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

1. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 321; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5
2. ↑ V tape , accessed April 17, 2015.
3. ↑ 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.