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.

CV

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.