2026, CAS Travel Fund Award; 2025, Julian Park Publication Fund; 2023, Foundation for Contemporary Arts; 2023, New York State Council on the Arts; 2017, Foundation for Contemporary Arts; 2017, NYSCA Media Arts Assistance Fund; 2012, Kaplan Institute for the Humanities; 2010, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Fdn; 2010, Leon Levy Foundation Grant; 2010, Experimental Television Center 2010; Harpo Foundation; 2006, MIT Council for the Arts; 1999, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Residencies and Fellowships
2026, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, IT Hotelpupik, Scheifling, AU; 2023, Humanities Institute, UB Fellowship/Hallwalls scholars talk; 2016, MacDowell, Artist Residency; 2015, The Drawing Center, “Open Sessions”; 2016, Laboratory, NY 2010 MacDowell, Artist Residency; 2002, MacDowell, Artist Residency; 2001, Art Omi International Art Center; 1999 , Skowhegan, ME
Solo Exhibitions
2026, Debris Syllabary, Lincoln Arts Centre, University of Lincoln. Lincoln, UK;
Debris Syllabary, Calle de la Donzella. San Polo, Venice, Italy; Artifact, Fiendish Plots, Lincoln, NE ; 2025, Numbers Outtakes, Click Ten Project Gallery, Beijing, China; 2024 , Archive, The Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; 2023, Numbers Station, Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY *with exhibition publication; Erie County, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY *exhibition catalog (Wolf); A Many-Sided House, Oakville Gallery, Ontario, Canada (Wolf) ;2022, Rivers, Threads, Folds, Art Cake,Brooklyn, NY (Wolf) ;2019, Repeater, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY *with exhibition publication; Wolf Tones, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Wolf); 2013, Signals’, Doubles. Gridspace, Brooklyn, NY ; 2012, Descend, Weinberg Gallery, Northwestern University Department of Art, Theory, Criticism, Evanston, IL ; 2011, The Deep Cycle, Lost Coast Culture Machine. Ft. Bragg, CA *with exhibition and publication; 2009 , Relay, Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 2006, Things Armature, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT; 2002, Search Engine / Siege Engine, Sara, Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY; 2000, Empyre, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Curated Group Exhibitions
2026, Catastrophe & Diagram, The Museum of Cold, Buffalo, NY;
Hotelpupik,exhibition curator Heimo Wallner in Scheifling, Austria; 2025, From the Stomach and the Imagination, curator Timo Kappeller, The Campus, Hudson, NY; (Wolf)Home and Work, curator Linda Mussman, Time & Space Limited, 3-person exhibition, Hudson, NY; Social Minimalism, curator Theodoros Triandos, UB Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY; Heathscapes, Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY; Translation, curator Mina Takahashi, Bushel Gallery, Delhi, NY; 2024, The Voracious Eye, curator Joan Grubin, The Opalka Gallery of Russell Sage College, Albany, NY (Wolf); 2023, Radiophrenia, curator Mark Vernon, Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland; Amid/In, curator John Massier, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY *exhibition catalog Multidisciplinary Practice in Contemporary Art, curator Nick Ruth, Davis Gallery, Geneva, NY; Cultural Commodities, curator Ullyses Atwhen, Box Gallery, Buffalo, NY;
2020, Wolf Tones, Derek Eller Gallery, NY (Wolf); 2019, One Day at a Time, drawings included in Nancy Shaver installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, LA, CA; 2018, Reports, September Gallery, Hudson, NY *exhibition publication; 2017, Viva Arte Viva, Sculptures included in Nancy Shaver installation, Arsenale, Venice Biennale, IT; Exstrange, online exhibition curated by Marialaura Ghidini & Rebekah Modrak; Post-Industrial Ephemera: Soundings, Gestures and Poetics, Silo City, Buffalo, NY; 2016, Architectural, curator Sandy Litchfield, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; 2015, Name It By Trying To Name It, The Drawing Center, NY OS4: Transitional Objects, The Drawing Center, NY *exhibition publication; Lines of Thought, curator Klaas Hoek, MaHKU, Utrecht, NL; 2014, The Development, curator Jocelyn Edens, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale, NY; Substrate, Metrospace, Detroit, MI; 2013, Groundswell, curator Galen Joseph-Hunter, Olana State Park, NY; Heavy Equipment, CR10 Contemporary Art Space, Linlithgo, NY; A Haven, curator Alex Young, ACNY, Brooklyn, NY; 2012, Observer/Reactor, curator Robert Blackson, Temple Contemporary, Temple University Phil, PA; Transceiver, curator Jeff Gibson, Bemis Center Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE; 2011, Signs on the Road, curator Michael Ashkin, Winkleman Curatorial ResearchLab, New York, NY; Speculation Elation, curator Torsten Zenas Burns, Parsons Hall Projects, Holyoke, MA; 2010, Horizon, special edition poster collaboration with Barbara Ess, curated by 2up, Nada Art Fair, NY; Friendly Fire, curated by Printed Matter, New York Art Book Fair, PS1/MoMA, New York, NY; 2009, University of Trash, curated by Anthony Huberman, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY; 2008, Off The Grid, curator Jacqueline Shilkoff, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Kits for Encounter, curators Candice Hopkins and Marisa Jahn, Western Front, Vancouver, BC; Volume Drawings, installation and performance, Western Front, Vancouver, BC; 2007, Encounters, curator Femke Lutgerink, Stadsgalerij, Heerlen, NL *exhibition publication; Bivouac, Art Omi International Art Center. Ghent, NY; Transgression/Excess, curator Dirk Meinzer, Space Other, Boston, MA; M49, Fringe Exhibitions Space and Media Project, Los Angeles, CA; 2006, In the Country of Last Things, curator Emma Wilcox, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ; Kamp K48, curator Scott Hug, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY; Our Town, curator David Scher, Parc Foundation, Hudson, NY; Manhattan Transfer, curator John Weber, Zone: Chelsea, New York, NY; Six, Khadija Carroll, Space Other, Boston, MA;
2005, OddLots, curators Frances Richard, Sina Najafi, Jeffrey Kastner, Queens Museum, NY; In Practice, curated by Mary Ceruti, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY
Exhibition Reviews
Thomas, Taliesin. Inside ‘Home and Work’: Shaver, Liu, and Goldfarb’ at TSL Hudson. Chronogram, 2025. Soudant, Shasti O’Leary. Maximilian Goldfarb. Sculpture Magazine, 2024. Jaeger, William. The Voracious Eye. Albany Times Union, 2024. Asatekin, Cigdem. Wolf Tones: A Many-Sided House. The Brooklyn Rail, Art Seen, 2023. Collins, Ann C. Wolf Tones. The Brooklyn Rail, Book Review, 2022. Wu, Simon. Fastness, Slowness, Monstrous Beauty. The Brooklyn Rail, Art Seen, 2020. Freisen, Christopher. QSL Serial, Monitoring Times, 2008. Goddard, Donald. ‘Odd Lots: Revisiting Matta-Clark. New York Art World. 2006. Smith, Roberta. ‘Impressions of the Yard. The New York Times, 2003. Pratt, Kevin. ‘Yard’, Art Forum. September Issue Reviews, 2003. O’Reilly, Sally. ‘Not Always The Same.’ Art Monthly, 2003. Herbert, Martin. ‘Not Always The Same. Time Out London, 2003. Spence, Rebecca. ‘Profiles: Garbage Man’. ArtNews, May issue, 2002. Glueck, Grace. ‘Remnant’. The New York Times, Weekend Art in Review, 2001. Valdez, Sarah. ‘Serial Number’. Time Out New York , Issue 281, 2001. Johnson, Ken. Art in Review. The New York Times, Weekend Section, 2000. Turner, Elisa. ‘Interactive ‘Levity’ Rises To The Occasion’. Miami Herald, 2000. Arning, Bill. Territories, Time Out New York, Issue 179, 1999. Johnson, Ken. Weekend Art in Review, The New York Times, 1998.
Artist Books, Publication formats
2026, Shipwreck Archetype, design by Joel Brenden, 250 pps, PS Studio, NY; 2023, Numbers Station, publication design by Ilona Gaynor, 120 pps, b/w, PS Studio, NY; 2019, Repeater, publication design by Christopher Lee, Pilot Editions, NY; 2018, Reports 1-100, publication design by Christopher Lee, Pilot Editions, NY; 2016, Remote Viewing: 500 Tableaux, 1000 pages, b/w, Pilot Editions, NY; 2015, Handbook for Human Machines, artist book of visual research, Pilot Editions, NY
Books, Exhibition Catalogs, Periodicals
Thurmann-Jajes, Anne and Beyer, Regine, Listen Up!: Radio Art in the USA, Columbia University Press ; 2025, Triandos, Theodoros. Social Minimalism, exhibition broadside essay, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. 2025 Massier, John, Wolf in Erie County, exhibition catalog, Hallwalls. Buffalo, NY; 2023, Modrak, Rebekah, Exstrange, produced by Maize Books/Michigan Publishing ; 2018, Stiegele, Juliane and Tobier, Nick Utopia Toolbox, TOOLBOOKS, Munich, Germany; 2015, Joseph-Hunter, Galen and Maranca, Bonnie, Transmission Arts, PAJ Press; 2011, Jahn, Marisa; Golonu, Berin; Hopkins, Candice, Recipes for An Encounter, Western Front; 2009, Bua, Matt and Goldfarb, Maximilian, Horizontal Towers, WTD Architectural Publication, Saudi Arabia; 2013, Goldfarb, Maximilian, Deep Cycle Project Drawings, PAJ93, MIT Press; 2011, Lutgerink, Femke, Encounters, Stadgalerij, NL; 2007, Richard, Frances and Najafi, Sina, ODDLOTS: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates, Cabinet Magazine; 2007, Goldfarb, Maximilian, CHAIN: Public Forms, Issue 11; edited by Jena Osman; 2007, Adler, Tracy. Remnant. Hunter College Art Gallery; 2001 ,Hunt, David. Float. Exhibition catalog; 2000, Urabi, Naomi. Transporter, exhibition catalog