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Born 1964, lives & works in Pasadena, CA
Education
1989
MFA, Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA
1986 BFA, Otis /Parsons, Los Angeles, CA
Awards
2004 COLA Award, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
“Nothing but what is therein contained", Founder’s Hall,
Girard College, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects
2006
“steve
roden: day ring, night ring”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, sound
installation in James
Turrell’s
Skyspace
“Steve
Roden: recent work”, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy, curated by Valerio
Dehò
"lines and spaces", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,
CA
2005
"Seamarks", Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA
"Steve Roden: Transmissions from Space", Fresno Metropolitan Museum of
Art and Science,
Fresno, CA
2004 "ear(th)", Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center
College of Design, Pasadena,
CA, in collaboration with the California Institute of
Technology
"New Work", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver
City, CA
"cups into clouds, songs into rain", e/Static Gallery,
Torino, Italy
"stills (for guru dutt)", Tang Museum at Skidmore College,
MY
2003 Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
"The Silent World", Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los
Angeles, CA
"The Surface of the Moon", Suyama Space, Seattle, WA
"chamber music", Jack Straw New Media Gallery,
Seattle, WA
2002
Singuhr - Hörgalerie in Parochial, Berlin
e/Static Gallery, Torino, Italy
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2000 Jenn Joy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Studio Five Beekman, New York, NY
The Guardshack, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA,
1999 JennJoy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA
Pac Des Ouches, Nevers, France
1996 Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA
1995
Gallerie OU', Osaka, Japan
1992 Kaibundo Gallery, Kobe, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2008 “Allan Kaprow's 18 happenings in 6 parts”, LACE,
Hollywood, CA
“Before and After Science”, Richard Telles
Fine Art, Los Angeles, curated by Michael Ned Holte
“Some Paintings: The Third (2007) LA Weekly
Annual Biennial”, Track 16, Santa Monica (curated by Doug
Harvey)
2007
“Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music”, The
Kitchen,
New York, curated by Alex Waterman, Debra Singer,
and Matthew Lyons (catalog)
“Slippet, part of Grieg ‘07”, Bergen, Norway, traveling to Oslo
“Stephen Vitiello and Steve Roden”, Lora Reynolds Gallery,
Austin, TX, curated by Regine
Bashan
“Mercosul Biennial”, Porto Alegre, Brazil (September)
“The Sound of Norwegian Spring”, Bergen, Norway (September)
“Kit Bashing”, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
“Space is the Place”, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills,
MI
2006 “accretion”, Kellogg University
Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona, CA
“Immodesty”, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA
“The
Grand Promenande”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, curated
by Anna
Kafetsi (two sounds installations)
“Space Is the Place: Contemporary Art and Space
Travel”,
ICA at
MECA, Portland, Main
Intersections, Emily Davis Gallery,
University of Akron,
Ohio (in progress)
Draw A Line, LACE,
Los Angeles
(in progress)
(Keep Feeling) Fascination, Recent Abstract
Painting in
Los
Angeles, Luckman Fine Arts
Gallery,
Cal State La,
Los Angeles
“Cityscapes”, ARCO, Project Booth selected by
Christopher Miles, presented by Susanne
Vielmetter
Los Angeles Projects,
Madrid, Spain
2005
“Park Sounds”, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, with Paul Panhuysen
“sounds like drawing”,
The Drawing
Room, London, UK, curated by Anthony Huberman,
with
Carsten Nicolai, Kaffe Mathews, Terry Nauheim
“In Resonance”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, curated by Fionn Meade
and Robert Millis,
with
Chistoph Cox, Kim Gordon and Marina Rosenfeld
“je ne regrette rien”, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
“word Play”, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Tamar Cohen
“I10”, McClean Gallery, Houston, TX
“seamarks”,
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
“EN/OF Editions”, Printed Matter, New York, NY
"Loops", G Fine Art, Washington, DC, curated
by Christoph Cox
"In the Abstract", Angles
Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Special -
Artists Select Artists", Kustera Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
"Light Sculpture - scultura leggera", 503 Mulino, Vicenza, Italy
"Percussion Music", Solway Jones Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
COLA exhibition
2004/05 "Listen" (part of Sons et Lumiere), Pompidou Center,
Paris, curated by Boris Tissot
"D(igital) fraged", University of West Florida,
Pensacola, Florida
2004 "Specific Objects: The Minimalist Influence", Museum of
Contemporary Art San Diego, La
Jolla, CA, with Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre,
Donald Judd, Agnes Martin,
Robert Irwin, John McLaughlin, Byron Kim, Damían
Ortega, and others, La Jolla, CA
"Treble", The Sculpture Center, New York, NY, curated by
Regine Basha, with Francis
Alys, Euan McDonald, Max Neuhaus, Dario Robleto, Mungo
Thompson, Steven
Vitiello and others)
"About Painting", The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore
College, Saratoga
Springs, NY
"The Sound of Place / The Place of Sound", Sun Valley Center
for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
"southwestNET: PHX/LA", Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary
Art, Scottsdale, AZ
"Freewall", Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State
Polytechnic University,
Pomona, CA, curated by
Jody Zellen
"The Way it Looks from Here", Spanganga, San Francisco, CA
"Abstraction 1913-2002", Pomona College Museum, Pomona, CA
"New", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2003 ArtBasel Miami Beach, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles
Projects
"Painting by Letters", Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, curated
by Eve Wood
"audiolab 2", Centre George Pompidou Museum, Paris, France
"Deceptive Translations - Jeff Elrod and Steve Roden",
University of San Antonio,
San Antonio, Texas, curated by Francis Colpitt
"Before and After Sound", e/Static Gallery, Torino, Italy
"Collectors XVIII", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La
Jolla, CA
The Armory Show, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles
Projects
2002 "Resonance 2", Stadtgalerie, Saarbrucken, Germany
"Liminal Spaces", Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard
College, New York, NY
2001 "One Wall", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA
"In Between Outdoors", MAK Center for Art & Architecture,
Los Angeles, CA
"Resynthesis", Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Snapshot", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA & Miami MOCA,
Miami, FL
"Cross-Cuts", Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art &
Design, Los Angeles, CA
"Stolen Properties", Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas
2000 "Break Step", Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"En Red O", Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona,
Spain
"The Other Side of Zero", Video Positive Festival, Tate
Gallery Liverpool, UK
1999 "Fall Selections 99"The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Motion Studies" Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense,
Denmark
"The Mix : Recent Acquisitions", ASU Art Museum, Tempe AZ
"Sig Alert", ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
1998 ISEA 98, various sites, Liverpool, UK
"Open Container", Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
"Viaggiatori", Palazzo Dei Consoli, Gubbio, Italy,
1997 "Parallels", Kunstalle Grassi-Museum, Leipzig, Germany
1996 "Tangles", Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
"Dal 'Campo d'Obsservazione' to 'The Brewery'", Palazio
Ducale, Gubbio, Italy
1994 "Transtextualism", Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993
"Peculiar Paintings", Woodbury College, Burbank, CA
"Germinal Notations", Food House, Santa Monica, CA
"Gallery Without Walls", Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY
1986 James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Sound Performances, Installations, Film
Screenings
2007
“The
FM Ferry Experiment”, live broadcast, Staten Island Ferry, NY, September
14-29
Screening, “anything else and/or nothing at all”,
International Film Festival, Rotterdam,
January 27, 29
Sound installation and discussion with Jeremy
Strick, MOCA director,
“Dark Over Light Earth”, MOCA Pacific Design Center, January
20
2006 Music
Performance, “Tribute to the Life and Art of Nam June Paik at LACMA”,
Bing
Theatre, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 1
“Eco e Narcisco”, Province of Turin, Italy, site-specific sound work at
Museum of Open Air
Architecture, Ivrea (accompanying disk “Eco e Narcisco: Presenze Sonore”,
2006)
2005 Sounding Architecture, Serpentine Gallery, London, Performance
“Soundwalk 05”, sound festival various sites, Long Beach, CA,
installation
“The Bells”, Otis Art Institute,
Los Angeles,
CA, live soundtrack to the silent film 'the bells'
SoCalSonic, sound festival,
Long Beach,
CA, performance
“On the Boards”,
Seattle
WA, performance
Fresno Metropolitan Museum of
Art and Science, Fresno, Ca, performance/artist talk
2004 Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY,
performance
Suite in Parochial, Singuhr - Horgalerie in Parochial,
Berlin (live Collaboration w/ Frank
Bretschneider)
Winter Festival, Engine
27, New York,
NY, installation from residency
Nest, commissioned site specific sound
installation in downtown Ketchum, ID (part of sound
of
place show)
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID, (performance for the
opening of sound of
place
show)
2003 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2002 Extrapool, Nijmegen, Holland
Stadt Galerie, Saarbrucken, Germany
Ephemeralization, Remote, New York, NY
2001 Osaka Municipal Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Gallery 360,Tokyo, Japan
Podewil, Berlin, Germany
Transmissions Festival, various sites, Chicago, Illinois
Touch Tones, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2000
Architeturra, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Centro Brasileiro Britânico,São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Hayward Gallery London, UK
Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium
Musee des Beaux Artes de Nantes, Nantes, France
Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
Interference, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, CA
1999 Sampling Rage Festival, Berlin, Germany
1997 ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London
Festival Musique Ultimes', Dijon, France
1995
Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Selected Solo Audio Publications:
2005
Transmissions
(voices of objects and skies), Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Fresno, CA
Oder Delias or Butterflies, CD,
NonVisualObjects,
Germany
Airforms, CD,
Line, USA
2004
ear(th),
CD & 24 page Catalog, Art Center College of Design and City of Pasadena,
CA
In Flows
and Spuns, LP, en/of edition, germany (collaboration with Doug Aitken)
2003 3 Roots Carved , CD, Sonoris, France
Resonant Cities, CD , Trente Oiseaux, Germany
2002 Winter Couplet, CD, New Plastic Music, USA
2001 Forms of Paper, CD, Line, USA
Schindler House, CD, MAK Center for Art & Architecture/New
Plastic Music, USA
1999 View, CD, JennJoy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Radio, CD, Sonoris, France
1998 Crop Circles, CD, Trente Oiseaux, Germany
Selected Bibliography:
2008 Knight, Christopher, “Around the Galleries: Mark Flores at
David Kordanksy Gallery”,
Los Angeles Times, February
22
Gray,
Emma, “L.A. Confidential”, Artnet, January
Harvey, Doug, “Some Paintings”, LA Weekly, January 9
2007 Berardini, Andrew, “Delirious Los Angeles”, artforum.com,
January 26
2006
Kubisch, Christina, “Best of 2006: Music”, Artforum, December
Kafetsi, Anna, The Grand Promenade (exhibition
catalogue), Hellenic Ministry of Culture
and
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Holte, Michael Ned, “Steve Roden: Sound, paintings, and
process; Alexander Graham Bell,
kites
and a grandmother’s attic”, Frieze, November/December, p. 145
Higgie, Jennifer, “The Grand Promenade”, Frieze,
November/December, p. 174
Lippens, Nate, “Roden Gives the Passage of Time An Amazing
Aural Quality”, Seattle PI,
September 29
Frank, Peter, “Art Pick: A Lot of Local Abstraction”, LA
Weekly, September 27
Meade, Fionn, “Editor’s Choice: Art”, Bomb Magazine,
Fall
Cascella,
Daniela, “Presenze Sonore/ Sonic Presences”,
Turin,
Italy,
CD catalogue essay
Meade, Fionn, “Sounding Architecture”, www.nyfa.com, August
Valerio
Dehò, Steve Roden, show catalogue, Studio la Città,
Verona
Burk, Greg,
“Bondage and multidiscipline”, LA Weekly, March 01 (reproduction)
Harvey,
Doug, “Glossolalia for Dummies”, LA Weekly, February 22
2005
Vitiello, Steve, “
Music: Best of 2005”, Artforum, December, pg. 74
1+1+1,
UK, Autumn, entire issue devoted to the exhibition "sounds like
drawing", incl.
transcribed symposium and reproductions, 12 pages oversize
Rocco Moliterni, Scultura, La
Stampa,
Italy,
Marzo 19, [reproduction]
Edwin Pouncy, Outer Limits, The Wire, UK, October, pp. 73
Steve
Roden, Inner Sleeve, The Wire, UK, August, pp. 83 [reproduction]
__, Seamarks, San Francisco Art Institute, exhibition catalog, 36 pages,
[reproductions]
Bieber, Susanneh, “Steve Roden Transmissions from Space”, Fresno
Metropolitan Museum,
exhibition brochure, 6 pages, [reproductions]
Heffley, Lynne, “An All-Around Soundfest”, LA Times, august 19, pp:E2
Cassidy, Laura, “Surround Sound”,
Seattle
Weekly, August 31, pp: 23 – 29
Lippens, Nate, “Correspondence Courses”, The Stranger, Seattle WA,
September 1,
pp. 38
[reproduction]
Graves,
Jen, “Bumbershoot Art Exhibit Links Sights, Unmusical Sounds”, The News
Tribune,
Tacoma WA,
September 4, pp. E4
Hackett, Regina, Art Review, Seattle Post Intelligencer, September 2,
pp: 33
Simone Menegoi, Sebatiano Barassi, Daniela Cascella, Light Sculpture/Scultura
Leggera,
exhibition catalog, 503 Mulino,
Italy,
188 pages, [reproductions]
Dr. Frauke von der Horst, Alan Nakagawa, Steve Roden, SoundWalk 2005,
Flood, 16 page
catalog
& CD, includes the essay Active Listening by Steve Roden
Richard Janku, Laura, “Steve Roden”, ArtUS, may/june, pp:24 – 25
[reproduction]
AA Bronson, Joeg Heiser, “Guido de Werd”, EN/OF 001 - 030, Museum
Kirhaus Kleve,
Germany, 124 page, book & 3 X CD in slipcase
Canty, Scott, COLA 2005, Catalogue, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept.,
88 pages
[reproductions]
__, I10, exhibition catalog, Mcclean Gallery, Houston, Tx, 18 pages
[reproduction]
Ned Holte, Michael, “Percussion Music”, Artforum.com, Picks, March
Cox, Christoph, “On Time: The Loop and the Line”, exhibition essay
Meade, Fionn, “In Resonance”, Seattle Center (catalog essay)
Menegoi, Simone, “Light Sculpture Scultura leggera”, essay from
exhibition catalog with
Wolfgang Laib, Gabriel Orozco, Erwin Wurm and Rachelk Whiteread.
Cascella, Daniela, “Listening Places”, exhibition essay “Light Sculpture
Scultura leggera” (catalog)
Canty, Scott, COLA exhibition catalog, pg.40-41
Richard Janku, Laura, “Steve Roden”, Art
US, May Issue
Grundberg, Andy, “‘Loop’: What Gose Around…”, Washington Post, March 20
Nolte, Michael, “Percussion Music", Artforum Pick, Artforum,
March 10
2004
Hart, Hugh, "Artists plant new ideas about nature at Pasadena sites",
LA Times, November
Cox, Christoph, "Treble", ArtForum, No.8, Pg.262,
September
"Audio Files -Sound Art Now: An Online Symposium",
Artforum, August 3
Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, July
31
Pagel, David, "A lively intellect that bucks the system",
Los Angeles Times, E27, July 23
Licht, Alan, "New York Sculpture Center", WIRE, Issue 245,
July
Holte, Michael Ned, "Steve Roden - Susanne Vielmetter", Los
Angeles Critic's Pick,
ArtForum.com, July 17
O'Brien, John, "Activism isn't a four letter word", Art
Scene, June, Vol. 23, No.10
Harvey, Doug, "Stranded - the connected lives of Steve Roden",
LA Weekly, April 30 -
May 6
Cox, Christoph, ArtForum, May, issue, pg. 70
2003 Kofoed, Kristian, "The Sound of Art - A conversation with Steve
Roden", Artweek,
October issue, pg 12 and 29
Cox, Christoph, "Return to Form", ArtForum, November
Knight, Christopher, "A game of show and tell", Los
Angeles Times, November 21
Knight, Christopher, "Smaller, more creative", Los
Angeles Times, December 21
Cutajar, Mario, "Painting by Letters", ArtScene,
November, Vol. 23, No. 3
Cox, Christoph, "Return to Form,", ArtForum, November
issue, pg. 67
Hall, Emily, The Stranger, Seattle, June 26 - July 2,
Vol. 12, No. 41
LaBelle, Charles, "Steve Roden - Pomona College and Susanne
Vielmetter Los Angeles
Projects", Frieze Magazine, May
Schulz, Bernd, "Resonances - Aspects of Sound Art", Catalog,
Stadtgalerie
Saarbruecken, Saarbruecken, Germany
Cox, Christoph, "Case Sensitive", feature article in WIRE,
Issue 229, March, pg. 28-31
Knight, Christopher, "Encoded Creations (Steve Roden at
Pomona College Museum and
at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Los
Angeles Times, January 27
"Steve Roden - the another silent green world", exhibition
catalog, Pomona College
Museum of Art
Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly,
January 24 - 30
2002 Guido Curto, Steve Roden e/Static, Flash Art, Oct./Nov.,
Italy
Chiara Bertola, Steve Roden e/Static, Tema Celeste,
Sept., Italy
Some Reconstructions of Wandering and Inner Space,
Exhibition Catalog, Santa Barbara
CAF, Essays by Meg Linton & Christoph Cox., Santa Barbara,
CA
Doug Harvey, Chaos Theory ..., LA Weekly, June 7 – 13
Eric Fredericksen, Art of Noise, Architecture Magazine,
May
BT Monthly Art Magazine, Vol. 54, no. 821, June,
Japan
Eleanor Welles, Steve Roden, ArtScene, May, CA
2001
Snapshot, Exhibition Catalog, UCLA Hammer Museum, CA
Louanne Greenwald, In Between Art & Architecture, Exhibition
Catalog, Mak Center for
Art & Architecture, CA
David Pagel, Down to Earth & Eye Catching, LA Times,
Oct. 16
Shana Dambrot, Snapshot, Tema Celeste, Oct., Italy
Elisa Turner, A Visual Tale of Two Cities, Miami Herald,
Oct. 28
Aric Chen, How Many Inches, Surface Magazine, Spring,
USA
Doug Harvey, Multiple Exposures, LA Weekly, june 22 –
28
2000 Olivier Lamm, Poesie del la Matiere, Planet of Sound,
France
M. Moniot, Art Reviews, San Francisco Chronicle, Nov.
22
Daniella Cascella, Costelazioni Sonore, Artel
Contemporanei, no. 2, Italy
1999 Drawing Papers I, The Drawing Center, NY, exhibition catalog
Rob Young, Of Architecture & the Ear, The Wire, Oct.,
London, UK
Steve Roden & Brandon Labelle editors, Site Of Sound, Smart
Art Press / Errant bodies,
Los Angeles, CA
1998 Tyler Stallings, Review, Zing Magazine, Summer
Doug Harvey, Steve Roden, Art Issues, Jan., No. 51
Bradley Smith, The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music,
Billboard Publications, USA
1997
Translations & Articulations, Exhibition Catalog, Griffin
Contemporary Exhibitions,
essays by Christopher Miles, B. Labelle, & Steve Roden
Public Collections
Museum
of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Henry
Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA
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