Steve Roden

steve roden is a visual and sound artist from los angeles. his work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, performance, and writing.

he has been exhibiting his visual and sound works since the mid 1980's, and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including: susanne vielmetter LA and berlin projects, studio la citta gallery verona italy, the mercosur biennial porto alegre brazil, centre georges pompidou paris, the san diego museum of contemporary art, the ucla hammer museum los angeles,the museum of contemporary art EMST athens, singuhr-horgalerie in parochial, berlin, center for book arts new york, pomona college museum of art, claremont ca, la casa encendida madrid, IMO projects copenhagen denmark, and others. he has also performed at various arts spaces and experimental music festivals worldwide including the serpentine gallery london, the san francisco museum of modern art, the walker art center, minneapolis, the dca dundee scotland, redcat theater los angeles, as well as performance tours of brazil and japan.

roden has also released over 20 cds of his own audio work on labels worldwide. he received an mfa from art center college of design in pasadena, ca in 1989, and a bfa from otis parsons in los angeles in 1986. grants and awards include: chinati foundation artist in residence, foundation for contemporary artist grant, california community foundation & getty foundation mid career artist fellowship grant; nimoy artist in residence grant; city of los angeles cola award; city of pasadena individual artist grant, durfee foundation grant; california arts council visual artist grant.

over the past 10 years, writing has become a larger aspect of roden's work with essays and poetic texts for numerous online and print journals, anthologies and sound art histories including MIT press, rizzoli, smart art press, and others.

roden's most recent publication is "i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces" published by dust to digital. the book compiles selections from the artist's collection of music related photographs circa 1880 - 1940, literary quotations regarding sound and silence, and includes 2 cds of 78 rpm recordings, also from roden's collection. it has been praised by the los angeles times, the chicago reader, the wire magazine, and numerous blogs and indie record stores.