Steve Lambert’s father, a former Franciscan monk, and mother, and
ex-Dominican nun, imbued the values of dedication, study, poverty, and
service to others – qualities which prepared him for life as an artist.
Despite never graduating from high school, Steve went on to study sociology,
film, and music before receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San
Francisco Art Institute in 2000 and a Master of Fine Arts degree at UC Davis
in 2006. He founded the outdoor, guerilla art gallery, the Budget Gallery,
in 1999 and the Anti-Advertising Agency in 2004.
Steve’s projects and art works have won awards from Rhizome/The New Museum, the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Belle Foundation, and others. He earned the “Best Public Art” award from the San Francisco Weekly in 2008. His work has been shown nationally in cities like Detroit, New York, and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as internationally in Havana, Canada, Barcelona, and Rotterdam. Writings about his work have appeared in multiple publications such as the New York Times, Punk Planet, Artweek, and Newsweek magazine and featured on National Public Radio.
Steve is currently a Senior Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York and teaches at Parsons/The New School and Hunter College.
See also:
Steve’s site: visitsteve.com
Wish You Were Here: Postcards From Our Awesome Future (Utopian Visions of San Francisco)