Max Dean (artist)

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Max Dean
Born (1949-06-29) June 29, 1949 (age 74) [1]
Leeds, England
NationalityCanadian
OccupationArtist
Notable workThe Table: Childhood
Robotic Chair

Max Dean (born June 29, 1949) is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist. [2] [3] [4]

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Life

Dean was born June 29, 1949, in Leeds, England. He immigrated to Canada with his family in 1952, [5] settling in Vancouver. [1]

Work

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Dean did multimedia performances involving his body in conjunction with sound, photography and other media. [6] [7] [8] Dean`s Telephone Project (1982) was an installation that allowed up to 16 persons to talk on a telephone line. [9]

Since the 1980s, Dean has become known for his installations that use robotics and electronics to achieve artistic effects. [10] His work As Yet Untitled (1992-1995) involves a robotic arm that presents generic family photos to the viewer, who must act to prevent the photo from being immediately shredded. [11] [12] [13] [14] The piece received extensive press and critical coverage [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] and was acquired by the Art Gallery of Ontario. [20]

Dean has collaborated extensively with Cornell University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Raffaello D'Andrea. Between 2003 and 2006 [21] they collaborated with Canadian artist Matt Donovan to create the installation work Robotic Chair, a chair that falls apart and puts itself back together again without human intervention. [22] [23] [24] Dean also collaborated with D'Andrea on the work The Table: Childhood, which was included in the Arsenale section of the 2001 Venice Biennale. [2] [25] [26]

He is the subject of Katherine Knight's 2021 documentary film Still Max . [27] In 2022, the Portrait Gallery of Canada organized Max Dean: Portrait of the Artist as Artist, an online exhibition curated by Ann Thomas as guest curator. [28]

Collections

Dean's work is included in several museum collections, including the National Gallery of Canada [2] and the Vancouver Art Gallery. [29] His piece As Yet Untitled is part of the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. [20]

Awards

In 1997, Dean received the Jean A. Chalmers National Visual Arts Award from the Ontario Arts Council. [30] In 2005, Dean received the Gershon Iskowitz prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario. [5] [31] In 2014, he was a recipient of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. [3]

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