Max Athans


Max Athans is an artist working between Sculpture, Sound and Digital Media in Meanjin/Brisbane. Their work is concerned with hybrid beings, proxy bodies, and biological fantasies, often bridging physical forms and virtual images in uneasy tension. One day they will build a very tall tower


CV
Awards

Jeremy Hynes Award- 2025
Publications
Town Hall No. 3 - Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, 26 April 2025
A Louise Martin-Chew,  25 July 2025
Exhibitions  

2018- DOMINION, s0.s0 projects  
2019- 20XX, Group show, Lachlan McKee and Max Athans, Webb Gallery Griffith University
2019- Intercessors Theme, Solo show at Boxcopy   
2021- UMBILICAL, in Location Location Location, Outerspace Projection Programme  
2023- Late Transformation, Solo show, Wreckers Artspace  
2024- Senseless Allegory/ Urban Remystification Project, Group show with Felix Idle, Frost St
2025- A Narrow Strip Along a Steep Edge, Group show, Offsite at Fort Lytton
2025- Breathform, Solo show, Jeremy Hynes Award, IMA Brisbane
2026- House Of Dust, Group Show, TCB Melbourne
2026- Natural Disasters, Solo Show, CARPARK Brisbane
Commissions
2024- Video commission for Jasmine Togo Brisby, It is Not a Place, IMA  
2024- Design and Sculptural Commission for Natalya Hughes, An Entertainment and Ermyntrude and Esmeralda, Sullivan + Stumpf, NGV
2026-  Sculptural Comission, Spencer Harvie, Platform, IMA