Max Lester

(b. 1996)

Education:

2023 - present                Piet Zwart Institute

2021                          OCAD University, Toronto

Solo Exhibitions

2021                                     Behind These Strange Sensations are Hidden Structures, Inter/Access, Toronto

2019                                     A Fault Line in Me is a Fault Line in You, Bunker 2, Toronto

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2024                                   In Every Cacophony There is Harmony, Piet Zwart Institue, Rotterdam

2022                                   Danser en attendant (la fin du monde), Eastern Bloc, Montréal

2021                                   Inter/Ruptures, United Contemporary, Toronto

2020                                  Modes of Inhabiting, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto

Selected Performances, Screenings, Panels & Workshops:

2022                                   AFTER THE END, WHAT’S NEXT?, Panel, Sight and Sound Festival, Eastern Bloc, Montreal

2021                                   Reading Circle, Facilitator, Inter/Access, Toronto

2021                                   Expanding on the Real: Experiments in Adobe After Effects, Workshop, Inter/Access, Toronto

2020                                  Debauched Orchestra, Performance, Xpace x Virtual Social, Xpace, Toronto

2019                                   This Mask is my Face, Performance, Bunker 2, Toronto

2019                                   Debauched Orchestra, Performance, Komite No.1, Unit 2, Toronto

2017                                   Skin, OCAD U Moving Image Festival, Toronto

Residencies:

2019                                   Artist in Residence, Bunker 2, Toronto

Publications:

2020                                   A Tending to Things, editor and contributor, OCAD University, Toronto

2019                                   A Fault Line in Me is a Fault Line in You, author, Successful Press, Toronto

Awards:

2020                                   Integrated Media Faculty Award, OCAD University

2020                                   InterAccess Media Arts Award & Prize, OCAD University

Related Experience:

2020-2021                       Project Coordinator & Communications, Gallery TPW, Toronto

2022                                   Assistant Video Editor, Eyesful Productions, Toronto