Education
M.F.A 2004                                  UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
Graduate Studies
2001-2002                                  Painting concentration, University of Houston, Houston, TX
B.A. 2001                                    Double major in Art History and Studio Art
                                                   Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

Selected Exhibitions/Performances

2006                    Produce Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA (upcoming)

2006                    Emerge 7, Aljira Center for Contemporary, Newark, NJ

2006                    Turbulence.org Internet Commission ( HRRAAGHP-TING w/ Olen Hsu and Dana Karwas)

2006                   Brooklyn Sampler, (performance project with OBJECT!OBJECT! and Erin Ming Lee),  BRIC Studio, Brooklyn, NY

2006                   Technologized Bodies/Embodied Technologies, LEF (curated by Legier Biederman/Dave Burns), Art Interactive,                             Boston, MA; Silverlake Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA

2005                   Newsteps (with Erin Ming Lee), Mulberry Street Theater, New York City, NY

2005                   Circuit #1, Eyebeam, New York City, NY

2005                   AIM 25, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY

2004                   Supersonic: 1 Wind Tunnel, 120 Artists, 8 schools, Art Center, CA

2004                    MFA Thesis Show, University of California, Irvine, CA

2003                    825 juried invitational , curated by Karin Higa, Gallery 825, L.A., CA

2003                    UCI @ Otis, Bolsky Art Gallery, Otis School of Art and Design, CA

2003                    MFA First Year Show, University Art Gallery, University of California, CA

2002                    Centered on the Center, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA

2002                    Surface Tension, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX

2002                   Please Only Take What You Can Eat: New But Old Reflections on Painting's Plurality,   Joan Grona Gallery,                            Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, TX

2002                   Slant 2 (curated by Melissa Hung) , Diverseworks, Houston, TX

2002                   Million Dollar Hotel, Holiday Inn Plus, Houston, TX

2001                   Slumber House , Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX

2001                   Joan Grona Gallery, Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, TX (Contemporary Arts Month)

2001                   Art in the Hood, Southtown Church, San Antonio, TX

2001                   Exposed, Peephole Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2000                   More Monochromes, G.A.S. Hall, Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, TX

2000                   Bridgette Bogle, Jeff Burton, Steven Lam, Blue Star 119, Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, TX

2000                   Relationships , The Association, Doo or Dye, San Antonio, TX

Recent Bibliography

Bischoff, Dan. "Artists on the Rise." The Star-Ledger, July 30, 2006.

S.H., "Net Art Commissions" ArtKrush.com, July 26, 2006.

Bellini, Andrea. "New York Tales: The Autumn Parade," Flash Art. November 2005, pg. 84.

Cotter, Holland. "Latino Art and Beyond Category." New York Times. September 2, 2005, E25.

Martinez, Daniel Joseph and David Levi-Strauss. "After the End."   Art Journal. Fall 2005, pgs. 30-45.

Yee, Lydia and Amy Rosenblum Martin, AIM 25, Bronx Museum of Art, NY, 2005.

Genocchio, Benjamin. "When Artists Discover Craft-Oriented Kitsch." New York Times. August 21, 2005.

Cartagena, Yanira. " Recent Pasts: SUPERSONIC: CONSORTIUM." SoCCA Printing, 2005 (in press).

Ozment, Kurt. "RE: Twenty Questions." Supersonic Catalog, 2004. pg. 43.

Friedberg, Eva. "F-Scale." Supersonic Catalog, 2004 pg. 31.

Goddard, Dan R., "Artists Giving New Life to Found Objects." San Antonio Express-News. July 29, 2001.

Goddard, Dan R., "Downtown artists share the spotlight." San Antonio Express-News. July 15, 2001.

Defore, John. "Arts Review." San Antonio Current. July 11, 2001.

Writings
Lam, Steven. "A Fictitious Panel Discussion on Media, Medium, Spectacle and Pop: Warhol, Kubelka, Godard, and Hoffman," 2004.

Lam, Steven. "A History Lesson. Notes on Painting" for Joan Grona show July 2002.

Curatorial Projects
"Spectral Evidence," Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Jan. 2007).

 

Lectures/Performance Talks
"Analyzing the Body Switch in the Freaky Friday Remakes: An Allegory," Eyebeam, NYC, NY 2005.

"Between the "-res" and the "posts-," University of California Irvine, Yong Soon Min, Irvine, CA 2006.

Recent Awards
2006-7                       Lori Ledis Curatorial Fellowship, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2006                          Turbulence Artist Commission Grant Recipient

2005                          Aljira Center for Contemporary Art Resident

2004-5                       Bronx Museum of Art, Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) finalist

2004                          University of California and the Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) Recipient

2004                          University of California, Irvine Studio Art Research Grant

2001                          UH Scholarship Recipient


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