Maxmillian Peralta is a painter from Cleveland, Ohio. His interest in fashion and dress was developed when he inherited all of his late grandfather’s tailor-made suits as a young man. Since then and until 2022, Maxmillian’s work drew inspiration from the exclusionary history of portraiture to examine the relationship between class and subcultures such as fashion.

In his most recent work, instead of focusing only on one type of subject, his work alludes to an atmosphere of tension, dread, and fear, experienced collectively by his generation. The work takes the form of highly exacting renderings of spaces: tense domestic spaces and impossible exteriors.

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. Most recently he was awarded the Anne Gund President’s Traveling Scholarship in 2021.