Insolation set for promise
Solar panels, float glass, steel, copper foil, lead came, solder, magnets
79.2 x 18.75 x 18 inches
Max Popov
Max Popov
Max Popov (b. 1997, Washington, DC) lives and works in New York City. He received a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2019. He has presented exhibitions and gatherings at Gordon Robichaux, New York; Parent Company (two-person with Imogen Brent), Brooklyn; Chatham Soccer, Chatham, NY; Kaleidoscope (two-person with Imogen Brent), Brooklyn; Shower, Seoul; Emily Harvey Foundation, New York; Swiss Institute, New York; and Putty’s Coronation (two-person with Zhi Wei Hiu), Brooklyn.
Works
Cenotaph for this building's former elevator
Recovered faux marble, miniature streetlights, flameless tealight, plywood, aluminum sheet and honeycomb, steel sheet, Con Edison’s 1939 World's Fair postcard, electrical components
5 x 50.25 x 5.25 inches
2026
Negative of an accident
Pottery plaster, ink jet print on paper, artist's frame
6.5 x 18.5 x 3 inches
2026
Standing stones from pennies from heaven and anyone
Plastic display base, found pennies, washers, tin foil, cardboard, electrical components
6.5 x 6.5 x 3.5 inches
2025-2026
The wreck buoy
Reduced window frame, float glass, copper foil, solder, styrofoam, tissue paper, acrylic paint, 3D resin print, found objects and personal effects, fairy lights, battery, power converter
10 x 8 x 7 inches
2024-2025
Yellow noise/beacon (to my grandmothers, Ofelia and Marina)
Reduced light fixture, vacuum fluorescent displays, circuit and antenna elements, magnet wire, magnets, gel sheet, drawing, rechargeable lead acid battery
12.25 x 6.25 x 5.5 inches
2024-2025
Exhibitions
Max Popov
Between you and me
Mar. 15–Apr. 26, 2026
Projects
