Steven Rowell

USA : + 1 213 245 5170
5419 Hollywood Blvd C495 \ Los Angeles \ 90027

Germany : +49 176 283 730 21
Greifenhagener Str 62 \ 10437 \ Berlin

steve (at) clui.org

EXHIBITS / EVENTS (note: repeat, traveling CLUI exhibits do not appear here)

2009
November: Ultimate High Ground, UK, for Arts Catalyst's Dark Places group show, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
June: Radical Nature - Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009 (with CLUI), Barbican Art Centre, London
May: LA Oil (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
January: Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry (with CLUI), Blaffer Gallery, Houston

2008
September: TX AUX IN (with SIMPARCH), The Marfa Sessions, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa
September: Experimental Geography (with CLUI), Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
July: Autotechnogeoglyphics: Vehicular Test Tracks in America (with CLUI), Between Bridges London
February: An Atlas of Radical Cartography (as SITE-R), Redhouse Arts Center Syracuse

2007
November: An Atlas of Radical Cartography (as SITE-R), Gallery 400, Chicago
October: An Atlas of Radical Cartography (as SITE-R), LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles
September: Exhibit Poster Retrospective (with CLUI), The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
June: Pavement Paradise (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
Feb : Vacation: Dauphin Island (with CLUI), The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles
January : Hydromancy (in collaboration with SIMPARCH), Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, El Paso

2006
October: Shock and Awe (with SIMPARCH), Year_06 Art Fair in connection with Frieze Art Fair 2006, London
October: Dissipation and Disintegration (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
May: Gloom and Doom I (with SIMPARCH), Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati
May: Gloom and Doom II (with SIMPARCH), Arnoff Center for the Arts Gallery, Cincinnati
March : CLUI Touch-screen Informational Display (with CLUI), Whitney Biennial 2006, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2005
September: Interstate (group show, with CLUI), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
June: Southern California Landscape Information Display (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
May : Weather Radio, Materials + Applications / 88.5 FM, Los Angeles
May: Three Projects Revisited (with CLUI), Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, New York
March: Terminal Island (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
March : KDRS, The CLUI Desert Research Station, Hinkley, CA
January: Immersed Remains: Towns Submerged in America (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles

2004
October : Site:Nonsite:Quartzsite (in collaboration with AUDC), High Desert Test Sites 2004, Joshua Tree, CA
August: Wendover, USA (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
May: Emergency State: First Responder and Law Enforcement Training Architecture (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
April: Diversions & Dislocations: California's Owens Valley (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
March: Loop Feedback Loop: The Big Picture of Traffic Control In Los Angeles (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
February: A View into the Pipe: East Central Interceptor Sewer (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles

2003
October: The Nellis Range Complex - Revisited (with CLUI), Ibid Projects, London
September: Ground-Up: Photographs of the Ground in the Margins of Los Angeles (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
July: West Coast Points: A Linear Portrait from North to South (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
July: The Best Dead Mall in America: A Photographic Documentation and Indefinite Installation (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
June: Between Oregon and Mexico: The California Coastal Records Project (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
2003 continued
February: The Silent Key: Incursions into Knob Culture (Mountain Radio Project with Mason Cooley) (touring performance) Sheffield, Glasgow, Brighton, London
February: The Most Expensive Space in North America, Form + Function (group show in collaboration with AUDC), Chapman Univ. - Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA
January: Property in the Harper Lake Basin: A Project of the CLUI Desert Research Station (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles

2002
September: Antarctic 1: Views Along Antarctica's First Highway (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
August: One Wilshire: Telco Hotel Central (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
June: Alternate Routes: An Aerial Survey of the 'Inland Empire' (group show with CLUI) The California Museum of Photography at the University of California - Riverside, CA
June: Ecovention – Current Art to Transform Ecologies (group show with CLUI), Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art - Cincinnati
March: Proximity Issue: The Barricades of the Federal District (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
January: Genius Loci (with CLUI), The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCIARC) - Los Angeles
January: Genius Loci (Mountain Radio Project performance with Mason Cooley), (SCIARC) - Los Angeles
January: Lobby in Rear - DIY lo-fi electronic sounds (Mountain Radio Project with M. Cooley), The Schindler House & The Mackey Apartments Scholarship Program - Los Angeles

2001
December: Hallucination of Theory (Mountain Radio Project with M. Cooley), China Art Objects Galleries- Los Angeles
December : 100 Years of Radio (Mountain Radio Project with M. Cooley), Lat / Long: 34.08’52” x - 118.26’17”
August : Back to the Bay: An Exploration of the Marginal Zones of the San Francisco Bay (with CLUI),
The Yerba Buena Center for The Arts, San Francisco, CA
August: Vision Embraces the World (Mountain Radio Project with M. Cooley), Echo Park Projects – Los Angeles

AWARDS & HONORS

Solo
Commission - Arts Catalyst, London for Ultimate High Ground, UK project & for the Office of Experiments, Overt Research Project; Exhibition completion grant - The Durfee Foundation; Research grant - The Institute for Figuring; Vectors residency (with AUDC) - Annenberg Center for Communication Institute for Multimedia Literacy, USC

With CLUI
Lucella Award - The Smithsonian American Art Museum; Grants from: The Annenberg Foundation, The LEF Foundation, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Nevada Humanities Committee, The Lannan Foundation, The Peter Norton Family Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation

SELECTED PRINT BIBLIOGRAPHY (photographs and/or writings)

2001 - present
The Lay of the Land - CLUI Newsletter

2009
On the Banks of Bayou City: The Center for Land Use Interpretation in Houston - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and Blaffer Gallery

2008
Art Lies (Summer 2008 issue); DAMnº Magazine

2007
An Atlas of Radical Cartography (as SITE-R) - The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press; Desert America: Territory of Paradox - ACTAR Press, Ramon Prat, ed.

2006
Presidential Doodles - Immaterial Incorporated; Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the CLUI - Metropolis Books; Not A Cornfield Document - FarmLab LLC & The Annenberg Foundation; Cabinet Magazine Issues 20 & 21 - Immaterial Incorporated; Art Forum

2005
Cabinet Magazine Issues 16 & 17 - Immaterial Incorporated; LAFORUM Annual - Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design; other media, including: OnEarth,The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times; LA Weekly; Los Angeles Downtown News; Wired Magazine

2004
Dwell Magazine; Art Forum

2001
Hallucination of Theory - Art Center, Sylvere Lotringer & Giovanni Intra, eds.

SELECTED ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHY

CLUI, BldgBlog, Not a Cornfield, Artnet, Artinfo, LA Observed, California State Parks, Online Journalism Review, Curbed LA, Curbed National, Tropolism, AP News, Pruned, Wikipedia, Arthur Magazine, CBS2, Canadian Architect, Eye Spy LA, LA.com, LAist, Ag Online, The College Agricultural Newsletter, Delirious LA, ArtBlogging LA, MetroBlogging LA, Archinect

EVENTS - GUEST LECTURER / REVIEW BOARD

University College London, Institute of Archaeology; The University of Dundee, Scotland; The Schindler House (MAK CENTER); Carnegie Mellon University; University of Texas - El Paso (Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art); University of Southern California; California Institute of the Arts, Texas A&M, SCIARC; Art Center; Chapman University

ASSOCIATIONS LIST

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (laforum) - Board Member & VP Design; Architecture Urbanism Design Collective (AUDC) - Board Member; Dilettante Press; Semiotext[e]; The Center For Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) - Board Member; The Art Center College Of Design