Bio
Steven Seidenberg is an artist, poet, and philosopher whose collections of photographs include The Architecture of Silence (Contrasto, 2023), Pipevalve: Berlin (Lodima Press, 2017), and the forthcoming Kanazawa Vacancy (Chin Music, Fall 2026). He has had solo exhibitions of his work in Japan, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and the United States. He is the author of Coda (Omnidawn, 2026), Anon (Omnidawn, 2022), plain sight (Roof Books, 2020), Situ (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Null Set (2016, Spooky Actions), Itch (2015, RAW ArT Press), and numerous chapbooks of poetry and aphorism. His books have been published in Swedish, Italian, and Portuguese translation.
Artist Statement
My visual work is focused on the liminal immediacy of the perceptual field as a sculptural compendium, the fit and thrum of the everyday as it’s newly unconcealed through the compositional framework of the practice, with all of the attendant cultural and historical burdens arising as correlated limitations and pathways of inquiry. This work is always in series, directing the viewer within the conceptual brackets that delimit its iterations—a kind of poetic condensation, owing as much to the repetitions of musical minimalism as the methodological and compositional constraints of conceptual or geometric abstraction. The resultant images demonstrate a formal precision that compels ideological critique, an active evocation of wonderment, humor, and pathos in the exposition of the ready-to-hand, indexical and abstract, documentary and sublime all at once.