Max Presneill
  • 2025
  • 2020/4
  • About
  • CV
  • Contact
  • Essays
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
    • Drawings
  • Catalogs
  • curatorial
  • lectures
  • interviews
  • 2014 (figurative)
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2008-10 (large)
  • 2008-10 (small)
  • 2006-8
  • old west
  • Pre 2000
Max Presneill is a Los Angeles based artist and curator.
​He creates abstract paintings with figurative elements exploring existential drive, class and political sub-texts, tribalism, sub-cultural iconography, and masculine identity. He has exhibited throughout the world including New York, Miami, Mexico City, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Istanbul, Sydney, Beijing, Tokyo and other cities, in museums, art galleries, alternative spaces and art fairs. (see CV page)
He is the Director/Head Curator for the Torrance Art Museum (www.torranceartmuseum.com). He founded and is the Director of TRYST (2023-current), an international art fair for alternative galleries and artist-led initiatives. He is also part of the BLAM curatorial team, an international art festival showcasing artist-run initiatives from Berlin, Los Angeles and Mexico. He is Founder and a current member of Durden and Ray, an artist-run curatorial collaborative gallery in Los Angeles. He has extensive experience internationally as a curator having organized exhibitions for museums, institutes and galleries in the US and UK, the Netherlands, Japan, France, Mexico, China, Turkey, Australia, Germany, Austria, Norway and many more. 
His curatorial interests are with artist led projects, emerging art, new models for curatorial methodologies and an international scope for partnerships and exchanges.
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Room 114, 5th Column. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 64 inches
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Room 113, Dying Light. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 64 inches
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Room 112, Border Split. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 64 inches
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Room 111. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 64 inches
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Room 110, Exit Strategy. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 64 inches
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Room 109, Sea of Troubles. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 64 inches
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Room 108, Protest Point. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 64 inches
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Room 107, Flag Burning. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 64 inches
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Room 106, Taking the 5th. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 64 inches
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Room 105, The Voices Outside. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 64 inches
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Roadtrip. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 60 inches
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Room 104, Retaliate. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 64 inches
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Room 103, Bubble. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 64 inches
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Room 102, Resistance Is. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 96 inches
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Room 101, Chaos to Come. 2025. oil, acrylic, photo-transfer, sticker on canvas. 72 x 96 inches
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Helicopter 33-1. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint, photo-transfer on canvas. 36 x 36 inches
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Helicopter 33-2. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint, photo-transfer on canvas. 48 x 36 inches
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Helicopter 33-3. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint, photo-transfer on canvas. 48 x 36 inches
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1-1933. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas. 30 x 24 inches
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Helicopter 33-4. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint, photo-transfer on canvas. 48 x 36 inches
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2-1933. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas. 30 x 24 inches
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3-1933. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas. 30 x 24 inches
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5-1933. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas. 30 x 24 inches
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4-1933. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas. 30 x 24 inches
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6-1933. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas. 30 x 24 inches
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33-1. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas. 48 x 36 inches
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33-3. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas. 48 x 36 inches
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33-2. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas. 48 x 36 inches
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33-4. 2025. oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas. 48 x 36 inches
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