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STEVE LAMBERT Web: visitsteve.com

Education 2006 University of California at Davis | MFA, Studio Art

2001 San Francisco Art Institute | BFA, Interdisciplinary

1995–98 College of San Mateo (Community College may have saved my life)

Grants, Awards, & Residencies 2012 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM | Artist Residency for Half-Life Exhibition Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL | Visual Arts Network (VAN) Artist Residency Institutional Grant | A Blade of Grass (for Center for Artistic Activism Book Project) Open Society Foundations Democracy and Power Grant (for Center for Artistic Activism)

2011 SPACES, Cleveland, OH | Artist Residency

2010 Headlands Center for the Arts | 2010 Bridge Residency Open Society Institute Grant, 2010–2011 (for the School for Creative Activism) Pacific Foundation Partnership, 2009–2010

2009 Prix Ars Electronica | Award of Distinction | for New York Times Special Edition Lower East Side Printshop | Special Editions Residency

2008 Eyebeam Art & Technology Center | Senior Fellowship San Francisco Weekly | Best Public Art of 2008 Turbulence Commission | for ABSML with Jeff Crouse

2007 Rhizome Commission for AddArt | Member Selection Eyebeam Art & Technology Center | Senior Fellowship

2006–07 Eyebeam Art & Technology Center | OpenLab R&D Fellowship

2004 Creative Work Fund | Visual Art Award | for The Anti-Advertising Agency

2002 California Arts Council Residency Grant | Artist In Residence

1981 San Mateo Times | Father’s Day Draw Your Dad Contest | 1st Prize

Solo Exhibitions 2012 Charlie James Gallery, LA CA | TBA (September) Real Art Ways, Hartford CT | Capitalism Works For Me! True/False

2011 SPACES, Cleveland OH | “Capitalism Works For Me”

2009 Pulse Miami Art Fair | IMPULSE Solo Feature with Charlie James Gallery Charles James Gallery, Los Angeles CA | “Everything You Want Right Now!”

2005 McBean Project Space at the San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA | Offices of the Anti-Advertising Agency

Selected Group Exhibitions 2012 Decordova Biennial | Decordova Museum, Lincoln MA Enacting Populism | Kadist Foundation, Paris MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca: Panorama de 31 artistas internacionales, Multiple Cultural Venues, Oaxaca, Mexico

Half Life: Patterns of Change | Santa Fe Art Institute Capital Offense: The End(s) of Capitalism | Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles

2011 Creative Time’s Living as Form SPACES, Cleveland OH | Capitalism Works For Me! The Harlem Stage, NYC | A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World Charlie James Gallery and Marine, Los Angeles | If These Walls Could Talk group show

2010 Portland Art Museum, Portland Maine | False Documents and Other Illusions Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC | “Short Term Deviation” Just Art 2010 | NY CLU Benefit Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA | HollywoodMerchmART! curated by Emma Grey Park Life, SF CA | “this is the book I have written for you” U.Turn Art Space, Cinncinati OH | Palling Around with Socialists Eyebeam Art and Technology Center | Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich | Drawings curated by Marcel van Eeden Lower East Side Printshop | EDITIONS 10 San Francisco Fine Art Fair NEXT Exhibition, Chicago PULSE Art Fair, NYC

2009 Piemonte Share Festival, Torino Italy The Arts Guild of Rahway, NJ | Moolah: An Exhibit About Money Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek | SF Arts Commission Art on Market Street Project Schroeder Romero Gallery, NYC | Play It Forward Gallery Alfero, NJ | Camera Chimera OK Centre, Linz, Austria | Ars Electronica Award Exhibition Jen Bekman Gallery, NY | Summer Reading Weatherspoon Art Museum | Our Subject Is You San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art | It’s Not Us, It’s You FACT, Liverpool | Climate for Change

2008 The Vera List Center at Parsons The New School for Design | Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding Park Avenue Armory/Creative Time | Democracy In America: The National Campaign The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ | The House That Sprawl Built Articule - Viva Art Action Montreal | Black Market Type & Print Shop Poster Series International Guerilla Video Festival, Milan, Italy The Audacity of Desperation | Urbana Champaign IMC, traveled to PS 122 Gallery at DEMO Space 122 Whitney Museum of American Art | Whitney Biennial - collaboration with Neighborhood Public Radio Catharine Clark Gallery, SF, CA | “Wish You Were Here: Postcards from our Awesome Future” prints

2007 20th Dallas Video Festival | “Tech-Art Activism: A Video Art Collection curated by Carolyn Sortor” Eyebeam, NY NY | “Source Code: 10th Anniversary Show” American Film Institute, LA, CA | "Pixelodeon 2007â³ | curated by Kenyatta Cheese YBCA, SF CA | Collective Foundation Centre de Cultura Contempornia de Barcelona | “OFFF Festival” | w/ Graffiti Research Lab Federation Square Big Screen, Melbourne Australia | “Caught on Tape” The Lab, SF CA | “Corporate Identity” Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival | for the Samaras Project (with Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee)

2006 Glowlab Conflux 2006 | Brooklyn, NY | with Sara Dierck and Michael Dodge as Anti-Advertising Agency The Lab, SF CA | “Some Assembly Required” curated by Michael Arcega and Stephen Wolf Catharine Clark Gallery, SF CA | with Packard Jennings as Anti-Advertising Agency The New Gallery, Calgary Alberta CANADA | Shopdropping

2005 Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 2005 Rotterdam VHS Festival POND Gallery, SF CA | Shopdropping Haley Martin Gallery, SF CA | Sprawl

2004 The Luggage Store | “A Spoonful of Sugar” Mission 17, SF CA | “Budget Gallery Allstars” New Langton Arts, SF CA | Underwear Party/li>

2003 stART at Judson Church, NY NY | “Breaking News”

2002 Luggage Store Gallery, SF CA | “NO WAR” Detroit Museum of New Art, Detroit MI | “Ground Zero”

2001 Theater for the New City, NY NY | “Counting Coup” Center for Social Change, Northhampton MA | “Counting Coup”

2000 Havana, Cuba | 7th Havana Biennial | “Paladar”

Collections Sheldon Museum of Art

Library of Congress

Progressive Insurance Collection

Selected Public Art Works & Projects 2012 "It’s Time to Fight” Billboard, Manchester, England

2011- “Capitalism Works For Me! True/False” | Temporary public art installation touring Cleveland, Boston, Hartford, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, and other cities.

2011 “I Want You To Have This” | Edition of 80 with subscription art service, The Present Group

2008 Viva Art Action Montreal | Black Market Type & Print Shop | Posters pasted around Montreal in conjunction with exhibition

2007 San Francisco Arts Commission Art on Market Street Poster Series Davis Art Commission, Davis CA | Welcoming Committee performance | Curated by Renny Pritikin

2006 The Steve Lambert Show | series of bi-weekly experimental public affairs radio programs on KDVS radio.

Curatorial Projects 2008–11 Add-Art | Browser plugin that replaces online advertising with art

2006- WhyTheyHate.US | Online

1999-‘05 The Budget Gallery | San Francisco and Los Angeles

2003 Adeline Kent Award | “Gail Wight: The Evolution of Disarticulation” | Walter McBean Gallery Stencils: The Art of Negative Spaces | with StencilArchive.Org Learning to Love You More with Aragon High School | Assignment #5 | San Mateo City Hall

2001 San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA | “Prime Time” Lecture Series for SFAI Artists Committee

Writing 2009 “The Yes Men” BOMB Magazine, Spring 2009

2008 The Great Internet Wiki Marathon New York Foundation for the Arts NYFA Current Magazine, May 2008

Documentary Films 2011 This Space Available: The Grassroots Movement Against Visual Pollution

2010 Cultures of Resistance

2009 The Yes Men Fix The World

2008 Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season

Books 2011 Jorinde Seijdel (Editor), Liesbeth Melis (Editor), Merijn Oudenampsen (Editor), Open 20: The Populist Imagination, NAi Publishers, Pgs 27–37 Iaspis, DESIGN ACT Socially and politically engaged design today critical roles and emerging tactics, Sternberg Press xtine burrough (editor), NetWorks: Case Studies in Web Art and Design, Routledge Dalton Conley, You may Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist, 2e., W. W. Norton & Company

2010 Marc and Sara Schiller, TRESSPASS A History of Uncomissioned Urban Art, Taschen Press Patrick Frank, Prebles’ Artforms, 10th edition, Prentice Hall, pg. 447 Stphanie Lemoine, Artivisme: Art, Action Politique et Rsistance Culterelle, Editions Alternatives/li>

2009 The Yes Men Activity book/Keep It Slick, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson (editors), Institutional Critique, MIT Press Annice Jacoby (editor) Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo! Abrams Press

2008 Russell Howze, Stencil Nation, Manic D Press, Inc. Nato Thompson (editor), A Guide to Democracy in America Creative Time Books

2007 Keri Smith The Guerilla Art Kit Princeton Architectural Press

2004 Josh MacPhee, Stencil Pirates Soft Skull Press

Bibliography 2012 WNPR, Connecticut Public Radio – interview during local segment on Morning Edition Boston Metro, “Artwork Capitalizes on Public Spaces, Feedback” p2, April 10, 2012 Francine Koslow Miller, “At the DeCordova Biennial, Dreams of Disneyland” Art in America, Jan 26th

2011 Rens Groenendijk, “Het Katern/Onzichtbaar” Eigen Huis & Interieur (Netherlands), October 2011, pg 271 Joseph Clark, “Patriot Games” Cleveland Scene Magazine, Sept 14, 2011 Steven Litt, “Spaces gallery kicks off Fall season with a slant toward conceptual art”, Cleveland Plain

Dealer, August 26th Rob Walker, “Implausible Futures for Unpopular Places” DesignObserver.com John d’Addario, “The (Other) C-Word” Hyperallergic.com Paul Laster, “The Best Art Projects in the History of Kickstarter” flavorwire.com

2010 Sarah Hanley, Lower East Side Printshops Special Edition Residency 2010 Catalog essay, Lower East Side Printshop Erin Lindholm, “New York’s Satellite Fairs: Bling, String, and Subversive Things” artinamericamagazine.com, March 10, 2010 Rachel Dry, The slackers’ guide to New Year’s resolutions, The Washington Post, January 3, 2010

2009 Geez Magazine, Back Cover Image Christopher Knight “Review: Steve Lambert at Charlie James Gallery” Los Angeles Times, May 15, 2009 Ben Marks “It’s Not Us, It’s You” KQED Arts, May 07, 2009 Fillip Magazine “Best Case Scenario” Winter 2009 Harper’s Magazine “The Times, They Are A-Changin’” January 2009 Paddy Johnson "Best of the Web 2008â³ artfagcity.com, January 12, 2008 Jenna Wortham “Firefox Add-Ons Double as Art, Pranks and Fun” The New York Times Bits Blog, February 12, 2009

2008 Carl Lavin, Iraq War Ends (On Paper); Why real newspapers should take a lesson from a fake one. Forbes.com Nato Thompson (editor), “A Guide to Democracy in America” Creative Time Books Geoff Manaugh, “Q&A” Dwell Magazine, October 2008, page 64 Andrew Adam Newman, “Profile: Steve Lambert.” AdWeek Magazine, June 30, 2008 Hamilton Nolan “Offers You Can’t Refuse: Get Paid to Quit the Advertising Industry!” Gawker.com, April 17 2008 Bryant Park Project “Dialog Over Public Advertising Gets Sticky” National Public Radio, April 2008 Lamar Clarkson “WikiBusiness” ArtNews, April 2008 Roberta Fallon “Come Play With Me” Philadelphia Weekly, January 23rd, 2008 Eliran Levy, Maariv Weekend (Israel), p10,11 Jan 4, 2008

2007 Michael Leaverton “World of Tomorrow” SF Weekly, Arts and Entertainment, November 14, 2007 Elizabeth Haines "Windows and Wallpapering: Questions about Art, Technology and Poetic Interference ModArt Magazine, October 2007 Merit Karise “Interview with Steve Lambert” Estonian Ekspress (Estonia), August 30, 2007 Stefano Caldana "Llega el plugin art para Firefox El Pas, CiberPas9, July 9, 2007 CBC News “Banner ads spur positive responses, study finds” CBC News Online, May 15, 2007 Andrew Adam Newman “Web Fight: Blocking Ads and Adding Art” New York Times, C8, May 14, 2007 Florencia Werchowsky "La protesta contra la polucin publicitaria Clarn (Argentina), Mar 18, 2007 Rocketboom.com, “Field Report” (Light Criticism), Jan 25, 2007

2006 Cory Doctorow, “Biofeedback Game Where You Compete to Relax” BoingBoing.net, July 21, 2006 Ivan Fulco, “Simmer Down Sprinters: Videogiocare con lo stress” La Stampa (Italy), Aug 24, 2006 Kenneth Baker, “Jennings and Dulzaides at Clark” San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, 2006 Rachel Gregg, “A Parallel Universe” Sacramento News & Review, Page 15–17, Jan 12, 2006, Vol 17 Issue 42 McVeigh, Jennifer “Shop Till you Drop: The Art of Shopping Takes on New Meaning” Calgary Herald June 2006 Del Pesco, Joseph “Beware of Subversion in Your Supermaket” Fast Forward, Calgary, June 8th 2006

2005 Scott Indrisek, “Budget Gallery” BlackBook Magazine: State of the Arts Issue, Page 58, Fall 2005, n40 Kathleen Holder, “Anarchists Unite!” Dateline UCDavis, Page 2, Oct 7, 2005, v19, n4 David Kaplan, “Anti-Advertising Antidote” MediaPost’s Media, Page 13, March 2005

2004 Elise Soukup, “Advertising: Counterprogramming” Newsweek Magazine, Pg13, October 11, 2004, vCXLIV, n15 Jess Greenwood, “The Sky’s Off Limits” The Reel Magazine, Pg38, October 2004, Issue12, London, England Wooster Collective Website “Profile: Steve Lambert”, August 2, 2004

2003 Emily Landes, “Talking Back Public Space One Art Show at a Time” The Wave Magazine, Pg35, Jun 4, 2003, v3 i11 Aurelia d’Andrea, “Vigilante: A Veteran Street Artist Leaves his Mark for Political Change” (with SF Print Collective), [X]Press Magazine, Pg10, April 2003 Kitchen Sink Magazine | “The New Art Scene: Art Found Alive and Well and Living in the Bay Area”

2001 Manny Hyde, “Puppet Street Project” Punk Planet Magazine, Pg 58–60, May/June 2001, i43 Bay Area and National TV News | Coverage for Puppet Street Project

Performances And Lectures 2012 Creative Time Summit | NYC CAFK+A Big Ideas Lecture | Kitchener Ontario Visiting Artist Lecture, Arts Practicum Program in NYC NYU Hemispheric Institute “Creative Activism Thursdays” Lecture on Comedy and Activism

2011 Occupy Amsterdam Art Tent |“‘Political Expressionism’ and Other Fallacies of the Political Artist” informal lecture Carnegie Mellon University | “‘Political Expressionism’ and Other Fallacies of the Political Artist” lecture and workshop with Stephen Duncombe School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Colloquium “From Appropriation to Infiltration: Accessing Public through Tactical Media” De Baile, Amsterdam | Symposium “The Populist Front; On the Role of Myth, Storytelling and Imaginary in Populist Movements”

2010 The New Museum | “Free: A Talk and Walking Tour with Jokes” Liquid Democracies Panel at Transmediale Festival, Berlin Germany | “Utopia” Parsons/The New School - School of Art, Media, and Technology | Visiting Artists Lecture Headlands Center for the Arts | “The YouTube School of Social Politics” lecture (a Red76 project) Humanity in Action NYC | “American Protest” lecture and panel Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC | “Discussion: The Artist-Citizen, Advocating Change”

2009 FREEDOM: Do It Yourself with Steve Lambert and Sam Gould | Vera List Center at the New School, NY The Brooklyn Rail Presents RhantRhapsody #19 “The Absurdity of Hope” | Reading Everything You Want, Right Now! How advertising distorts culture | Figment Festival, Pershing Hall, Governors Island, NYC But Does it Work? | with Stephen Duncombe and Joseph Delappe | Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY Red76 Flying University’s Pop-Up Book Academy Carnegie Mellon Department of Art | School of Art Lecture Series

2008 Harvard University | The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents Bring Your Own: Voices of the Contemporary University of Iowa | Artist Lecture: The Eyebeam Roadshow The New Museum | Rhizome Commission presentation Museum of Modern Art | Graffiti Research Lab Screening and Panel Discussion with James Powderly and Evan Roth Gelf Magazine Presents | Non-Motivational Speaker Series with Alan Abel and Ron English California College of the Arts | Urban Visions Panel with Packard Jennings, Peter Albert, John Peterson, Tom Radulovich, and Seleta Reynolds

2007 UC Santa Barbara | Guest Artist Lecture Maker Faire Bay Area, San Mateo County Fairgrounds | Lecture with James Powderly University of California Institute for Research in the Arts State of the Arts Conference | D I Y = > D I T : New Social Practices & Digital Distribution with James Powderly of the Graffiti Research Lab, Sal Randolph, Josh Greene, and Larisa Mann. Free University Program at Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago IL | VERSION>07 THE INSURECTION INTERNATIONALE Mess Hall, Chicago IL | Eyebeam Roadshow Centre de Cultura Contempornia de Barcelona | Now: Meetings in the Present Continuous | Panel discussion with Gemma Galdon, Richard Sennett, and Pierre Humeau Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology | The Great Internet Sleepover | “Game Show” Transmodernage Festival, Baltimore | “I WILL TALK”

Fountain Art Fair, New York | “I WILL TALK⦔ Eyebeam | Shopdropping Workshop Series

2006 Mission Cultural Center | “Can You Buy Beauty?” | Panel Discussion for Dancer’s Group in conjunction with Jo Kreiter’s “The Live Billboard Project” Version Festival 06 | Free University Program | Lecture

2003 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | Panelist | 2003 Make Art Your Business Workshop Series Leadership High School SF CA | Art and Political Expression Workshop Stanford University | Stencil Making Workshop

Teaching 2012 Assistant Professor in New Media, State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase

2010–2012 Regular Full-Time Faculty in Text and Image Arts | School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2008- Creative Capital Foundation | Internet for Artists Workshop Leader

2010 NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program | “Don’t Be a Jerk, Share Your Code” workshop for ITP Summer Camp

2008–10 Hunter College Film and Media Department, InterMedia Arts Program | Adjunct Lecturer | Culture Jamming Parsons/The New School for Design | Adjunct Lecturer | Foundations Laboratory

2007 Parsons/The New School for Design | Adjunct Lecturer | Foundations Laboratory City University of New York - College of Staten Island | Adjunct Lecturer | History of advertising and practice of social marketing

2006 San Francisco Art Institute Adult Community Education | Instructor | Darkroom Photo and Video University of California at Davis | Associate Instructor | course: Drawing 2

2005 University of California at Davis | Associate Instructor | course: Drawing 1

2003–04 Aragon High School San Mateo, CA | Classroom Instructor, 3d Art

2002–03 Artist-in-Residence | Aragon High School | San Mateo CA (Grant from California Arts Council)

1995–98 Chief Announcer, Production Director, Music Director | KZSU Stanford Radio | Stanford CA

Affiliations 2011- Founder and Co-Director | Center for Artistic Activism

2008–09 Contributor | Joey Skaggs’ ArtOfThePrank.com

2005- Contributor | Stay Free! Daily

2004 Founder/“CEO” | the Anti-Advertising Agency

2003–04 Co-Chair | San Francisco Art Institute Artists Committee

2000–02 Member | San Francisco Art Institute Artists Committee

1999- Founder/Co-Director | The Budget Gallery

Et Cetera 2004 Electric Bass | Lord Loves A Working Man | 9 piece soul band

2001–02 Upright bass with honky-tonk/western swing band | Johnny Dilks and his Visitacion Valley Boys

2001 Electric Bass | Harold Ray Live in Concert | Founding member

1999 Electric bass with 11 piece Northern Soul band | the InCiters

1976 Born | Los Angeles, CA