A.L. Steiner

A. L. Steiner
Born	1967 (age 50–51) Miami, Florida
Residence	Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	George Washington University
Known for	Multimedia art, photography, collage, video, performance art
Notable work	Chicks on Speed, W.A.G.E.
Website	http://www.hellomynameissteiner.com

A. L. Steiner (born 1967 in Miami, Florida) is an American multimedia artist, author and educator, based in Brooklyn, New York. Her solo and collaborative art projects use constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, and performance. Steiner's art incorporates queer and eco-feminist elements. She is a collective member of the musical group Chicks on Speed; and, along with Nicole Eisenman, is a co-curator/co-founder of Ridykeulous, a curatorial project that encourages the exhibitions of queer and feminist art.

A. L. Steiner was born in 1967 in Miami, Florida. Steiner received a Bachelor of Arts in 1989 in Communication from George Washington University.

She was Visiting Assistant Professor and M.F.A. Program Director the Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California in 2014.

Steiner is the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2017), the 2015-2016 Berlin Prize, and the 2015 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant.

More real than reality itself was a "multichannel video installation" for the Whitney Biennial of 2014. The piece aimed to examine political activism and documentary films, especially their use of linear narratives. The film was originally exhibited alongside the installation Cost-benefit analysis, a "collage of images of bodies and the environments they inhabit that amplifies the exchanges and encounters staged in the film." Steiner said of the piece,

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