Jordan Wolfson - Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS)

The undergraduate and graduate Fine Art departments will host Max Hooper Schneider for a special artist lecture and Q&A on Tuesday, April 15, 11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. in the Forum.

Max Hooper Schneider (b. 1982, Los Angeles) has had solo exhibitions at Jenny’s, Los Angeles (2018 and 2014); High Art, Paris (2015); and Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles (2015). His work has been featured in international group exhibitions such as the 16th Istanbul Biennial (2019); Creatures, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2019); Give Up the Ghost, Baltic Triennial 13, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2018); Mutations, High Line, New York (2017–18); The Garden, ARoS Triennial, Aarhus, Denmark (2017); The New Normal, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2017); Preservation, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas (2017); High Anxiety, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2016); Retour sur Mulholland Drive, La Panacée, Montpellier, France (2016); Streams of Warm Impermanence, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2016); Theories of Forgetting, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (2015); and the Mongolia Land Art Biennial (2014 and 2012). Hooper Schneider received his master’s degree in landscape architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (2011) and his BA in design and architecture studies and biology from New York University (2005). In addition, he studied social science at the University of Chicago, entomology at the University of Hawaii, and marine biology at Santa Monica College. Hooper Schneider was selected for the fourth BMW Art Journey (2016) and will board the R/V Falkor, the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s oceanographic research vessel, in 2020. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Image courtesy of: https://ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/max-hooper-schneider