Combining an experimental practice with a curious perspective on social relations, North American intermedia artist Nathan Stevens creates dynamic installations, sculptural objects, and unique performative events that tour topics of self-reflexivity, individualism and identity-formation.
Convinced that our experience belongs on a pedestal far higher than the artwork itself, finds Stevens searching for survivors from a shipwrecked pirate radio station run aground in the middle of the museum, or competing for gallery space with an alternate artistic identity. It is this run-in with the shifting boundaries of subjectivity that allow him to explore the reflexive condition of the individual, resulting in conceptually entertaining abstractions of an ultimately awkward position in a super-modern society.
Since 2005, Stevens’ work has been shown in over 30 solo, invitational, and juried exhibitions at venues such as Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, as well as internationally at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México, Attakalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore, India, This is Not Art Festival, Newcastle, Australia, and the International Festival of Contemporary Art, Ptuj, Slovenia.
