email inquires: maxwell.runko@gmail.com
b. 1994, Long Island, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
2016 BFA Sculpture and Extended Media, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 Unrestrained Consumption, Funeral Gallery, Portland, OR
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Schooner, Aruga Fine Arts, Miami, FL
2025 Part Three, Company Gallery, New York, NY
2025 Give Them the Fantasy, Design Dysphoria at Gotham Chelsea, New York, NY
2025 Last Year I Knew Nothing, Kaleidoscope Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Home Grown, Hauser + Wirth (online exhibition), New York, NY
2019 Stacy’s Store (in collaboration with Grace Whiteside), Agnas Varis Art Center, URBN Glass, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Rear Projection, HI Richmond Hostel Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 Love Y’all (in collaboration with Park Hyun Gi), Black Iris Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 Juried Undergraduate Show – Intervention, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 BYOS/BYOS, Sediment Gallery, Richmond, VA
2014 Two Hustler's Artist Grant Exhibition, Studio Formichetti, New York, NY
2014 Yesterday's Latte, Atlantis Gallery, Richmond, VA
2014 Untitled, Monument City Coffee and Records, Richmond, VA
2014 Big Print Competition, POHO Gallery, Richmond, VA
2014 Juried Undergraduate Show, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
2013 60x60x60, Grace St Theater, Richmond, VA
2018 Ghost, MOB Gallery, Richmond, VA
2012 Untitled, Studio Flux, Ashland, VA
Honors and Awards
2016 Jose Puig Award, VCU Sculpture Department, Richmond, VA
2015 Charles Renick Scholarship, VCU Sculpture Dept, Richmond, VA
2014 Peachtree Scholarship, VCU Sculpture Department, Richmond, VA
2013 Most Beautiful Minute, 60x60x60, VCUarts Foundation, Richmond, VA
2013 James K. Polk Scholarship, VCUarts Foundation, Richmond, VA
Bibliography
2018 GayLetter, Featured Art for Savage Ranch Artist Residency, New York, NY
2017 Estuaries #1 Zine, contributor (online)
2016 VCUarts Spotlight, Featured Artist/Interview, Richmond, VA
2015 Studio Collective, Featured Artist/Interview, Blacksburg, VA
2014 Ink Magazine, Featured Artist/Interview, Richmond, VA
2014 Interview Magazine, "Who's that guy?,” New York, NY
2013 Carpaccio Magazine, Featured Artist, Rome, Italy