Max Tolleson is a critic, curator, and historian of modern and contemporary art and was a 2023- 2025 critic-in-residence at the Core Program: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Max’s writing has been published in Artnet News, ASAP/J, F Magazine, Glasstire, and Panorama, among other publications, and he has presented his research at the Getty Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2024, Max curated Mimi Bowman: RINSE at The Car Wash (Houston, TX) and in 2025 he curated The Middle of Somewhere at the MFAH. Max received an MA and PhD in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BA in art history from Bard College. He was a 2022-2023 Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City.
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