; Espace: Gill McElroy, “Lamentation” (photo), Montreal, Autumn; The Chronicle-Journal: Peter Fergus-Moore, “ Sleeping Giants: Comatose, Disturbing” (photo), Thunder Bay, Ontario, March 12; |
| 2001 | The Star Phoenix: Sheila Robertson, “Challenging Boundaries” (photos), Regina, Sept. 29; Leader Post: Jack Anderson, "Sleeping Giants Spectacular" (photo) Regina, Dec. 13; World Sculpture News: Paula Gustafson, “Max Streicher at Monte Clark Gallery” (photo), Hong Kong, winter; Espace: Paula Gustafson, “Max Streicher: Giants” (photo), Montreal, spring; |
| 2000 | Konstperspektiv: Fred Andersson, “Experimental konst i värmländsk hage”, weden, Argang 28; The Globe and Mail: Blake Gopnik, "Signs prove consumer culture is more than just a straight sell", Toronto, August, 26; Lola: Catherine Osborne, “logocity”, Toronto, Autumn; Lola: Sherri Irvin, “Sleeping Giants” Toronto, Autumn; |
| 1999 | Elmsbuettler Wochenblatt: “Kunst & Gottesdienst” (photo), Hamburg, Nov. 4, 1999; |
| 1998 | Canadian Art: Corina Ghaznavi, "Space Invaders" (photo), Toronto, Autumn; Beaux-Arts Magazine: Chloe Braunstein, "Le Confable" (photo), Paris, October; The Globe and Mail: Blake Gopnik, "The last laugh" (photo),Toronto, August, 1; Voir: Stepane Aquin, “Cocktail artistique”, Montreal, July 2; |
| 1997 | Tucun Sanomat: Raili Suoninen, "Terveiset Ulapalta", Turku, Finland, June 3; Ha'aretz:, Haifa, Israel, March 20; |
| 1996 | The Globe and Mail: Alanna Mitchell, "Alberta gallery features fractured fairy tales", Nov. 2; Atelier, Journal of Contemporary Art: Andela Hrova, " Utahnuty Provaz", Prague, June 13; The Prague Post: Randi Druzin, "Modern Babylon", Prague, April 24; Labyrint: Max Streicher: Synagoga na Palmovce, Prague, April; |
| 1995 | The Globe and Mail: John Bently Mays, "Two shows that show the unshowable", Sept. 9; Atelier, Journal of Contemporary Art: “Sever a Jil v Plasich-Krizeni poedniku”, Prague, Sept; NOW Magazine: Deirdre Hanna, "Inflatable hunters make for Bay Street metaphor", April 20; |
| 1994 | Canadian Art: Gary Michael Dault, "Tragically Hip" (photograph), Toronto, winter; Eye magazine: Oliver Girling, "Wired up from Degree Zero", Toronto, Oct. 6; The Ontarion: Tracy Siemon, "Nether Mind's body of expression", October; The Toronto Star: Christopher Hume, "Naked State Show Illuminates Dark New Age", Sept. 22; Sunday Magazine, Toronto Sun: Lisa Balfour Bowen, "Body Language", Sept. 18; |
| 1993 | Parcours Arts Visuels: Marguerite Anderson: "Toronto Underground", Montreal, autumn; |
| 1991 | The Globe and Mail: Kate Taylor: "Sculptors at play with a sense of fun", Oct. 23; NOW Magazine: Deirdre Hanna, "Nether Mind displays new face of Canadian art", May 28; |
| 1990 | FUSE: Steve Reinke, "Off the Beaten Track: The Crossing", (photo), Toronto, spring. |
| 1989 | Work Seen: David Renaud: "The Crossing-Art: Church Site for Group Show", Toronto, Nov. Metropolis: Linda Genereux, "Crossing - Art Crosses Barriers", Nov. 2. |