Bio
Max Rippon is an artist and curator based in Los Angeles. His studio practice and archival project Artist News Network examine the narratives, distortions, and psychological impact of contemporary news media. His research and curatorial work often overlap, as he collects and archives news stories through dialogue with other artists while developing work from these exchanges. Through this process, he considers how images, relationships, language, media systems, and authorship shape public understanding of the past, present, and future.
His research is translated into drawings, paintings, and print-based works that pull from screenshots, headlines, and digitally circulated images sourced from contemporary news platforms. These fragments are reworked by hand through laborious methods that accentuate the slippage between image capture, distortion, and interpretation. By slowing down and reworking forms designed for rapid consumption, he examines how mediated images can both accumulate and shed meaning, authority, and emotional weight over time.
Rippon received his BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and completed a postgraduate course in the Curation of Public Art at HDK-Valand Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden. His work has been exhibited at Jeffrey Deitch (New York, NY), Pio Pico (Los Angeles, CA), Wonzimer (Los Angeles, CA), SPRING/BREAK Art Fair (Los Angeles, CA), Maple St. Collective (Omaha, NE), Aloïse (Barcelona, Spain), and Museo Muñoz Sola de Arte (Tudela, Spain). He has participated in artist residencies at the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Austria, and the Penthouse Artist Residency in Brussels, Belgium, organized by Harlan Levey Projects.
Since 2024, he has served as the head curator of the annual Venice Family Clinic Art Exhibition + Auction. Now in its 47th year, the exhibition raises critical funds for the Los Angeles-based nonprofit, which provides accessible healthcare and resources to those in need. He has independently curated exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (Los Angeles, CA), Wonzimer Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), and a public exhibition of video and installation works around Echo Park Lake (Los Angeles, CA) during the lockdown of 2020.
