Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Steve Roden
Born 1964, lives & works in Pasadena, CA
1989
MFA, Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA
1986
BFA, Otis /Parsons, Los Angeles, CA
2012
“Shells, Bells, Steps And Silence”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2011
“stone’s throw”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2010
“Steve Roden: In Between; a mid-career survey”, curated by Howard Fox, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
“blinking lights at night”, Phonebox at IMO projects, Copenhagen, Denmark
“when words become forms”, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
“proximities”, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
2008
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"to these four horizons”, Geluidpost/Lokaal01, Breda, the Netherlands
2007
Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects
2006
"lines and spaces", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA
"Steve Roden: recent work”, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy, curated by Valerio Dehò
"steve roden: day ring, night ring”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, sound installation in James Turrell’s Skyspace
"Recent Monotypes”, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
2005
"seam arks”, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
"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
2012
“Silence”, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2011
“Time Again”, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
“Summer Group Sculpture Show”, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
“Game Theory”, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2010
“The Hendersons Will Be There”, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
“Inaugural Group Exhibition”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
“The Drawing Machines”, Galleria Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
ARTe SONoro, curated by Jose Manuel Costa, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
“Ear to the Page”, curated by Alan Light and James Hoff, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
“Re-Sound”, Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
“Sound in Space”, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
2009
“at the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale”, The Armory Gallery, Pasadena, CA (December 7, 2008 – March 1, 2009)
"Hidden City”, various sites, Peregrine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2008
"Selections from the Permanent Collection”, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
"L.A. Now”, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV, curated by David Pagel
"L.A. Paint”, The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, curated by Philip Linhares
"Perspectives 163: Every S“Every Sound You Can Imagine,” The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX, curated by Toby Kamps and Christopher Cox and traveling to: New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (February 5 – March 28, 2009)
"Marfa Sessions”, Marfa Ballroom and Various Sites, Marfa, Texas, curated by Regine Basha & the Relay Project
"Happy New Ears”, Kortrijk, Belgium, curated by Joost Fonteyne (upcoming)
"Southern California Painting”, Oakland Museum, CA, curated by Phil Linares
(dis)concert "sound objects”, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
"Some Paintings: The Third (2007) LA Weekly Annual Biennial”, Track 16, Santa Monica (curated by Doug Harvey)
"Before and After Science”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, curated by Michael Ned Holte
2007
"Mercosur Biennial”, Porto Allegre, Brazil
"Sleppet” (part of Grieg ’07), Bergen, Norway, curated by Jorgen Larsen, traveling to Oslo
"soundwaves”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
"between thought and sound”, The Kitchen, New York, curated by Debra Singer and Matthew Lyons (catalog)
"Reverberations: Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello”, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, curated by Regine Basha
"decoupage (f d)”, Blank, Torino, Italy
"Open End”, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
"Kit Bashing”, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
"invisible. Other”, New American Art Union, Portland, OR, curated by TJ Norris
2006
"The Grand Promenande”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, curated by Anna Kafetsi (two sound installations)
"Eco E Narciso”, Museum of Modern Architecture (MaAm), Ivrea, Italy, curated by Danieal Cascella & Rebecca De Marchi
"Draw A Line”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood
"(Keep Feeling) Fascination: Recent Abstract Painting in Los Angeles”, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA, Los Angeles
"Space is the Place”, 2005 ICI Traveling Exhibition, curated by Alex Baker and Toby Kamps, ICA Portland, Maine, Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
"Intersections”, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Ohio
"Cityscapes”, ARCO, Project Booth selected by Christopher Miles, presented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Madrid, Spain
"Otis / LA, Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art”, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Immodesty”, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Linda Day
2005
"Sculturra Liggera / Light Sculpture”, 503 Mulino, Vincenza, Italy, curated by Simone Menegoi
"COLA”, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Award, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Park Sounds”, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, with Paul Panhuysen
"EN/OF Editions”, Printed Matter, New York, NY
"In the Abstract", Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Percussion Music”, Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Artists Select Artists", Kustera Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
"I10”, McClean Gallery, Houston, TX
"je ne regrette rien”, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
"Wordplay”, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
"In Resonance”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, curated by Fionn Meade and Robert Millis
"sounds like drawing”, The Drawing Room, London, UK, curated by Anthony Huberman
2004
"Listen", Pompidou Center, Paris, curated by Boris Tissot
"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)
"Painting Now", 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
2003
"audiolab 2", Centre George Pompidou Museum, Paris, France
"Painting by Letters”, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Eve Wood
"Graphic Eloquence", UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas, 2-person show with Jeff Elrod, curated by Francis Colpitt
"Before and After Sound", e/Static Gallery, Torino, Italy
"Transmission”, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM, curated by Steve Peters
2002
"Resonance 2", Stadtgalerie, Saarbrucken, Germany
"25th anniversary selections exhibition”, The Drawing Center,NY
"New Works / New Spaces”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, curated by Jay Belloli
"Liminal Spaces", Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, NY
"LA Freewaves”, Mario’s Furniture, Los Angeles, CA, citywide media festival
2001
"In Between Outdoors", MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
"Snapshot", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA & Miami MOCA, Miami, FL
"Cross-Cuts", Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
"6 Degrees: Art in the Libraries”, Hollywood Regional Branch LA Public Library, Los Angeles, CA
"Between Representation”, INMO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Doug Harvey
2000
"Break Step”, INMO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"En Red O", Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain
"Exquisitely Wrought”, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA, curated by John O’Brien
"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
"Sig Alert”, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, curated by John Spiak
"Painting…”, Post, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Habib Khederyer
1998
"Sound”, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA, curated by Jennifer Hope Davy
ISEA 98, various sites, Liverpool, UK
"Open Container”, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA, curated by David Hunt
"Viaggiatori", Palazzo Dei Consoli, Gubbio, Italy
"The House Was Quiet…”, site specific installation, Senkoji Temple, Osaka, Japan
"Sound Pictures”, Komaba Ryo Gallery, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan
1997
"Parallels", Kunstalle Grassi-Museum, Leipzig, Germany
"Allegorical Re/Visions”, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Noel Karten & Ruth Weisberg
1996
"Tangles", Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
"Dal ‘Campo d’Obsservazione’ to ‘The Brewery’”, Palazio Ducale, Gubbio, Italy
"Triennial Sofia ’96 Exhibition of Painting”, Art Gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, Bulgaria
"Currents in Abstraction”, Ikon Ltd/Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994
"Transtextualism", Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Far Bazzar”, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
"Peculiar Paintings", Woodbury College, Burbank, CA
"Germinal Notations", Food House, Santa Monica, CA
1992
"FAR Bazzar”, The Old Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Shaw, Michael, “Steve Roden: Conversing With the Object”, Notes on Looking (podcast interview), April 10
Green, Tyler, Modern Art Notes (podcast interview) March 15
2011
Ollman, Leah, “Steve Roden at Susanne Vielmetter”, The Los Angeles Times, April 1
Roberts, Randall “Artist Steve Roden blends old photos, recordings on new CD”, Los Angeles Times, July 31 (link)
Green, Tyler, “Steve Roden emerges ready for prime time”, Modern Art Notes, January 14
Fischer, Tobias,” Interview with Steve Roden”, Tofaki, March 21
Green, Tyler, “Steve Roden matures into a significant painter”, Modern Art Notes, January 26
Finkel, Jori, “It Speaks to Me: Steve Roden on Lorser Feitelson’s 1936 ‘Life Begins’ at LACMA”, Los Angeles Times, March 16
2010
Myers, Holly, “Steve Roden: Breaking the rules of art”, Los Angeles Times, September, 5 (link)
Harvey, Doug, “Unfinished Symphony”, LA Weekly, September, 9 (link)
Kozlowski, Carol, “Armory Center for the Arts unveils two major exhibitions during one reception Saturday”, Pasadena Weekly, September 9
Knight, Christopher, “Art Review: Steve Roden: in between, a 20-year survey at Armory Center for the Arts; Steve Roden: when words become forms at Pomona College Museum”, Los Angeles Times, September 9
“ArtScene: Special Newsletter, This Year’s Top Ten”, ArtScene, December 30
Ned Holte, Michael, “Best of 2010”, Artforum, December
Zellen, Jody, “Jody Zellen on Steve Roden”, Artwrit, Volume IV Fall
Green, Tyler, “Man’s 2010 top ten list”, ArtInfo, December 28
Frank, Peter, “Steve Roden: in Pasadena and Claremont, CA”, Art ltd., November
Knight, Christopher, “Notes on the year: Turn Signal”, Los Angeles Times, December 19
Fox, Howard, “Steve Roden/ In Between”, Exhibition Catalogue
Roden, Steve, “Proximities”, Chinati Foundation Newsletter, vol 15 pp90-93
Costa, Jose Manuel, Arte Sonoro, Exit Express, Spain, October, pp. 18-3
2009
Woodard, Josef, “Music review: Climax Golden Twins and Steve Roden at Schindler House”, Los Angeles Times, July 26
Newhall, Edith, “Galleries: Art finds a home in some hidden landmarks”, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7
Green, Tyler, “Oranges & Sardines, MAN version: Steve Roden”, Modern Art Notes, February 12-13
Harvey, Doug, “Last Round: “At the Brewery Project: The Finale", LA Weekly, January 14
“L.A. Paint”. Exhibition Catalogue, Oakland Museum of California
“L.A. Now”, Exhibition Catalogue, Las Vegas Art Museum, Bright City Books
2008
“Between Thought and Sound”, Exhibition Catalogue, The Kitchen
Wagley, Catherine, “Rack Room: Interview with Steve Roden”, ArtSlant, December
Rapko, John, “’LA Paint’ at the Oakland Museum”, Artweek, Vol. 39, Issue 10, December
Kelly, Danielle, “Now We’re Talkin’!”, Las Vegas Weekly, December 18
Schad, Ed, "Steve Roden at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, ArtReview, October
Dertnig, Carola, “Allan Kaprow: Art as Life”, X-tra Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter
Miles, Christopher, "Steve Roden at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, Art Forum, October
Harvey, Doug, "Steve Roden: Found in Translation”, THE magazine, September
Frank, Peter, "Peter Frank Has Left the [Weekly] Building”, LA Weekly, July 9
Wagley, Catherine, "Indulgent Paintings”, Art Slant, July
"Weekend Roundup”, Modern Art Notes, June 30
Myers, Holly, "Steve Roden, an artist’s artist with considerable appeal”, Los Angeles Times, June 27
Kilston, Lyra, "Working Practice”, Modern Painters, February
Harvey, Doug, "Some Paintings”, LA Weekly, January 9
Knight, Christopher, "Around the Galleries: Mark Flores at David Kordanksy Gallery”, Los Angeles Times, February 22
Marley, Brian, "George Brecht / A Christmas Play for Joseph Cornell”, The Wire, May
2007
Perez-Barreiro, Gabriel, "6a Biena do Mercosul – Zona Franca”, exhibition catalog
Taylor, Kate, "Seeing a Symphony on a Grid”, The New York Sun
Santanna, Cristiano, "A Festa Das Artes”, Correio Do Povo, December 1
Hanor, Stephanie, "Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling”, exhibition catalog
Loomis, Nicky, "Artwork to Your Ears”, Pasadena Star News, April 16
Licht, Alan, "Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories”, Rizzoli International Publications, pp. 26-30, 286-287
Green, Kate, "Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello”, Modern Painters, December 2007—January 2008
Knight, Christopher, "They Help Make the L.A. Scene”, Los Angeles Times, December 2
Larsson, Jorgen, "Sleppet, Grieg 07, Norway”, exhibition catalog
2006
Knight, Christopher, "45 Painters Under 45”, Los Angeles Times, December 2
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
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
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
2010
Performance, CEAIT Festival, REDCAT, Santa Monica, CA (FRIDAY MARCH 5, at 8:30 pm)
Screening, "Not a Place, An Outlook", Governor’s Island, NY, June – September
Performance, “Possible Landscape (for Donald Judd)”, 2010 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, CA
“UNES PIERRE, DES ARCS ET DES OREILLES”, web project, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
2008
Performance, "Glow, Dusk-to-Dawn”, City of Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA
"18 Happenings in 6 Parts”, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Hollywood, CA (director and performer of a re-invention of Allan Kaprow’s seminal 1969 work in conjunction with the MOCA Kaprow retrospective. With Michael Ned Holte, Simone Forti, Rae Shaolan-Blum, Flora Weigmann, Carol Stakenas, and Steve Irvin)
Collaborative Performance, "Mammoth”, LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Los Angeles, CA
2007
Sound installation and discussion with Jeremy Strick, MOCA director, "Dark Over Light Earth”, MOCA Pacific Design Center, January 20
Performance, "Activating the Medium Festival”, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Screening, "everything else &/or nothing at all”, International Film Festival, Rotterdam, January 27, 29
Reading and Sound Performance, with Simone Forti and Anne Tardos, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
2006
Sound Performance, "Klang Aparatus”, Tesla, Berlin Germany
Music Performance, "Tribute to the Life and Art of Nam June Paik at LACMA”, Bing Theatre, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 1
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, San Francisco, CA
2005
Performance, "Sound Architecture”, Serpentine Gallery, London
Installation, "Soundwalk 05”, sound festival various sites, Long Beach, CA
"The Bells”, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, live soundtrack to the silent film 'the bells'
2004
Performance, "Suite in Parochial”, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Singuhr Horgalerie in Parochial, Berlin (live Collaboration w/ Frank Bretschneider)
"Nest”, commissioned site specific sound installation in downtown Ketchum, ID (part of sound of place show)
2003
Performance and Film Screening, "KYTN”, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
Performance and Artist in residence, "Paesinae”, Theatre du Point Aveugle, Marseille, France
Performance, "Possible Landscape”, MIT University, Boston, MA
Performance, "Possible Landscape”, Bard College, New York, NY
Performance, "house of waterproof paper”, 3 Nights of Fluxus, Otis Art Instituate, Los Angeles, CA
Performance, "Possible Landscape”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2002
Performance, "Bell Forms”, Stadt Galerie, Saarbrucken, Germany
Performance and Residency, Extrapool, Nijmegen, Holland
Performance, "Off12”, Stadt Galerie, Saarbrucken, Germany
2001
Performance, "Flight Pattern”, Podewil, Berlin, Germany
Performance, "Soundhouse”, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles,CA
Performance, "12K/BipHop Festival”, Tonic, New York City, NY
Film Screening, "Touch Tones”, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2000
Sound Performance, Architeturra, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Performance, "Water Temple”, Centro Brasileiro Britânico,São Paulo, Brazil
Performance, "Unfolding Resonance”, Hayward Gallery London, UK
Film Screening and Performance, "Light Structures”, Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium
Performance, "Interference”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1999
Installation & Performance, "Heizlufter”, Sampling Rage Festival, Berlin, Germany
1998
Performance, "Helios Flying”, REV, ISEA 98, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Installation with Doug Aitken, "Hysteria”, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Performance, "Soundwork”, Tokyo (Uplink), Osaka (Senkouji Temple), Matsuyama (Sound Gallery), Kobe (Kobe Design University)
1997
Performance, "Cloud Moving”, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London
Performance, "Enclosures”, Festival Musique Ultimes', Dijon, France
1996
Performance, "Ngattaugree”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), CA
Performance, "Somnia”, Ducal Palace, Gubbio, Italy, with John O’Brien and Toti Marcadante
1995
Performance, "Communicating Vessels”, Interzone One: New Music Festival, Osaka, Japan
1994
Performance, "Asphalt Opera #9”, Zenko Temple, Osaka, Japan
1993
Performance, "Phonography”, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Performance, "Fireworks”, Fandango’s, Osaka; Sate Senin, Sayama; Theatre Poo, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
2011
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2011 Artist Grant
2010
Chinati Foundation, Artist in Residence, Marfa, TX
2009
Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY
2008
California Community Foundation Getty Fellowship
2005
Nimoy Artist in Residency Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2004
COLA Award, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
City of Los Angeles COLA Award
City of Pasadena Individual Artist Grant
2003
California Arts Council Grant in Visual Arts
Engine 27, New York, NY, grant and residency
2001
Durfee Foundation Grant
The National Museum of Contemporary Art / Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin, TX
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA
The Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
The ASU University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
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