Max Hooper Schneider

Max Hooper Schneider’s polymathic practice brings together the fields of biology, philosophy, and landscape architecture to create objects and environments that speculate on entropic forces and posthuman forms. Hooper Schneider develops and explores the aesthetics of succession, abandonment, and the uncanny through habitat-like artworks that materialize and dramatize natural and artificial systems. Conceiving of nature as a process of ceaseless morphological change, Hooper Schneider never takes the idea of the body for granted, instead proposing countless ways for bodies to be continuously broken down, recreated and transformed. With a deeply researched practice that draws upon fieldwork around the world, Hooper Schneider defamiliarizes human-centered time scales and material culture, returning time and again to the strangenesses and symbioses that have preceded and that will outlast human civilization.

Hooper Schneider (b. 1982, Los Angeles, CA) has held solo exhibitions at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, MO.CO Montpellier, and the Hammer Museum. Group exhibitions include Centre Pompidou-Metz, Schinkel Pavillon, Leeum Museum of Art, Musée d’art moderne de Paris, as well as the Gwangju Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, and Baltic Triennial. His works are held in collections including the Hammer Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, Musée d’art moderne Paris, Rubell Museum, and Fondation Lafayette.