With over 15 years of experience, I am a multidisciplinary artist/designer working across live performance, public space, installation, and narrative systems. I create environments that engage, elevated in form, grounded in reality. I believe exceptional work can emerge at any scale, from art installations in public parks, to large-scale opera.

I have deep faith in the capacity of human imagination. When accessed, art and narrative centered spatial design invokes a collective experience and unlocks communal dreaming and insight. It inspires trust, a willingness to step beyond oneself. It is selfless, impermanent, and urgent.

I am most alive when grappling with complex challenges, drawn to ideas that feel too large, too fragile, or structurally impossible. My strength lies in staying within that terrain of complexity with my collaborators and shaping worlds that can hold it.

My work flows across interwoven realms:

Design for Live Performance: I collaborate closely with directors, writers, and producers to build worlds that hold risk, transformation, and scale. I am drawn to ambitious, structurally complex work, shaping it into coherent spatial systems with internal logic, vessels where something volatile can occur.

Public & Civic Space: As co-founder | principal designer of Queens Lighting Collective, I create public art installations and lighting works that activate shared infrastructure and invite collective experience. This work is grounded in years of mutual aid in Queens and a commitment to equity and access. I approach public space with curiosity about human behavior, its contradictions, vulnerabilities, and possibilities, and a belief that art can expand how we gather and belong.

Self-Generated Multidisciplinary Work: I move between collaborative projects and work as a sole author, generating multidisciplinary environments where space is not a backdrop, but an active architecture for encounter. I was first trained as a painter at a liberal arts college, where I learned to study the world closely; that education sharpened my critical thinking as much as my eye. Desiring to learn more, I pursued an MFA in Design for Theatre at Yale, translating that intimacy of seeing into three-dimensional, live, and ephemeral work. I resist decoration for its own sake, and believe that every gesture must earn its presence. Across mediums, I originate projects that engage material systems, audience relationships, and form.

Narrative Spatial Artistry: Across all my work I develop narrative-driven spatial strategies and visual systems that align story, environment, and emotional experience. I work with collaborators to clarify what they are already reaching toward, revealing structure, sharpening language, and translating ambition into form. No matter the project, my role is to make the implicit visible, and to collaboratively shape what comes next.

CONTACT

Representation | United Talent Agency

Max Grossman max.grossman@unitedtalent.com

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Michael Griffo michael.griffo@unitedtalent.com