www.stevenlang.net

Look out below! (For my bio and exhibition history…)

Beyond writing and artwork, I enjoy travel, stage performance and music. This site is primarily about my visual artwork, but I’ve included a few surprises. In recent news, one of my short stories, “Tandem,” appears in the Milkweed Editions book Fiction on a Stick, and I’ll be heading to the Tofte Lake Center near Ely, Minnesota this September for a week-long residency to work on my novel, Pigeonhole (see below).

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Biography

I have worked as both a visual artist and a writer since graduating from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. I’ve shown my artwork at local exhibition spaces such as Art-a-Whirl, Gallery 360, and the office of the late Senator Paul Wellstone. I have also continued my work as a writer. I have contributed work to City Pages and have written several stories for various newspapers and magazines, including ASID ICON , the magazine of the American Society of Interior Designers, and Lifetime Fitness magazine. One of my short stories, “Tandem,” appears in the recent Milkweed Editions book Fiction on a Stick. In 2009 I was hired by 3M to do a series of Post-It® Note collages which in turn inspired a series of “pixel” collages and paintings.

Several years ago I began working on novel entitled Pigeonhole. This novel is about an artist named William Link, his dead mother (whose apparition appears to William from time to time), a seemingly evil neighbor named Pigeonhole, a doomed love affair, and the redemptive power of Rock’n'Roll. I recently won an artist residency at the Tofte Lake Center near Ely, Minnesota, and I’ll be spending a week there this fall working on my novel. Wish me luck…

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Resume

Education:

* B.F.A. Studio Arts, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1995

Art-Related Activities/Honors:

* Summa cum laude, Studio Arts, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota

* Dean’s List, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota

* CLA Honors Thesis Exhibition Grant, 1994

* Nolte-Miller Scholarship, University of Minnesota College of Continuing Education, 2005

* Short story published in Jerome Foundation-funded Milkweed Editions anthology Fiction on a Stick, 2008

* Artist residency, Tofte Lake Center, Ely, Minnesota 2010

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Exhibition History

Group

* Senior Thesis Exhibition, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1994

* The Art Collective, Minneapolis, 2001

* Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, 2006

* Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Competition, 2006 (Honorable Mention)

* Rake Magazine/Jazz88 Gallery Grooves featured Artist, 2007

* Uptown Art Fair, Minneapolis, 2007 (Jury Finalist)

* Gallery 360, Minneapolis, 2007

* Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Competition, 2008

* Art Per Chance, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2005-2009

* Open Eye Figure Theatre, Minneapolis, 2009

* Gallery 360, Minneapolis, 2009

* Grain Belt Art Collective, Minneapolis, 2009

* Art-a-Whirl, MicroBrew Artist Coop, Minneapolis, 2010

* Gallery 360 Ten Year Anniversary Show, Minneapolis, 2010

Solo

* Ford Centre Gallery, Minneapolis, 1995

* The Office of U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, St. Paul, 1997

* Art-a-Whirl, Minneapolis, 2001, 2004, 2006

* Buffalo Fish Fine Art, Willmar, MN 2005

* Gallery360, Minneapolis, 2008

* Mill District Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, 2009