Max Guy works with paper, video, performance, assemblage, and installation. Guy uses fast, ergonomic ways to make poetry of the world, filtering it through personal effects. He is inspired by various creative communities he’s been immersed in since childhood. He embraces amateurism as a love of doing, and prioritizes study over containment. Guy describes his work as “eclectic”—each piece approaches a topic only tangentially. Guy received a BFA in 2011 from Maryland Institute College of Art and MFA in 2016 from Northwestern University.    

Select solo and two-person exhibitions include The Renaissance Society (Chicago, IL), Centralbanken (Oslo, Norway), Good Weather (Chicago, IL), and Romance (Pittsburgh, PA). Select group shows include The Drawing Room at The Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL), Jack Shainman and Nicola Vassell (New York, NY), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL), Laurel Gitlen (New York, NY), Canal Street Research Association (New York, NY), Krannert Museum of Art (Urbana-Champaign, IL), Apparatus Projects (Chicago, IL), Prairie (Chicago, IL), and Malmö Museum of Art (Malmö, Sweden) among others.