Steve Roden
Steve Roden was born in Pasadena, in California in 1964. He died on 6 September 2023 in Los Angeles, California, United States
Solo exhibitions
2023
- Omaggio a Steve Roden, Studio la Città, Verona
2021
- Impressions, Vielmitter, Los Angeles
2019
- could/cloud, Vielmitter, Los Angeles
2017
- Steve Roden, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Mulhouse
2016
- A Year Without Painting, Susanne Vielmetter LA projects, Los Angeles
- Extra-Ordinary Things, Biola University, LA Mirada
2015
- Steve Roden and Alexandra Grant: These Carnations Defy Language, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena
2013
- Ragpicker, CRG Gallery, New York
- Rag-picker, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City
- The Spaces Contained In Each (Installazione), St. Cornelius Chapel, Governor’s Island, New York (in collaboration with Stephen Vitiello)
- Jenny Perlin & Steve Roden, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, curated by Bruce Checefsky
2012
- Bells, shells, steps and silences, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
- Some small fires, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center, City University of Hong Kong
- Notations, Marxhausen Gallery of Art, Concordia University, Seward
- Rag-picking, Singuhr Hoergalerie at Meinblau Kunsthaus, Berlin
- A song without words / a music without sound, Le Bon Accueil, Rennes
- Rag-picking (v.2), Chapellle Saint-Joseph, Montfort su Meu
2011
- Stone’s throw, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City
2010
- Steve Roden: In Between; A Mid-Career Survey, curated by Howard Fox, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA. Spostata a: San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego
- When words become forms, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
- Blinking lights at night, Phonebox at IMO projects, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008
- Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
2007
- Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin
- Reverberation: Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
2006
- lines and spaces, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City
- Steve Roden: recent work, curated by Valerio Dehò, Studio la Citta, Verona
- Steve Roden: day ring / night ring, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
- Recent Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco
2005
- seam arks, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
- seamarks, McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
- Steve Roden: Transmissions from Space, Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, Fresno
2004
- ear(th), Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
- New Work, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City
- cups into clouds, songs into rain, Gallery e/Static, Turin
- stills (for guru dutt), Tang Museum at Skidmore College, New York
2003
- the another silent green world, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont
- The silent world, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City
- the surface of the moon, Suyama Space, Seattle
- chamber music, Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle
2002
- light forms, Singuhr – Hörgalerie in Parochial, Berlin
- a year of skies, Gallery e/Static, Torino
- some reconstructions of wandering & inner space, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
2000
- Jenn Joy Gallery, San Francisco
- mir/we need to say goodbye, Studio Five Beekman, New York
- The Guardshack, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
- reading without reading/within (further), The Guardshack, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
- reading without reading/within, Podewil, Berlin
- the anatomy of touch / the alchemy of the verb, Jenn Joy Gallery, San Francisco
- the anatomy of touch, Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison
1998
- landscape, Mendenhall Art Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier
- The anatomy of touch / the alchemy of the verb, JennJoy Gallery, San Francisco
1997
- Translations & Articulations, Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice
- Either/Ore, Pac Des Ouches, Nevers
1996
- Any. Thing. Made. Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice
1995
- Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Costa Mesa
- Gallery Earthvision, Tokyo
- Gallerie OU’, Osaka
1994
- Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Costa Mesa, CA 1992 Kaibundo Gallery, Kobe
1992
- Kaibundo Gallery, Kobe
1986
- James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles
Group exhibitions
2021
- Today I would like to be a tree, Studio la Città, Verona
2020
- 20 Years Anniversary Exhibition, Vielmetter, Los Angeles
2018
- Senza Tema. Carta / Paper, Studio la Città, Verona
2016
- Sound of Silence, Broel Museum, Kortrijk
- Plus one, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley
- Synaesthesia, 5 car garage, Los Angeles
- Mas all del sonido, Muntref-Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires
- Chris Oliveria, William Basinski, Steve Roden, Volume Los Angeles
- Extra-ordinary things, Green Gallery, Biola University, La Mirada
- Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires
- Sound of Silece, Broel Museum, Kortrijk
- MAK, curated by Michael Ned Holte, Schindler House, Los Angeles
- Sweet Gongs Vibrating, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego
2015
- Wunderkammer, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont
- By This River, curated by Michael Solway, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati
- The recorder was left on, or the closer I get to the end the more I rewrite the beginning, curated by Suzy Halajan, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles
2014
- First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias #1: Cartagena, Cartagena de Indias
- Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
- Reverb!, curated by Max Presneill, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
- Portraits of the Gardens, Stuart Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, La Caada Flintridge
2013
- In the Sance Room: Acquisition Highlights from 2003-2013, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
- Heroes, Carter & Citizen, Los Angeles
- LINES + SPACES, curated by John Yau, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford
- Observer Effect, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Things He Would Like, Gallery e/Static, Torino
2012
- Silence, The Menil Collection, Houston. Traveled to: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
- Purepresence Presents: Parisonic Room, La Gaite Lyrique, Pairs
- Finale, Inglewood Main Library, Inglewood
- Soundworks, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- Forte Piano: the Shapes of Sound, Parco de la Musica, Auditorium, Rome
- Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
2011
- With Hidden Noise, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
- An Exchange eith Sol Lewitt, Cabinet, New York
- Absence/Presence: Contemporary Abstraction, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma
- Summer Group Sculpture Show, CRG Gallery, New York
- In and Outside: Writing, Voorkamer, Lier
- Time Again, Sculpture Center, New York
- Game Theory, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle
- Worlds, Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
2010
- ARTe SONoro, curated by Jose Manuel Costa, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
- Ear to the Page, curated by Alan Light and James Hoff, Center for Book Arts, New York
- Re-Sound, Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis
- Sound in Space, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown
- The Drawing Machines, Galleria Gregor Podnar, Berlin
- The Hendersons Will Be There, BravinLee Programs, New York
- Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City
2009
- All Time Greatest, Kitty Chester Series of Curator’s Laboratory Project; The Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Abstract Alchemists: Chris Martin, Andrew Masullo, and Steve Roden, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert
- Cartographic Imagination: Mapping in Contemporary California Art, San Francisco State University, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco
- Bivouac, curated by Fionn Meade, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
- Heart in Heart, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
- Hidden City, various sites, Peregrine Arts, Philadelphia
2008
- at the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, The Armory Gallery, Pasadena
- Selections from the Permanent Collection, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
- L.A. Now, curated by David Pagel, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas
- L.A. Paint, curated by Philip Linhares The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland
- Perspectives 163: Every Sound You Can Imagine, curated by Toby Kamps and Christopher Cox The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston Traveled to: New Langton Arts, San Francisco
- Marfa Sessions, curated by Regine Basha & the Relay Project, Marfa Ballroom and Various Sites, Marfa
- Happy New Ears, curated by Joost Fonteyne Kortrijk
- Southern California Painting, curated by Phil Linares, Oakland Museum
- (dis)concert “sound objects”, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
- Some Paintings: The Third (2007) LA Weekly Annual Biennial, curated by Doug Harvey, Track 16, Santa Monica
- Before and After Science, curated by Michael Ned Holte, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2007
- Mercosur Biennial, Porto Allegre
- Sleppet (part of Grieg ’07), curated by Jorgen Larsen, Bergen, Norway, traveling to Oslo
- soundwaves, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
- between thought and sound, curated by Debra Singer and Matthew Lyons, The Kitchen, New York
- Reverberations: Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello, curated by Regine Basha, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
- decoupage (f d), Blank, Torino
- Open End, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles
- Kit Bashing, Western Bridge, Seattle
- invisible. Other, curated by TJ Norris, New American Art Union, Portland
2006
- The Grand Promenande, curated by Anna Kafetsi, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
- Eco E Narciso, curated by Danieal Cascella and Rebecca De Marchi, Museum of Modern Architecture (MaAm), Ivrea
- Draw A Line, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood
- (Keep Feeling) Fascination: Recent Abstract Painting in Los Angeles, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles
- Space is the Place, 2005 Independent Curators International, curated by Alex Baker and Toby Kamps. Traveled to: Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland; Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hill; Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Cincinnati; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers
- Intersections, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron
- Cityscapes, ARCO, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Madrid
- Otis / LA, Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
- Immodesty, Another Year in LA, curated by Linda Day, Los Angeles
2005
- Sculturra Liggera / Light Sculpture, curated by Simone Menegoi, 503 Mulino, Vicenza
- COLA, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Award, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
- Park Sounds, Serpentine Gallery, London
- EN/OF Editions, Printed Matter, New York
- In the Abstract, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
- Percussion Music, Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles
- Artists Select Artists, Kustera Tilton Gallery, New York
- I10, McClean Gallery, Houston
- je ne regrette rien, Studio la Citta, Verona
- Wordplay, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
- In Resonance, curated by Fionn Meade and Robert Millis, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
- sounds like drawing, curated by Anthony Huberman, The Drawing Room, London
2004
- Listen, curated by Boris Tissot, Pompidou Center, Paris
- Specific Objects: The Minimalist Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
- Treble, curated by Regine Basha, The Sculpture Center, New York
- Painting Now, The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
- The Sound of Place / The Place of Sound, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum
- southwestNET: PHX/LA, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale
2003
- audiolab 2, Centre George Pompidou Museum, Paris
- Painting by Letters, curated by Eve Wood, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
- Graphic Eloquence, curated by Francis Colpitt, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio
- Before and After Sound, e/Static Gallery, Torino
- Transmission, curated by Steve Peters, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque
2002
- Resonance 2, Stadtgalerie, Saarbrucken
- 25th anniversary selections exhibition, The Drawing Center
- New Works / New Spaces, curated by Jay Belloli, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
- Liminal Spaces, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
- LA Freewaves, Mario’s Furniture, Los Angeles, citywide media festival
2001
- In Between Outdoors, MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles
- Snapshot, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA & Miami MOCA, Miami
- Cross-Cuts, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles
- 6 Degrees: Art in the Libraries, Hollywood Regional Branch LA Public Library, Los Angeles
- Between Representation, curated by Doug Harvey, INMO Gallery, Los Angeles
2000
- Break Step, INMO Gallery, Los Angeles
- En Red O, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
- Exquisitely Wrought, curated by John O’Brien, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles
- The Other Side of Zero, Video Positive Festival, Tate Gallery Liverpool
1999
- Fall Selections 99, The Drawing Center, New York
- Motion Studies, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
- Sig Alert, curated by John Spiak, ASU Art Museum, Tempe
- Painting…, curated by Habib Khederyer, Post, Los Angeles
1998
- Sound, Refusalon, curated by Jennifer Hope Davy, San Francisco
- ISEA 98, various sites, Liverpool
- Open Container, curated by David Hunt, Refusalon, San Francisco
- Viaggiatori, Palazzo Dei Consoli, Gubbio
- The House Was Quiet…, site specific installation, Senkoji Temple, Osaka
- Sound Pictures, Komaba Ryo Gallery, Tokyo University, Tokyo
1997
- Parallels, Kunstalle Grassi-Museum, Leipzig
- Allegorical Re/Visions, curated by Noel Karten & Ruth Weisberg, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
1996
- Tangles, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles
- Currents in Abstraction, Ikon Ltd/Fine Art, Los Angeles
- Triennial Sofia ’96 Exhibition of Painting, Art Gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
- Dal ‘Campo d’Obsservazione’ to ‘The Brewery’, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio
1994
- Transtextualism, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica
- Far Bazzar, The Brewery, Los Angeles
1993
- Peculiar Paintings, Woodbury College, Burbank
- Germinal Notations, Food House, Santa Monica
1992
- FAR Bazzar, The Old Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles