Max Streicher     Works     Vita
*1958   Toronto, Canada
EDUCATION
1989 Master of Fine Art, York University, Toronto, Canada.
1987 Bachelor of Fine Art, York University, Toronto, Canada.
1980 Bachelor of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Sleeping Gigants, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK.
Mammatus,Galleria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain.
Blow, Felix Ringel Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Centro exhibition, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal.
2006 Mammaratus, Wiinipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Quadriga, Ludwig-Forum für Internationale Kunst, Installation   Giant Horses, Aachen, Germany.
Four Horses, Galerie d’art Luise-et-Reuben-Cohen de l’Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Respiración Madrid, Galerie Raquel Ponce, Madrid, Spain.
Mammatus, Museum London, London, Ontario, Canada.
2005 “You and me: body talks” with Loan Nguyen, HERRMANN & WAGNER, Berlin, Germany.
“Metamorphosis”, Artcore/ Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto, Canada.
Respiración, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain.
Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany.
Silenus, Glassbox, University of Erfurt Art Gallery,Erfurt, Germany.
Four Horses, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Silenus, Galeria Lerne, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Endgame Rodman Hall, Brock University Art Gallery; Sextet, Centre d’exposition L’Imagier, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
2004 Cloud, commissioned installation, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
Quartet, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, USA.
Four Horses, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, USA.
Silenus, Apothiki Gallery, Paros, Greece.
Horses, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
2003 Sculture Gonfiabili, Galleria Traghetto, Venice, Italy.
Floating Giants, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
Four Horses, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Horses, Sculpture Cologne (Art Cologne), Cologne, Germany.
2002 Silenus, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Lamentation, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Sleeping Giants, Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
2001 Hyperworld, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Sleeping Giants, Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2000 Giant, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Sleeping Giants, Karlskoga Konsthall, Karlskoga, Sweden.
Sleeping Giants, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
1999 Gnaden Kirche, installation and performance, coordinated by Kunststuck Gallery, Hamburg, Germany. Endgame, rooftop installation, coordinated by the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
Swan Song, Gallery Stratford, Stratford Ontario, Canada.
Sleeping Giants, Galleri Rostrum, Malmö, Sweden.
1998 Endgame (in the pit), Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Sleeping Giants, The Library and Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
1997 Pleasure Dome, Pyramida, Centre for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel.
1996 Tight Rope, Synagoga na Palmovca, Prague, Czech Republic.
Loggia Gallery, Koffler Centre of the Arts, North York, Ontario, Canada.
1995 Quartet in a Box, 00 gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, USA.
Stalk, site-specific installation, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Scotia Plaza, Toronto, Canada.
1993 this flesh..., Galerie Articule, Montreal, Canada.
1989 The Life We Are Living, IDA Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada.
1988 We will name this place..., Winters Gallery, York University, Great Britain.
GROUP   EXHIBITIONS
2008 Captive Visions: Contemporary Canadian Art, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York.
2007 Take a Deep Breath, three- day interdisciplinary symposium, Tate Modern, London, UK,
15. - 17. 11. 2007.
Gallery Maskara, Art Contemporary, Bombay, India.n S
A SENSE OF SPACE: Experience a new way of "seeing" art -- Blind Culture, Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
Fine Line, Kunsthallen Braenderigaarden, Viborg, Denmark.
Baby-Body, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany .
Troika, Slava’s Snowshow, Moscow, Russia.
Forum for Culture, UNESCO and Kinetica Museum, Monterrey, Mexico.
Playing in Traffic, Red Bull Music Academy, Toronto.
Blind Culture, Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford, Ontario.
The Great Indoors: Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK.
Floating Artworks, Art Gallery of Ontario, Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada
Huge, Artcore/Fabrice marcoloni, Toronto, Canada.
Sculpture Now, HERRMANN & WAGNER, Berlin, Germany.
2006 „Naked Life“, MOCA Taipeh , China.
Plastiken "Kunstkörperlich – Körperkünstlich“. Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany.
Wunder der Prärie, zeitraum_exit! Büro für Kunst e.V., Mannheim, Germany.
Summer of Love, Virserums Konsthalle, Virserum, Sweden.
Alma Lov Biennial, Alma Lov Museum, Ostra Amtervik, Sweden.
Equinox, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Hic, Hart House Collective Exhibition, Hart House,University of Toronto, Canada.
Blown, Henderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
Lifeforms, Kinetica Museum, London, UK.
2005 figur skulptur, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria.
Blacklight Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Blown, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan,Saskatoon, Canada.
2004 Floating Worlds, Beacon Cultural Foundation, Beacon, New York, USA.
Cornflables! Inflatables Confiabili…, Lille, France.
Ironic Turn, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.
Plastica d’Artista, Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Contempranea, Pordenone, Italy.
Ironic Turn, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada.
Chassez le naturel…, 4th Liege Biennial, Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Liege, Belgium.
2003 The Ironic Turn, Faux Mouvement, Metz, France.
Du lilliputien au gigantesque: l’imaginaire de la démesure, Musée Régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada.
The Ironic Turn: Kanadische Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.
Il Palazzo delle Liberta, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, curated by Lorenzo Fusi, Siena, Italy.
The Mortal Coil, Ruminations on Human Physicality, Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
2002 Site-specific installation, Durham Regional Art Gallery, Durham Ontario, Canada.
2001 Good Place, curated by Manray Hsu, Hungjohn Lin and David Liss, Taichung, Taiwan.
Mortal, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2000 logocity, curated by Barbara Fischer, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Endgame, Alma Lov Museum, Ostra Amtervik, Sweden.
Balancing Act, curated by De Parel Gallery, Kunstvaai4, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1999 Balloon Disaster #3, The Art Firm, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Mediawave: International Media Festival, Gyor, Hungary.
1998 Between Body and Soul, Saidye Bronfman Centre and Concordia University Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
Version City, curated by John Massier, University of Buffalo Art Gallery.
Artifice, coordinated by Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada.
of bodies changed, Thames Art Gallery, Chattam Cultural Centre, Chattam, Ontario, Canada.
1997 Ulappa '97, symposium and exhibition, Turku, Finland.
1996 Once Upon a Time, curated by Joan Stebbins, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, USA.
1995 Nether Mind, collective exhibition, Toronto, Canada.
Hermit, symposium and exhibition, Plasy, Czech Republic.
1994 Naked State, curated by Louise Dompierre and Arthur Renwick, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada.
Mediatrics, coordinated by Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1993 Communion, curated by Deborah Boardman, Johnson County Arts Center, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
Nether Mind, collective exhibition, Toronto, Canada.
Hermit, symposium and exhibition, Plasy, Czech Republic.
1992 Nether Mind, collective exhibition, Toronto, Canada.
1991 Outrageous Desire, Rutger's University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Nether Mind, collective exhibition, Toronto, Canada.
1990 Panic and Fear, retail space installation, Eaton Centre, "The Works" festival, Edmonton, Canada.
1989 The Crossing, Bloor St. United Church, coordinated by Mediums Art Centre, Toronto, Canada.
WORKS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Various Private collections in Canada, South America and Europe
Sammlung Essl, Austria
Hermit Foundation, Czech Republic
Alma Lov Museum, Ostra Amtervik, Sweden
York University Collection, Canada
Cambridge Sculpture Garden, Canada
Canadian Art Foundation, Canada
Marat Inc. Collection, Toronto, Canada
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan