Max Rain - Resume


maxjrain@yahoo.com

www.maxrain.com

Education

2011   M.F.A., Art - UCLA
2007   B.F.A. Summa Cum Laude, Spatial Art, San Jose State University
   

Solo Exhibitions

2012   33 Drawings Around Dublin, Market Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2007   Pig and Friends: Animal Domestication and the Ubiquitous Adaptation of Fauna to the Urban Environment, Student Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2004   Modern Idols, Student Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

         
Selected Group Exhibitions

2015   Reagan Babies, Ms Barbers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015   Pedagogic Clay II, Frank M. Doyle Art Pavillion, Costa Mesa, CA
2014   Skull 2014, Donna Beam Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
2014   Coastline District Faculty Show, Coastline Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
2014   Unsparing Quality, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013   Apart Of This City, Max Rain & Jung Hwa Lee, Sabina Lee, Los Angeles, CA
2012   Link CultureFest, Block B, Dublin, Ireland
2011   FFS Pop-Up Gallery, in conjunction with Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny, Ireland
2011   Kimchi Sandwich MFA Thesis Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2011   Skull, Blackbird Studios, Las Vegas, NV
2010   LVSK8 IV, Place Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2010   Juried Zoomorphic, Meyers Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
2010   Earthbound, City Windows Gallery, San Jose, CA
2010   The Dobermen, CSN Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2009   Leave No Evidence, Meyers Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
2008   Not Fit For Human Consumption, Gallery 5, Richmond, VA
2008   SOFA New York Fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2008   Refused Art Exhibition, Element Lounge, San Francisco, CA
2008   SJSU Ceramic Show, Juried by Stan Welsh and Monica Van Den Dool, in conjunction with CCACA Ceramics Conference, Davis, CA
2008   Big Red Shiny 2, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, CA
2007   Max Rain, Eric C. Madsen, Cassandra Straubing, 12 & Taylor, San Jose, CA
2007   Gente, Casas y Barrios, MACLA, San Jose, CA
2006   Career Paths, Student Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2006   We Are Family: Artist Families, San Jose Museum Of Art, San Jose, CA
2006   Cross Contamination, Student Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2006   Regional Student Juried Exhibition, Juried by Nan Smith and Sam Chung, in conjunction with NCECA Conference, Northview Gallery, Portland, OR


Awards and Honors

2010   Elizabeth Heller Mandell Award
2009   Smith FWS Award
2007   Resident Artist at SJSU Ceramics Department, one year duration
2007   Joseph And Cheryl Battiato Ceramics Scholarship
2007   Helen Dooley Scholarship

Publications/Press

2015   Reagan Babies
2012   Some Kind Of Nature, MAMMUT, No. 5, Winter/Spring, 2012, p. 24
2007   Some Kind Of Nature, MAMMUT, No. 5, Winter/Spring, 2012, p. 24
2006   “Back To School…”, Clay Times, Vol. 12 No. 5, September/October, 2006, p.11

Relevant Employment

2014-2015   Beginning Ceramics Instructor, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
2015   Substitute Instructor, Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, Santa Monica, CA
2012- 2014   Sign Artist, Trader Joes, Los Angeles, CA
2010-2011   Beginning Ceramics Instructor, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
2010   Life Drawing Instructor, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2009-2011   Teacher’s Assistant for Beginning and Advanced Ceramics, UCLA, CA
2008   Fabricated Armatures and Sculptures of Human Aorta and Proximal Arteries, Square One Medical Instruments, Mountain View, CA
2006-2009   Sign Artist, Trader Joes, Los Altos, CA
2006-2007   Teachers assistant for Beginning and Advanced Ceramics, SJSU, CA
2006   Teachers assistant for Figure Modeling, SJSU, CA


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