Steven Evans
STEVEN EVANS
Steven Evans (born in Key West, Florida, 1964) graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1989 with an M.F.A. He works within a range of cultural practices and has participated in solo and group exhibitions and projects in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Basel, Berlin, Lisbon, Paris, Stockholm, and elsewhere.
Evans’ visual work explores memory, history, and identity, as well as popular culture. The work is rooted in an examination of the formation of and the shifts within sexual and gender identities, as well as the vocabularies of sub-cultures.
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS (2019 -)
2022
Steven Evans: Songs for a Memorial, New York City AIDS Memorial, New York, NY
https://www.nycaidsmemorial.org/songs
Steven Evans: Mad World, Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, TX
https://www.jonathanhopsongallery.com/madworld.html
2019
Steven Evans: If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution!, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
https://camh.org/event/steven-evans/
Steven Evans: Introspective, Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, TX
https://www.jonathanhopsongallery.com/introspective.html
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS (2006 -)
2019
Texas Extravagant Drawing, curated by Bill Arning, Fiendish Plots, Lincoln, NE
https://fiendishplots.com/exhibitions
In a Few Words, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
https://www.sikkemajenkinsco.com/ex20190124group
2018
No Turns, Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, TX
https://www.jonathanhopsongallery.com/no_turns.html
2017
CAMPIONS, Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, TX
https://www.jonathanhopsongallery.com/campions.html
2015
Powerful Babies: Keith Haring’s Impact on Artists Today, Spritmuseum, Curated by Bill Arning and Rick Herron, Stockholm
https://spritmuseum.se/en/collections/absolut-art-collection/
The Nothing That Is - a drawing show in five parts, curated by Bill Thelen, CAM, Raleigh, NC
https://camraleigh.org/the-nothing-that-is-a-drawing-show-in-5-parts/
2014
LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2, curated by Frank Wagner, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Künste (nGbK), Berlin
https://archiv.ngbk.de/en/projekte/love-aids-riot-sex-2/
2013
LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 1, curated by Frank Wagner, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Künste (nGbK), Berlin
https://archiv.ngbk.de/en/projekte/love-aids-riot-sex-1/
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Artists Space, New York, NY
https://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/machoman
Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Culturgest, Lisbon
Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
2006
The Eighth Square - Gender, Life, and Desire in the Arts since 1960, curated by Frank Wagner, Ludwig Museum, Cologne
RECENT PUBLICATIONS/PRESS (2006 -)
Anspon, Catherine D. “Signs of Our Times.” Paper City, July-August, 2019. Accessed November 11, 2021.
http://papercitymagazine.uberflip.com/i/1137940-july-august-2019-houston/53?m4=
Arning, Bill. “Up Close: Houston Loves Eccentrics.” Art in America, May 23, 2016
Artspace Editors. "How Steven Evans turned two disco classics into one timeless neon work." Artspace, June 13, 2022. Accessed June 29, 2022.
Ault, Julie, Martin Beck, Richard Birkett, editors, texts by Marvin J. Taylor, Richard Birkett, Patricia Falguières, Sarah Schulman. Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Volume II. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2016, print.
Ault, Julie, Martin Beck, Nikola Dietrich, Jason Simon, Scott Cameron Weaver, Danh Vo, Hein Peter Knes, Rasmus Rohling, Amy Zion, editors, texts by Julie Ault, Marvin J. Taylor, Miguel Wandschneider, Scott Cameron Weaver. Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Volume I. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2013.
Ault, Julie, editor, texts by Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Sabrina Locks, and Tim Rollins. Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material. London: Four Corners Books, 2010.
Byrd, Sam. “50 Years of Revolution: A Playlist of Emotions.” Outsmart Houston,
August 2019. Accessed November 11, 2021.
https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2019/08/50-years-of-revolution-a-playlist-of-emotions/
Celander, Vera, editor, texts by Bill Arning, Rick Herron, Mia Sundberg. Powerful Babies: Keith Haring’s Impact on Artists Today. Stockholm: Art And Theory Publishing, 2015.
Cotter, Holland. “Art as Currency in a Tragic Time.” The New York Times, December 19, 2013. Accessed February 20, 2022.
Daderko, Dean, editor, texts by Julie Ault, Dean Daderko, and Steven Evans. If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution!, Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2019
Daderko, Dean and Evans, Steven, "In Conversation | Steven Evans." Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2019. Archived on YouTube, accessed August 1, 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRtNhMAzSY
Daderko, Dean (uncredited), If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution!, exhibition guide. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2019. Accessed November 11, 2021.
Evans, Steven, "Artist Talk: Steven Evans" Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2015. Archived on YouTube, accessed August 1, 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc6AUfkgADM
Evans, Steven. The Number One Song In Heaven (artist’s book). Paris: Book Machine (Houston)/ onestar press, 2015 (first printing), 2019 (second printing)
Fitzgerald, Alex Philip. “'Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault' at Artists Space, New York.” Mousse Magazine, January 2, 2014. Accessed February 20, 2022.
https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/macho-man-artistsspace-newyork/
Glentzer, Molly. “Steven Evans' show at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston tunes into 50 years of gay culture.” Houston Chronicle, July 5, 2019. Accessed November 11, 2021.
Kerr, Theodore, Julie Ault. “Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project - Oral history interview with Julie Ault, November 14-16, 2017.” Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art. 2017. Accessed January 23, 2019.
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-julie-ault-17523#transcript.
Straube, Trent. "Do You Wanna Funk at an AIDS Memorial?" POZ, June 10, 2022. Accessed July 3, 2022.
https://www.poz.com/article/wanna-funk-new-yor-city-aids-memorial-hiv-song-dance
Vaccaro, Jeanne. "Jeanne Vaccaro on Steven Evans: Songs for a Memorial." New York City AIDS Memorial website. June 2022. Accessed July 18, 2022.
Wagner, Frank. LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX. Berlin: neue Gesellschaft für bildende Künste e.V. (nGbK), 2014.
Wagner, Frank, Kasper König, Julia Friedrich, editors, texts by Judith Butler, Douglas Crimp, Diedrich Diederichsen, Harald Fricke, Julia Friedrich, Hanne Loreck, Thomas Meinecke, Eva Meyer, Cristina Nord, Frank Wagner. The Eighth Square - Gender, Life, and Desire in the Arts since 1960. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2006.
Yerebakan, Osman Can. "Songs of Activism and Solidarity Adorn New York City’s AIDS Memorial." Metropolis, June 28, 2022. Accessed June 29, 2022.
https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/steven-evans-nyc-aids-memorial-installation/
CURATORIAL/MUSEUM/CULTURAL WORK AND RELATED PUBLICATIONS
The curatorial work of Steven Evans has included projects with Shilpa Gupta, Trine Sondergaard, Chow & Lin, Gauri Gill, Isaac Julien, Zachary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, Susan Philipsz, Adam Schreiber, Shahzia Sikander, Fred Sandback, Marcia Hafif, Sunil Gupta, and others. He curated Other Voices, Other Rooms, an exhibition at Dorsky Curatorial Programs in New York City that received AICA recognition in 2009. Evans is co-editor of the books African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other (Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, 2020); Velvet Generation (Houston: FotoFest, 2019); India/Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art (Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, 2018); and Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet (Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, 2016). Currently Executive Director and Curator of FotoFest, Houston, Evans is formerly Executive Director of the Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, and Managing Director of Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY.