Max Hooper Schneider’s polymathic practice brings together the fields of biology, philosophy, and landscape architecture to create objects and environments that speculate on entropic forces and posthuman forms. He develops and explores the aesthetics of succession, abandonment, and the uncanny through habitat-like artworks that materialize and dramatize natural and artificial systems. With a deeply researched practice that draws upon fieldwork around the world, Hooper Schneider defamiliarizes human-centered time scales and material culture, returning time and again to the strangenesses and symbioses that have preceded and that will outlast human civilization.

Hooper Schneider received his Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and his Bachelor’s degrees in Urban Design and Biology from New York University. His prominent museum solo exhibitions include UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, MO.CO Montpellier, and the Hammer Museum. Group exhibitions include Centre Pompidou-Metz, Schinkel Pavillon, Leeum Museum of Art, and Musée d’art moderne de Paris. Hooper Schneider has been included in a number of international biennial exhibitions, including the Gwangju Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, and Baltic Triennial. His works are held in major public collections including the Hammer Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, Musée d’art moderne Paris, Rubell Museum, and Fondation Lafayette. He lives and works in Los Angeles.