Felipe Steinberg

Felipe Steinberg (b. Brazil, 1986) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and cultural producer interested in the meanings created around events—in how the act of re-telling shapes past events, as much as how the creation of events forges new ways of telling. Through his context-specific work, he looks at facts not in their crude facticity, but through the meditations by which facts acquire their immediacy: Psychological, historical, ideological, and economic. Steinberg attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York (2019), The Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (2016–2018), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014). He was an artist-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska (2019), and RAW Material Company, Dakar (2019). His work has been presented in venues such as Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah; Visual Arts Center-University of Texas, Austin; 1After320, New Delhi; and SESC, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. He has been awarded the Idea Fund Prize of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2017) and support from the Houston Arts Alliance Artists Individuals Grant Program (2018), among others. Steinberg is the co-founder of ACCA (Art and Culture in Contexts of Authoritarianism), a working group studying, discussing, and articulating collective and individual responses to contexts of authoritarianism with a special focus on Brazil. Recently, he was one of the lumbung Program Coordinators (Public Program) at documenta:15.