Born 1989, Russia · Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY 

Max Mesiats explores the phenomenon of post-photography—a space where the photographic image has lost its stability and truth yet gained new poetic potential. His practice examines how visual language functions within technological mediation and displacement. Working with 35 mm film, AI systems, and mixed-media installation, Mesiats investigates the dialogue between analog perception and algorithmic imagination. He is drawn to moments when technology begins to dream—when its errors and distortions reveal something deeply human, exposing how images, whether captured or generated, shape memory, identity, and belief in the post-truth age.

Education:

2006-2011 Voronezh State Technical University , degree in "Computer Aided Design Systems"

2012–2013 College of Fine Arts of Voronezh, Coursework in Painting and Fine Art 

2014- 2017 Rodchenko Art School, Moscow, degree in “Art of photography and multimedia”

2017 - 2018 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Philosophy of Art Program

Awards

2018 Short-list of the award of Sergey Kuryokhin, nomination "The best media object" 

Selected group exhibitions:

2025 — Wrong Biennale, Phantom Gaze Online Pavilion

2021 — Windmill, Center for Contemporary Art, Ulyanovsk

2019 — I’m Not a Robot, Electromuseum, Moscow

2018 — Moscow–Kazan–Moscow, Tsarskaya Tower Gallery, Moscow

2017 — Documentary Sculpture, Electromuseum, Moscow

2017 — 8th Level, Center for Contemporary Art “Winzavod”, Moscow

2016 — Contour Change × Research_Arts, “Iskra” Festival, Kazan

2015 — The Game of Spillikins, Gallery “Zagorje”, Moscow

2015 — Summit of Knowledge, Festival “Bible-2015”, Cultural Center “ZIL”, Moscow

2015 — Museum Business, 13th International Festival “Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum”, Gallery “Artmuz”, St. Petersburg