Max Geller (activist)

Max Geller
Geller in 2019, flipping off a Renoir while being physically removed by museum security.
Born1984 (age 41–42)
EducationColorado College

Max Geller (born 1984) is an American performance artist and activist. Part of the Jewish left, Geller is an organizer and activist for Palestinian human rights, including the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). Geller is the founder of Renoir Sucks At Painting, a "trolling" social movement to remove the paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir from museums around the world. He has leveraged the Renoir Sucks at Painting project into media coverage for the BDS movement and other social causes.

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