A. L. Steiner
American artist (born 1967)
A. L. Steiner (born 1967 in Miami, Florida) is an American multimedia artist, author and educator, based in Brooklyn, New York. Her solo and collaborative art projects use constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, and performance. Steiner's art incorporates queer and eco-feminist elements. She is a collective member of the musical group Chicks on Speed; and, along with Nicole Eisenman, is a co-curator/co-founder of Ridykeulous, a curatorial project that encourages the exhibitions of queer and feminist art.
Biography
A. L. Steiner was born in 1967 in Miami, Florida. Steiner received a Bachelor of Arts in 1989 in Communication from George Washington University.
Steiner was Visiting Assistant Professor and M.F.A. Program Director the Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California in 2014. In 2016, she was appointed Critic at the Yale School of Art and currently serves as the school's Senior Critic in Film/Video. She was also faculty in Bard College's Milton Avery School of the Arts MFA photography program.
Steiner is the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2017), the 2015–2016 Berlin Prize, and the 2015 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant.
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