Bio
Max Mirnov is an award-winning artist with international recognition in the art and creative industry. Lives and works in Miami, USA.
From 2023 to 2025 he lived and worked in Japan, participating in exhibitions in Tokyo and Nagoya.
In 2019 he received the international Grand Prix in the field of product design in Japan at the JAPAN DESIGN WEEK competition. The victory was won in a serious competition among 1200 participants consisting of professional design studios from all over the world.
In 2023, following an International Grand Prix and the institutional recognition of his contribution to the contemporary aesthetic landscape, Mirnov was granted a long-term (5-year) residency in Japan. This status has enabled him to continue his creative practice in Tokyo and Nagoya, where his works have been featured in major exhibitions and have integrated into the region’s professional discourse.
Participant of the project at the Venice Biennale, exhibited in the USA, Belgium, UAE, Great Britain, Japan and other countries.
He entered the TOP 20 best Ukrainian artists under the age of 35 at the Young Artists of Ukraine (YUA) competition.
Since 2020, he has been creating the style and image of the Ukrainian music award A Prize. The sculpture created by him became the prototype of the statuette of the national award and is exclusively made by Max for the award every year by hand, which increases the value of the prize. For the A Prize, his participation is honored, Max Mirnov presents awards to Ukrainian stars personally on the stage.
Max Mirnov is the founder and main jury member of the MART PRIZE. Awarded for the best design of a music album created by Ukrainian artists.
His practice operates at the intersection of contemporary art, architecture, design, and technology, utilizing conceptual frameworks to address urgent global shifts. By navigating the complexities of biodiversity, ecological integrity, and social transformation, he redefines the viewer’s relationship with the environment. In his work, the core concept dictates the form, whether it manifests as a museum installation or a sophisticated spatial design, ensuring a profound dialogue between artistic vision and planetary ethics.
With a strong academic foundation in painting, drawing, and a wide range of artistic techniques: 6 years of study at the National Academy of Art (Master’s Degree in Graphic Art) and 5 years at the Institute of Decorative Arts and Design (Bachelor’s Degree in Design), graduating with honors.
Selected Creative Collaborations & Brand Authorship:
UNDP, Coca-Cola, WWF, Vodafone, Nestle, Hyundai, LVMH, Mercedes, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Google, and others.
CV
Awards:
Selected Resident (Top-12 Annual Selection) — U.S. National Art Residency «Noche de Arte» at InterContinental Miami, USA 2026 — 2027
2nd place Winner & National Finalist, 250th Anniversary of Independence, CityCenterDC &
Hines, D.C., USA 2026
Curatorial Selection Award (Solo Project) Fridge Art Fair, Art Week Miami, Miami, FL, USA 2025
Selected Featured Artist Downtown Miami Art Walk, Les Couleurs Gallery, Miami FL, USA 2025
Official Juried Program Selection The Artist’s Circle Gallery Orange Exhibit, Tyler, TX, USA 2021
International Award of Merit: (RE)Imagining Europe Global Competition, Zagreb, Croatia, 2020
First Degree Laureate Award «Art Axis» Poland-Ukraine, 2020
Grand Prix URESHINO DESIGN WEEK /JAPAN/ 2019
Invited International Artist First Emirates Int’l Poster Festival /Dubai Design Week, 2019
International Distinction Award, The Malta Festival, Poland, 2019
Conceptual Innovation Award “UNIT.City Art Prize” Kyiv 2017
Third Place Award «Young Ukrainian Artists» /MUHi/ Ukraine 2012
Prize Laureate «The Image of Future» (First National City Sculpture Contest), Kyiv, 2011
Grand Prix “Authenticity in advertising” — Award of Armenian Ad Festival, 2010
Bronze EFFIE AWARDS UKRAINE 2009
Shortlist KMFR Kyiv, Ukraine 2009
Gold, in the Best Video category, UA Expert Ukraine 2008
Gold, in Outdoor UA Expert Ukraine 2008
Gold, in press UA Expert Ukraine 2008
Silver, UA Expert Ukraine 2008
Bronze UA Expert Ukraine 2008
Gold KMFR Ukraine 2008
Gold in Video, KMFR Kyiv, Ukraine 2007
Gold in Outdoor, KMFR Kyiv, Ukraine 2007
Silver, KMFR Kyiv, Ukraine 2007
Bronze KMFR Kyiv, Ukraine 2007
Shortlist «MMFR» Moscow, Russia, 2007
Gold in Best Outdoor, KAKADU Kyiv, Ukraine 2007
Silver in Video category KAKADU, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2007
Bronze KAKADU Kyiv, Ukraine 2007
Bronze Gold Propeller, Ukraine 2007
Grand Prix UA Expert Ad Contest Kyiv, 2006
2nd place REX Kyiv, Ukraine 2006
Shortlist «MMFR» Moscow, Russia, 2006
Bronze KMFR Kyiv, Ukraine 2006
Special award jury KMFR Kyiv, Ukraine 2005
2nd place REX Kyiv, Ukraine 2005
Shortlist «Idea» Moscow, Russia 2005
Gold REX Ad Festival Kyiv, Ukraine 2004
Finalist Social Poster Contest, Kyiv 2003
Silver, Moscow International Ad Festival, Russia 2003
Bronze Moscow International Ad Festival, Russia 2003
Special prize, Companion Magazine, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2002
Special prize 111 Club, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2002
Shortlist in the ‘Social AD’ competition organized by Saatchi & Saatchi, 2002
Bronze in the “New Names“ competition organized by Saatchi & Saatchi, 2001
Selected Group Exhibitions
Art Basel Miami, «211 days», Miami Beach FL, USA 2025
Downtown Miami Art Walk by Aura Copeland Gallery, Miami, FL, 2025
Rooted in Culture, Cultural Pavilion, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL, USA 2025
Himawari exhibition by JUCA, Nagoya, JAPAN 2024
Ukrainian Days Festival, Apa Conference hall, Chiba, JAPAN 2023
NFT Exhibition by Goldens, Ukraine, Int, 2022
Anniversary pre-auction exhibition of the “Golden Ratio”, Kyiv, 2022
The Artist’s Circle Gallery Orange Exhibit, TX, USA 2021
«Peace be with you» poster show at the Moscow International Biennale, 2021
Scotland’s International Graphic Design Festival, Scotland,2021
International project «Art Axis», Warsaw, Krakow, Budapest, Lviv Palace of Arts, 2020
(RE)IMAGINING EUROPE, Museum of Arts, Ministry of Culture of Croatia, Zagreb, Brussels, Belgium, 2020
Theater Int’l poster Exhibition, Odessa, 2020
«Chekhov-160″ STRELKA biennale 2020.
Participant of the National Pavilion of Ukraine at the 58th Venice Biennale, ITALY, 2019
First Emirates Int’l Poster Festival /Dubai Design Week, 2019
Miru Mir, Moscow, 2019
“А4”, Karas Gallery, Kyiv, 2016 – 2019
LAGI /the World Future Energy Summit. Abu Dhabi, 2019
“Smurfit Kappa Better Planet» design challenge exhibition, Dublin, Ireland, 2019
“Ukraine Still-Life” Contemporary Art Research Institute, 2018
“Trinus design“ exhibition in collaboration with Sapporo, Tokyo, JAPAN, 2018
Auction exhibition of Contemporary Art, Kyiv 2018
“GogolFest”, Kyiv 2017
V International Festival «Book Arsenal», Kyiv 2016
«Landscape», Arsenal /National Cultural Arts & Museum Complex, Kyiv 2015
Pre-auction exhibition of the Contemporary Art, “Golden Ratio”, Kyiv, 2010-2015
«Art Vilnius» Lithuania, 2014 .
“GogolFest”, 2013“Ball Point”, Karas Gallery, 2013
Pre-auction exhibition of the Contemporary Art, “Golden Ratio”, 2013
«Art-Heat«, Karas Gallery. Kyiv, 2012
Exhibition of Moscow International Ad Festival, 2007
Pre-auction exhibition of the Contemporary Art, “Golden Ratio”, 2012
“The shape of the Void», Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, 2011
“Abstract vision test”, Ya gallery, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, 2011
Pre-auction exhibition of the Contemporary Art, “Golden Ratio”, 2011
II International Art Project «AUT 2011», Museum of Contemporary Art Ukraine, 2011
«The Image of Future» (First National City Sculpture Exhibition-Contest) 2011
GOGOLFEST Ukraine 2010
Pre-auction exhibition of the Ukrainian Young Contemporary Art, 2010
REX Gallery at the 12th World Trade Show, Ukraine 2009
UA* Expert Ad Exhibition-contest, Kyiv, 2008
Golden Drum Exhibition, Slovakia 2007
IDEA Russian Ad Festival, 2007
Kyiv’s Landscape Exhibition KMDA, Kyiv 2005
«Popok Festival» 1st International festival, Erevan /Armenia, 2006 «.
Exhibition within the framework of the «REX Festival», Kyiv 2006
Dialog Ad Festival, Sankt Petersburg, 2005
Exhibition within the framework of the Moscow International Ad Festival, 2005
Kyiv International Ad Festival /KIAF/, 2005
IDEA Russian Ad Festival, Moscow 2005
Tomsk Lions Ad Festival Russia 2004
Social Poster Exhibition-contest, Kyiv 2003
Exhibition of the Moscow International Ad Festival, Russia, 2003
/KIAF/ Kiev international Ad Festival, Ukraine, 2003
‘Talent Against Drugs’ Exhibition-contest organized by Saatchi & Saatchi, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2002
Alumni Exhibition of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2001
“New Names“Exhibition organized by Saatchi & Saatchi, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2001
Exhibition of Сorporate style and design concept for The Ministry of Culture and Arts, Kyiv, 2000
International Women’s Day Exhibition, NAOMA Gallery, Kyiv, 2000
All-Ukrainian exhibition of graphics, Central House of the Artist of Ukraine, 1999
Ex Libris Art exhibition, Mitets gallery, Kyiv, 1998
All-Ukrainian exhibition-competition named after Heorhiy Narbut, Kyiv, 1997
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
«I765. New Life» Fridge Art Fair, Art Week Miami, Miami FL, USA 2025
«Tokyo Layers», 93 Art Space, Tokyo, JAPAN 2024
“Roots of Ukraine” Artvark Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2023
Ninja Art, Ureshino Design Week, Ureshino, JAPAN/ 2019
«Generation Z» Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine 2019
”Modern Still-Life” Zhitniy Market Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2017
«6×6» Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014
Exhibition «Е 2012» /MUHi project/ young contemporary art, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012
Exhibition «12 (360)», Karas Gallery. Kyiv, Ukraine 2010
Exhibition Banks not dead. Kyiv, Ukraine, 2010
«The Guerilla» project «Ukrainian indifference»: Art-Kyiv contemporary 2009,
in the exhibition Against Exclusion in the Garage, of the Moscow Biennale 2009,
In the exhibition of the shortlisted PinchukArtCentre Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009
«World of Ex Libris», Turivska Gallery, 2007
Selected Public Art & Monumental Projects:
2022–present | Open-Air Public Exhibitions & Conceptual Staging
Role: Co-Creator & Art Director
A series of site-specific public installations spanning major European capitals, including Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Vilnius, Tallinn, Riga, Amsterdam, and Helsinki. Contributing as Co-creator and Art Director, the role focused on transforming multi-ton captured military hardware on central historic squares into powerful visual monuments, generating extensive global press coverage and intense public engagement.
Education:
National Academy of Arts and Architecture
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Graphic Arts /Thesis Project: Official Corporate Style and Visual Identity System for the Ministry of Culture and Arts/ /Graduated with Honors/
State Institute of Applied Art and Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts (with Honors) in Industrial Design
Artist Statement
Max Mirnov is a conceptual contemporary artist whose practice investigates the psychological, ecological, and cultural tensions shaping contemporary life. His works examine how consumption, biodiversity loss, displacement, and systems of overproduction influence human perception and emotional resilience.
Working across installation, sculptural forms, transformed materials, and time-based conceptual structures, Mirnov creates environments that challenge viewers to confront the fragile balance between the natural world and the constructed systems that define modern existence. His visual language often incorporates numerical or textual codes — subtle markers of time, adaptation, or ecological fragility — turning personal experience into spatial and conceptual architecture.
Mirnov’s practice draws on a deep sensitivity to material transformation: everyday objects are reconfigured into symbolic structures that question value, function, and the ethics of contemporary living. Rather than persuading or illustrating, his works create spaces for critical reflection — moments where habitual perception slows and new forms of awareness emerge.
With ancestral roots in the same Carpathian region as the Warhola family, Mirnov grew up acutely aware of how visual language forms identity, myth, and collective imagination. This cultural lineage informs his interest in the tension between mass culture and individual perception.
Mirnov’s practice ultimately invites viewers to slow down, question the familiar, and recognize the fragile space where consumption ends and contemplation begins.