Max Devereaux

Max Devereaux (b. 1994) is an American artist, musician, and filmmaker whose work moves fluidly between sound, image, and performance. Raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was shaped by the city’s cultural fabric—its museums, concert halls, and historic movie theaters—which sparked an early fascination with storytelling across forms. Largely self-taught, he developed his practice outside academia through obsessive study and hands-on experimentation. Devereaux’s work is defined by its range and intensity. His output spans experimental improvisation, indie country, outsider film, abstract painting, ikebana flower arranging, and electroacoustic composition. Often these modes converge into hybrid, cross-disciplinary forms that resist easy categorization. Guided more by intuition and lo-fi aesthetics than by formal training, he has built a practice centered on invention and personal mythology. His filmmaking career has unfolded in distinct phases. As a teenager, he created stop-motion anima...