Max Hooper Schneider

Max Hooper Schneider (born 1982 in Santa Monica, California) is an American instal!ation art!ist and sculptor who is most noted for bringing terrariums and aquariums together with neon in his own hybrid works of art.

Biography

Hooper Scheider had an early start indulging in his love for aquariums when he had a job cleaning them as a teenager working in Beverly Hills. He went onto receive a master's degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

In 2012 Hooper Schneider created what is seemingly a permanent work in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia by coating an 8m² area of rock with phosphorescent pigment for his piece "Mineral Complex" as part of the 2nd Mongolia 360° Land Art Biennial. It is said that this parcel of land will remain aglow for the next some odd three centuries.

Hooper's work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions including at "The Pound" at Jenny's from November 7 until December 21, 2014 and "Accidental Menagerie" which ran from May 29 until July 11, 2015 at Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery in Los Angeles.

In New York City Hooper Schneider work was on view at Team Gallery (September 8 – October 9, 2016) in the exhibition "Dolores" organized by Todd Von Ammon. Alex Greenberger writing in ArtNews in writing of his work in the show said "Schneider’s work tends toward dramatic, oddball situations". Hooper will be the subject of the next BMW Art Journey series at the upcoming 2017 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach.

Hooper Schneider's work was included in the group show "Theories of Forgetting" at the Gagosian Gallery (curated by Aaron Moulton) in Beverly Hills which was up from July 9 until August 21, 2017. Hooper Schneider's work "Aral Spring Trolley" (2014) is currently on view at the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in an exhibition of recent acquisitions (August 26, 2017 – January 7, 2018) and his work "Section of Intertidal Landscape (Hair Metastasis)" is included in the show "Mutations" on the Highline in Manhattan (April 2017 – March 2018).