Max Flynn is a visual artist currently practicing in Boulder, Colorado. His current work seeks to engage with truth and reality, distorting them through found photographic materials. 

Max is from Edwards, Colorado, and was raised in a rural Christian community. Growing up as a closeted Queer person in this environment, he had a fascination with horror media, gaming, and the expression of visual art through these mediums. Here, he developed a habit of amassing collections of eclectic trinkets and strange objects. It was through these avenues that Max began experimenting with the concepts of identity, memory, trauma, and the Queer experience in his early art-making. Max enrolled at the University of Colorado Boulder as a recipient of the Polly and Mark Addison Scholarship. There, his work was featured in countless student-led exhibitions, such as the Love and Lust Sandbox Gallery and Whispers and Echoes, an ARTS 3020 exhibition he co-curated with students and faculty. Max’s early habits of accumulating absurd items manifested in this stage of his art practice, where he began obsessively collecting photographic ephemera. His use of found photographs began in 2023 and has been a core staple of his artistic practice since. Max won first place in the University of Colorado Boulder’s annual King Awards in 2026 and graduated that May with a BFA in Art Practices with distinction, specializing in Drawing and Painting.