Artists

Max Steven Grossman is a Colombian photographer best known for his Bookscapes series, large-scale composite photographs of bookshelves organized around specific themes such as architecture, music, fashion, or sports. By digitally stitching together images of stacks from shops, libraries, and private collections, Grossman constructs monumental “shelves” that blur the line between documentation and invention. The resulting works, some over eight feet high, interrogate the relationship between reality and fantasy, while reflecting on the impact of the digital age on photography, knowledge, and the materiality of books.

Grossman originally trained in engineering, graduating from the University of Philadelphia in 1994, before pursuing photography at New York University and the International Center of Photography, where he earned an MA in 2000. His dual background informs his practice, which balances precision and structure with imagination and conceptual inquiry.

His work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries in Colombia—including the Museum of Modern Art in Cartagena, the Museum of Modern Art in Barranquilla, and Beatriz Esguerra Art in Bogotá—as well as internationally in Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, Panama, Hong Kong, and the United States. Grossman has also participated in numerous international art fairs, including ARTBO (Bogotá), Art Wynwood (Miami), Art Southampton (Long Island), the Dallas Art Fair, and ArteBA (Buenos Aires).