Max Spitzer

b. 1990, Boston


Education


2021

2012

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    MFA, Visual Art
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
    BFA with Honors, Sculpture


Selected Exhibitions


2022


2021

2020

2019

2018
2017


2016


2013

2012




2011


2010

The Bagel (Tough Art 2022), Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Moderate Breeze, The Chute, Pittsburgh, PA
Exhibition #3, CA53776V2.gallery, Santa Barbara CA

Friends Forever, Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Teachable Moment, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
Artists’ Tools, Special Special, New York, NY
What Does a Pencil Know?, PLATFORM Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA three-person exhibition
Dandelion, Powder Room, Pittsburgh, PA solo exhibition
18 Wheeler, PLATFORM Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Shifting Space, Keene State College, Keene, NH
Fall and All, Gravity Gallery, North Adams, MA solo exhibition
Volume, Berkshire Artist Museum, North Adams, MA
Babel’s Bricks, Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
Shutters, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Porkshop TBD, 745 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY
Local Color, Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
Thank You, Come Again!, So What Space, Brooklyn, NY
Sugar Walls, 19th Street Space, Brooklyn, NY
Senior Invitational Show, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
Whiz Khids, Westminster Street, Providence, RI
I Give You: World World, Metcalf Gallery, Providence, RI two-person exhibition
Deepest Darkest Most Alone, Memorial Hall Gallery, Providence, RI
Tickling Your Eyeballs, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Sculpture Department Triennial, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
BARBARA, Weybosset Street, Providence, RI
Digital Plastic, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Mortise Collars Tenon, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
Lucky 13, North Bennington Art Park, Bennington, VT


Teaching

2022-present





2021-2022


2018-2021








2014-2018


2014-2018



2016-Present

Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI

Visiting Faculty, Department of Visual & Media Arts

        Making & Meaning (foundations studio art course)
        Time Studio (advanced visual studies studio course)
        Space Studio(advanced visual studies studio course)


Environmental Charter School, Pittsburgh, PA

Art teacher and curriculum leader for 6th through 8th grade


Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Art
        Concept Studio: Space & Time
       Introduction to Contextual Practice
        Senior Critique
       3D Studio: Introduction to Ceramic Sculpture
       Interdisciplinary Senior Studio
       3D Studio: Advanced Digital Fabrication

Berkshire Country Day School, Stockbridge, MA
Art Teacher for kindergarten through ninth grade

Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY
Education Program Manager and Studio Instructor

Independent Teaching Artist
Selected workshops include:
        Camp of Creative Inquiry, STUDIO of Creative Inquiry, Pittsburgh, PA
        Making Currency, ASSEMBLE, Pittsburgh, PA
        Geodesic Domes, ASSEMBLE, Pittsburgh, PA
        How To Critique Towards Love, School of the Alternative, Black Mountain, NC
        Collaborative / Composite, Common Folk Collective, North Adams, MA
        All Together Now, School of the Alternative, Black Mountain, NC


Residencies and Awards


2023
2022
2022

2019-2021
2018-2019
2018
2015
2012
2011
2010

Residency, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
Tough Art Residency, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Soaring Gardens Residency, Ora Lerman Charitable Trust, Laceyville, PA

GSA Provost GuSH Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Pittsburgh,PA
Konrad and Gisela Weiss Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Matched Savings Grant, Assets for Artists / Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
Residency / Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
John. A Chironna Scholarship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Residency / Internship, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY


Publications


2023
2022
2021
2020

Reading Materials (as editor - self published)
Exhibition #3 Catalog, CA53776V2.gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
On and In Critique (graduate thesis), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Artists’ Tools, Special Special Press, New York, NY