Lisa Steele
| Lisa Steele | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 Kansas City, Missouri |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Known for | video art |
| Notable work | The Blood Records, written and annotated, 1997 (with Kim Tomczak) |
| Awards |
2005 Governor General's Award for Visual and Media art (with Kim Tomczak) 1993 Bell Canada Award for Video Art (with Kim Tomczak) 1993 Peter Herrndorf Media Arts Award (with Kim Tomczak) |
Birthday Suit – with scars and defects, 1974
2005 Governor General's Award for Visual and Media art (with Kim Tomczak) 1993 Bell Canada Award for Video Art (with Kim Tomczak)
Lisa Steele (born 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a Canadian artist, a pioneer in video art, educator, curator and co-founder of V tape in Toronto. Born in the United States, Steele moved to Canada in 1968 and is now a Canadian citizen. She has collaborated exclusively with her partner Kim Tomczak since the early 1980s.
Lisa Steele was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1947 and immigrated to Canada in 1968. An important pioneer of video art in Canada since the early 1970s, Steele has shown internationally at the Venice Biennale (1980), the Kunsthalle (Basel), the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the National Gallery of Canada, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), 49th Parallel Videoseries, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Long Beach Museum. Her videos are in collections worldwide, including The National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Houston, Texas), Ingrid Oppenheim, Concordia University (Montreal), Newcastle Polytechnic (England), Paulo Cardazzo (Milan), the Canadian Embassy (Tokyo) and the Akademie der Kunst (Berlin). She is a founding director of V tape in Toronto, a national information and distribution service for independent video and a founding publisher and editor of FUSE Magazine.
Her brother James B. Steele is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist located in Philadelphia.
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