A young man with black hair, glasses, and tattoos standing outdoors during dusk with dark storm clouds in the sky.
A person with short dark hair and glasses, holding a camera, standing outdoors near a body of water and a distant shoreline.
A person standing on a subway platform, holding a drink, with a dark subway train in the background.
A black and white photo of a young man with light-colored, curly hair, wearing glasses, earrings, a patterned shirt over a plain t-shirt, and layered necklaces, standing against a brick wall.
Two young men stand in a photography studio with large windows and a sheer curtain. One wears a black t-shirt and pants, the other a striped t-shirt and shorts. Studio lights and equipment are visible in the background.
Black and white photo of a young person sitting on a stool in an art studio, with various artwork, shelves, and a chair in the background.
Two men standing indoors, each holding a program poster with the SpringHill logo, smiling at the camera.
A person with a camera stabilizer filming another person in an art gallery, both wearing masks.
A man with long hair, glasses, and a checked blazer standing with hands behind his back in an art gallery, with three large portraits on the wall behind him.
A person with short, spiky hair wearing glasses, a turtleneck, and a jacket, standing in a snowy environment at night.

various photo credits: lex cuevas, owen zubek, maclin bilski, and jarrod anderson

Maxmillian Peralta is a painter from Cleveland, Ohio. His most recent work, instead of focusing only on one type of subject, alludes to an atmosphere of tension, insecurity, and fear experienced personally but also often collectively by his generation. The work takes the form of highly-exacting acrylic renderings of spaces: tense domestic spaces and impossible exterior spaces.

He received his BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2021. His work has been exhibited at Pratt Institute in New York (NY), The Rhodes Tower in Columbus (OH), and CAN Triennial ‘22 in Cleveland (OH). His highest honors include a National American Visions’ Medal in 2017 with a painting of his accompanying the national “Art.Write.Now” Tour from 2017-2019. He was awarded the Anne Gund President’s Traveling Scholarship in 2021. He was also commissioned by LeBron James to paint the cover of the inaugural issue of his magazine The Program. Most recently, he was the recipient of the CAN Triennial Award Exhibition which resulted in work being shown in a solo exhibition at The Massillon Museum in summer of 2025.

He still resides in and works out of Cleveland.

Publications

The Satellite Fund, “Maxmillian Peralta - living Room”, August 2025

SpringHill Company, front cover, “The Program”, June 2022.

Amanda Koehn, front cover, “Who’s Next?”, Canvas Magazine, November 2021.

Aaron Leighton, “The Art of the Flex: A Study on Maxmillian Peralta.” Tykoon Magazine, 3 March 2021.

Awards

2025
Satellite Fund Recipient

2022
CARTA Purchase Prize

Massillon Museum CAN Triennial

Exhibition Prize

2021
Agnes Gund President’s Traveling Scholarship

2020
Ted Frost ‘88 Scholarship for Travel

2019
Frances Wise Lang and H. Jack Lang Scholarship for Painting

2018
Daniel H. Straffon Scholarship

2017
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National American Visions Award

Sue Wall Painting Award

Select Exhibitions

2026
[upcoming] living Room, The Foundation Forge, a Satellite Fund Project

2025
Flat Affect, Studio M Massillon Museum, solo exhibition

Vessel City Artist Expo Pop-Up, Vessel City w/ Rump Studios

Love is Resistance, CMA Transformer Station

2024
CIA Alumni Show, Reinberger Gallery, curated by Magdalena Moskalewicz

2022
CAN Triennial 2022: You Are Here, Downtown Neighborhood (The Galleries at CSU & Bonfoey Gallery), curated by Darius Steward

2021
Postmodern Drip, Cleveland Institute of Art, BFA Thesis

2020
Ligne de Vêtements, Ann + Norman Roulet Student & Alumni Gallery, w/ Ethan Bowman