Max Cleary (b. 1991) is a Los Angeles and Honolulu based artist working across the mediums of photography, sculpture, and painting. He received his MFA from the University of California Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited across Los Angeles, Honolulu, Seattle, Santa Barbara, and Portland, with recent solo presentations at The LINE Hotel (LA), Other Places Art Fair (LA), Winston’s (LA), and Kaiao Space (Honolulu).
Cleary’s practice hovers between factual and imaginary, between utilitarian and absurd. Driven by interests in the scientific and symbolic roots of everyday knowledge and experience, his works function simultaneously as narrative devices, historical documents, utilitarian objects, and pseudo-scientific visual aids.