Max Streicher
Born 1958, Olds, Alberta, Canada
Max Streicher is a sculptor and installation artist from Toronto, Canada. Since 1989 he has worked extensively with inflatable technology in kinetic sculptures and installation works. He has shown widely across Canada in solo exhibitions in museums such as The Art Gallery of Ontario, Edmonton Art Gallery and the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon. He has been part of group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Power Plant Centre for contemporary Art, Toronto and Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge. He has completed several international site-related projects across Canada and abroad in such places as Taichung, Taiwan, Erfurt, Germany, Reims, France, Aachen, Germany, Madrid, Spain and Mumbai, India. His inflatable works are in the collections of museums such as the ESSL Museum, Vienna and Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton and the University of Toronto. He was a founding member of the Nethermind collective of artists who organized several sculputre exhibitions in alternative spaces in Toronto. Max Streicher is currently represented by Ponce+Robles, Madrid, Galerie Miguel Marco, Barcelona, Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, India, Felix Ringle Galerie, Düsseldorf and Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York.