Bio
Steven Day (born 1965 in Newport Beach, California) is a New York based artist working in painting, photography and video. He received his MFA in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, CA 1994. He was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi (SPJ) Award for photography in 2010, and the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant or Film and Photography in 2009.
Selected Exhibitions
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC 2022; Paramnesia Cisterna Galeria Lisbon, Portugal 2021; The Nest Spruth Magers Image Movement Berlin 2017, Erased Waste, HWA Brooklyn 2016, Ellipse, A Partial Inventory from the West, A3 Gallery, Moscow 2014; De-PICT, an inaugural painting show, Gallery NOSCO, London 2014; The Wax Paintings, Gallery NOSCO, SP - Arte, Sao Paulo; Shadow Stadium, video (TRT 00:30:22) Recontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, 2013, Palais de Tokyo Paris, 2012; Night and Day, Nouvel Organon Paris 2012; Ghost Town 10 Videos (TRT 00:29:42) Casa Vecina Mexico City 2011; 99 ¢ Parking Lot (TRT 00:15:00) Civil Disobedience White Box New York, NY 2010.
Selected Publications and Reviews
UMBIGO Magazine, ‘NEW PAINTINGS Steven Day’, Art In Quarantine. 2020, Artspace, 'A Tour of Highlights From São Paulo's 2014 SP-Arte Fair', Steven Day and Lauren Seiden at Gallery Nosco (London), by Nessia Pope, April 8, 2014. Uncube, issue no. 20, 'Concrete Commons - Shared spaces of British Modernism', pg. 40 - 43. Berlin 2014, ASTROLAND, Steven Day, 2014. 32 pg (Edition of 200) published by Conveyor Arts, NJ. “STEVEN DAY Artwork in EMERGENCY ROOM" PS1/MoMA, published by Foto22, catalog. Artbook@P.S.1/MoMA, 2009.
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Lives and works in New York City
Born 1965, California
Selected Exhibitions
How do I Measure my Gratitude? The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC. 2022
Paramnesia, Cisterna Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal. 2021
New Works, Sprüth Magers - Image Movement, Berlin. 2018
The Nest, Sprüth Magers - Image Movement, Berlin. 2017
Erased Waste, (group exhibition) HWA, Brooklyn. 2016
Selected gallery’s artists concerning LUCIO FONTANA, Gallery NOSCO, ART RIO. 2014
De-PICT, an inaugural painting show, Gallery NOSCO, London (Opens June 30). 2014
The Wax Paintings, Gallery NOSCO, SP - Arte, Sao Paulo (April 03 - 06). 2014
The Wax Paintings, Gallery NOSCO, Art 14, London (Feb 28 - Mar 2). 2014
Shadow Stadium, Recontres Internationales Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt. 2013
Polar Express, Carne Vale at Flux Factory, Queens, New York, NY. 2013
Shadow Stadium, Recontres Internationales Paris, Palais de Tokyo. 2012
Group Show, Nouvel Organon, Paris. 2012
Operation Castle, Citydrift at Momenta Art, Brooklyn. 2012
Ghost Town, Casa Vecina, Mexico City. 2011
99 ¢ Parking Lot, Civil Disobedience, White Box, New York, NY. 2010
POYi, Annenberg Space For Photography, Los Angeles. 2010
Cranbrook Estate, Vinyl Contemporary, PULSE New York, NY. 2010
Ghost Town, Kran Film Collective, Brussels, Belgium. 2009
Emergency Room, Taïss Gallery, Paris, France. 2008
Surprisingly Natural: the Nature of the Bronx, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY. 2008
Fundamental Abstraction II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco. 2008
Night For Gingham, Screen Prints on paper, Indie Collective, Culver City. 2008
Whiteout, Kinkead Contemporary, Miami/Basel. 2007
A$$TROLAND, Art For Humans, Chinatown, Los Angeles. 2007
Selected Works, Art Forum Berlin, Pierogi, Berlin, Germany. 2007
Emergency Room, (group exhibition), Ileana Tounta, Athens, Greece. 2007
Emergency Room, (group exhibition), PS1/MoMA, Queens, NY. 2007
Selected Works, Pierogi Files, The Armory Show, New York, NY. 2007
Whiteout, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA. 2007
Upper City, Pierogi Files, Miami Basel Art Fair. 2006
Every Day is Different, Michael Steinberg Gallery, New York, NY. 2006
TAKE OFF, Hebel 121, Basel Switzerland. 2006
Aperture & Architecture, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Sante Fe. 2006
Selected Works, Pierogi Files, The Armory Show, New York, NY. 2006
Selected Works, Pierogi Files, Miami Basel Art Fair. 2005
Beyond Monochrome, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. 2005
Selected Works, Pierogi Files, The Armory Show, New York, NY. 2005
Habitats or Humans, Hewitt Gallery, Marymont Manhattan College. 2005
Pierogi Files, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. 2005
Hospital, (Artist of the Week), Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY. 2005
24, (group exhibition), Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas. 2003
Selected Works, Haines Gallery. San Francisco, CA. 1999
TRANSLUCENT, The Wax Paintings, Transamerica Pyramid. San Francisco, CA. 1998
Selected Works, The Wax Paintings DANESE. New York, NY. 1997.
The Wax Paintings, Haines Gallery. San Francisco, CA. 1997
Selected Works, Haines Gallery. Brooklyn, NY. 1997
Enfernte Bekannte, Binz39. Zurich, Switzerland. 1997
Grammercy International, Haines Gallery, Chateau Marmont. Los Angeles. 1997
Grammercy International, Haines Gallery, The Raleigh Hotel. Miami, Florida. 1997
Inauguration, Haines Gallery. Brooklyn, NY. 1995.
The Wax Paintings, Annie Gawlak. Washington D.C. 1995
Hommage to the Bard, Terrain Gallery. San Francisco, CA. 1995
The Wax Paintings, Lead Gallery. Seattle, WA. 1995
Introductions, Terrain Gallery. San Francisco, CA. 1995
MFA Graduation Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion. San Francisco, CA. 1994
Education
San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, CA (MFA Painting). 1994
University of California, Santa Barbara. Bachelors of Science. 1989
Awards
Sigma Delta Chi (SPJ) Award, "Miracle on the Hudson", Winner of Breaking News Photography Newspaper circulation-100,000+ or Affilated Website/National Magazine. 2010
National Headliner Awards, Spot News, Second Place: Steven Day, Associated Press, 2010
Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant for Film and Photography. 2009
Nomination for Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. 2008
Award of Merit. Scholarship for Graduate Studies, San Francisco Art Institute. 1992
Selected Bibliography
UMBIGO Magazine, ‘Art in Quarantine’ New Paintings Steven Day, July 2020 Lisbon Portugal
UmbigoLAB, Featured ‘Day and Night’ Steven Day, Dec 7 2019 Lisbon Portugal
UmbigoLAB, Featured ‘Day and Night’ Steven Day, Sept 12 2019 Lisbon Portugal
UMBIGO Magazine, ‘Photography: Frieze NYC’ Steven Day, 2018 Lisbon Portugal
UMBIGO Magazine, 'Between Studio and the City'. Susana Anágua interviews Steven Day, April 23, 2015. Lisbon.
DE/PICT No 0 Gallery Nosco. Gallery Catalog of Inaugural Exhibition. June 2014. Steven Day, Louise Fishman, Laura Seiden, Alehandro Ospina, Peter Pumpler, Tom Leamon, Nicholas Pol, Niall McClelland,
Artspace, A Tour of Highlights From São Paulo's 2014 SP-Arte Fair, Artful Traveler, Steven Day and Lauren Seiden at Gallery Nosco (London). By Nessia Pope, April 8, 2014.
Uncube, issue no. 20, 'Concrete Commons - Shared spaces of British Modernism', pg. 40 - 43. Berlin 2014
Conveyor Arts, ASTROLAND, Steven Day 2014. 32. pg. Book. Photographs by Steven Day, Coney Island, 2007. Edition of 200.
Associated Press, photographs of US Airways 1549 crash in the Hudson River. TIME Special Issue, 'The Year in Pictures', TIME 'The Year in Review', CBS 60 minutes, LIFE '2009 Photos of the Year', The Wall Street Journal '2009 Year in Photos' (Best of Breaking News), CNN, Newsweek, TV Guide, Discovery Channel. Jan 15, 2009 - Mar 5 2010.
Foto 22, "STEVEN DAY Artwork in EMERGENCY ROOM" PS1/MoMA, published by Foto22, an exhibition catalog. Artbook@P.S.1/MoMA, November 1, 2009.
PASATIEMPO: Interview by Paul Weideman. The New Mexican Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment & Culture. June 2, 2006: Aperture and Architecture, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Sante Fe.