Steve Rowell

Steve Rowell is a research-based artist who works with still and moving images, sound, installation, maps, and spatial concepts. Over the past 20 years has been based in Oxford, Los Angeles, Berlin, and Washington D.C. His transdisciplinary practice focuses on overlapping aspects of technology, perception, and culture as related to ontology and landscape. Rowell contextualizes the built environment with the surrounding medium of Nature; appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and archaeologist. His collaborations include: The Center for Land Use Interpretation (Los Angeles), SIMPARCH (Chicago), and The Office of Experiments (London). Steve’s work (collaborative and solo) has been exhibited internationally at a range of galleries and museums, including: The 2006 Whitney Biennial and PS1, New York; Yerba Buena Center for The Arts, San Francisco; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Transmediale and NGBK, Berlin; The Barbican Art Centre and the Frieze Art Fair, London; Ballroom Marfa; The Center for PostNatural History, Pittsburgh; The Institute for Visual Art, Milwaukee; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Recent awards include the Erna Plachte Scholarship at the University of Oxford and grants from Creative Capital and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.