Max Colby

Max Colby (born 1990) is a queer artist known for her work in textiles, sculpture, installation, embroidery, and painting. She limits her work to “opulent Western European, American Colonial, and Contemporary American Fabrics”, having a fascination and focus on colonialism and domesticity through a transgender and nonbinary lens.[1] Her work also deals heavily with domesticity, camp, and patriarchy as viewed from her own perspective and her own experiences of gender dysphoria and gender identity.[2] According to her, Colby's process is about undoing the conditioning of "inherited cultural understandings of binary gender, as well as class and taste, in relation to [her] queerness".[3]

Early life

Colby was born in West Palm Beach, Florida.[3] While in high school she discovered her love of printmaking.[4] She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and received a BFA in 2012. It was there that she began to experiment more with other mediums. In 2017, Max Colby made the decision to restart her artistic practice and practice art full time, following an increasing awareness of her trans identity and desire to transform her work personally and professionally.[3]

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, N

2022
  • Art in Focus, Rockefeller Center, presented in partnership with Art Production Fund, New York, NY

References
  1. "About". Max Colby. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  2. "23. Max Colby. Ridgewood, Queens, NY". Caroline Kipp. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  3. "Multimedia Visual Artist Max Colby Comes to Rockefeller Center". www.rockefellercenter.com. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  4. "Bodybuilders and Embroidery: The Artwork of Max Colby (NSFW)". Paper Darts. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
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