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Steve Or Steven Read is a painter and/or new media artist who works experimentally through an investigation into the forms of waste, inventories, and erotics implicit within the systems and processes of an information economy. Found data is often used and recodified as source material, and when processed with imagined data, custom software, and chance operations a wide variety of form and/or meaning is allowed for. Any datum used or created, is a datum. He was born in 1972 in the coastal regions of Florida and currently resides in Denver Colorado.



Selected Exhibitions

2007
Denver Modernism, Denver Studio Complex, Denver
Better, Belmar Lab, Lakewood
Pattern Recognition, Foothills Art Center, Golden
Red Dot Art Fair, New York City
Draw Rings, Rhinoceropolis, Denver
GRL's Drive-in GIF Theater, Public Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Self Made Group Show at the Symphony, Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver
Peep Show, Rule Gallery, Denver

2006
Group Show, Rule Gallery, Denver
Decades of Influence: Extended Remix, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
Best of Colorado Juried Show, Denver International Airport, Denver
Self Made Lecture, Double Daughters, Denver
FILE - International Festival of Electronic Language, Telemar Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro Brazil
VBI Microtel, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art & Netherlands Public TV, Rotterdam Netherlands
Winter Group Show, Rule Gallery, Denver
Eight-bits of Infinite Contemplation, Digital Installation, Philip J. Steele Gallery, Denver

2005
FILE - International Festival of Electronic Language, SETI's Art Gallery, Sao Paulo Brazil
The Color Channel, solo show, Capsule Gallery, Denver
New Paintings, solo show, Metropolis, Denver
Snap to Grid, digital group show, LA Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles
Family Portraits, group show, Double Daughters, Denver
Rhizome Art Base
, Photo Noise Net Art, Internet
Rhizome Art Base, The Color Channel Net Art, Internet
RunMe Projects, Photo Noise Net Art, Internet
Portable Gallery Exhibition, Portable Gallery, Sweden & Internet
Convergence, Capsule Gallery, Denver
Philip J. Steele Gallery, group show, Denver

2004
Art New York: First Person, Present Tense , New School University, NYC
Game Art, Second Annual Online Exhibition, Third Place Gallery, Internet
Five, Capsule Gallery, Denver
Philip J. Steele Gallery, group show, Denver


Education

2006
B.F.A., Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD), Painting & Drawing, Denver
2004
New School University, Painting, New York City
2003
Art Students League of Denver, Painting & Drawing
1996
Dekalb Community College, Computer Sciences, Atlanta
1994
B.S., Honors, Florida State University, Biological Sciences


Awards

2006
Best of Denver Awards - Best New Art By a Newcomer, The Westword

2005
1st Place, 42nd Annual RMCAD Exhibition, Computer Arts, RMCAD
1st Place, 42nd Annual RMCAD Exhibition, Painting, RMCAD
The Chuck Mattox Memorial Scholarship Award, RMCAD

2004
1st Place, 41st Annual RMCAD Exhibition, Design, RMCAD
The Darrell L. Williams Memorial Scholarship Award, RMCAD



Other Accomplishments

2005
Co-inventor on over 100 U.S. patents in the field of human genetics.
Rhizome.org 2005-06 commissions program - contest finalist.



Press

Silva, Luis, "Screen Burn (please wait)", Rhizome.org Front Page, 2007
FFFFound, "Screen Burn (please wait)", FFFFound.com, 2007
Moody, Tom, "Attack of the Clones, Part 4", Tom Moody's Blog, 2007
Johnson, Paddy., "Fresh Links", ArtFagCity.com Blog, 2007
Whid, T., "Burn in", MTAA Reference Resource, 2007
VVORK, "Fell into the VVORK stream", VVORK.com, 2007
Paglia, Michael, "Pattern Recognition", The WestWord, 2007
Cash, Stephanie, "Report from Denver", Art in America, February 2007
Chandler, Mary Voelz, "Spotlight", The Rocky Mountain News, 2007
Robinson, Walter, "Rocky Mountain High", Artnet.com, 2006
Chandler, Mary Voelz, "MCA exhibits an amiable mix", The Rocky Mountain News, 2006
Paglia, Michael, "Act II", The WestWord, 2006
Best of Denver Award, "The best debut art show - The Color Channel ", The WestWord, 2006
Paglia, Michael, "Seeing Thinks", The WestWord, 2005
Chandler, Mary Voelz, "Recommended Art", The Rocky Mountain News, 2005
MacMillan, Kyle, "Confluence", The Denver Post, 2005
Graham, Steven, "Thesis on Canvas", The Lakewood Sentinel, 2005
Neural Art News, "The Color Channel, Privately Encroaching on TV Channels", Neural.it, 2005
Neural Art News, "Photo Noise, the Amateurial Digital Pictures Narrative", Neural.it, 2005
Staff Author, "Hot Sites", USA Today News, 2005
Sundergeld, Dorothea, "Back to Pong & Donkey Kong", Net Business News, 2001