Lisa Steele
Lisa Steele (* 1947 in Kansas City ) is an American - Canadian pioneer of video art .
life and work
Lisa Steele was born in Missouri in 1947 and studied from 1965 to 1968 at the University of Missouri – Kansas City . In 1968 she emigrated to Canada. Steele is a video artist, curator and co-founder of V tape in Toronto. In 1983 the collaboration with Kim Tomczak began . Lisa Steele was appointed to a professorship at the University of Toronto in 2002 .
Numerous awards have been presented for the work of Steele and Tomczak, including the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts (GGAVMA) .
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1985: Video Viewpoints MoMA , New York
Group exhibitions
- 1980: Biennale di Venezia
- 1982: Biennale of Sydney
- 1987: documenta 8 , Kassel
- 2001: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Collections
Works by Lisa Steele are represented in internationally renowned collections. In Germany the following should be mentioned: Center for Art and Media Technology , Karlsruhe; Academy of Arts , Berlin and Kunstmuseum Bonn , Bonn (Ingrid Oppenheim collection)
Web links
- Lisa Steele in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website Steele / Tomczak
Individual evidence
- ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 321; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5
- ↑ V tape , accessed April 17, 2015.
- ↑ Art University of Toronto Lisa Steele ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on April 17, 2015.
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SURNAME | Steele, Lisa |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Canadian video art pioneer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kansas City (Missouri) |