University of California at Davis | MFA, Studio Art
2001
San Francisco Art Institute | BFA, Interdisciplinary
1997
College of San Mateo | Sociology, film, and music studies
Grants, Awards, & Residencies
2008
Best Public Art of 2008 | San Francisco Weekly
Turbulence Commission | for ABSML with Jeff Crouse
2007
Rhizome Commission for AddArt | Member Selection
Senior Fellowship | Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, New York NY
2006-07
OpenLab R&D Fellowship | Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, New York NY
2005
Nelson ARTfriends Grant
Fay Nelson Award
2004
Creative Work Fund | Visual Art Award | for The Anti-Advertising Agency
Individual Grant | Belle Foundation Grant for Cultural Development
2003
Annual Adbusters TV contest | 1st Prize
Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize | Finalist
2002
California Arts Council Residency Grant | Artist In Residence
1980
San Mateo Times | Father’s Day Draw Your Dad Contest | 1st Prize
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Glowlab, Brooklyn NY | “Drawings by Steve Lambert”
2007
San Francisco Arts Commission | Art on Market Street Program | with Packard Jennings (Dec 07)
2006
2006 Gallery Anno Domini, San Jose CA | Simmer Down Sprinter | for ZeroOne SJ Arts & Technology Festival
2005
Bayenalle | 21 Grand, Oakland CA | Lawrence Livermore Conversion Plans
McBean Project Space at the San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA | Offices of the Anti-Advertising Agency
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Viva Art Action Montreal | Black Market Type & Print Shop Poster Series
The Audacity of Desperation | Urbana Champaign IMC, traveled to PS 122 Gallery at DEMO Space 122
The Show Starts at the Sidewalk | part of Interrupt! Intervene! Art as Social Practice conference at UC Santa Cruz
Whitney Museum of American Art | Whitney Biennial - collaboration with Neighborhood Public Radio
Rotterdam VHS Festival | Screening of Ronald’s Crisis
CUNY Graduate Center, NY | “Where The Truth Lies: A Symposium on Propaganda Today” screening of Light Criticism
Catharine Clark Gallery | “Wish You Were Here: Postcards from our Awesome Future” prints
2007
20th Dallas Video Festival | “Tech-Art Activism: A Video Art Collection curated by Carolyn Sortor”
ROODKAPJE, Rotterdam | “GIMMEGIMME”
Eyebeam, NY NY | “Source Code: 10th Anniversary Show”
American Film Institute, LA, CA | “Pixelodeon 2007″ (part of Kenyatta Cheese’s curated program)
YBCA, SF CA | Collective Foundation
Headlands Center for the Arts | Close Calls: 2007
Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona | “OFFF Festival” | w/ Graffiti Research Lab
Federation Square Big Screen, Melbourne Australia | “Caught on Tape”
The Lab, SF CA | “Corporate Identity”
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival | for the Samaras Project (with Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee)
Mid-Atlantic Media Forum/New Jersey Technology Council | Media Showcase
2006
Glowlab Conflux 2006 | Brooklyn, NY | with Sara Dierck and Michael Dodge as Anti-Advertising Agency
The Lab, SF CA | “Some Assembly Required” curated by Michael Arcega and Stephen Wolf
Catharine Clark Gallery, SF CA | with Packard Jennings as Anti-Advertising Agency
The New Gallery, Calgary Alberta CANADA | Shopdropping
2005
Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 2005 Rotterdam VHS Festival
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SF CA | Commission 05
Artists Television Access Window Installation, SF CA | Sound work with the Anti-Advertising Agency
POND Gallery, SF CA | Shopdropping
Haley Martin Gallery, SF CA | Sprawl
Pence Gallery, Davis CA | “we are not famous”
2004
The Luggage Store | “A Spoonful of Sugar”
Mission 17, SF CA | “Budget Gallery Allstars”
New Langton Arts, SF CA | Underwear Party
ABCO Waterproofing, Oakland CA | Homeland Security Show
2003
stART at Judson Church, NY NY | “Breaking News”
Crucible Steel Gallery, SF CA | “Stencils: The Art of Negative Spaces”
Highly Disgruntled Film Festival, SF CA
Galeria De La Raza, SF CA | “Moment’s Notice”
Freyberger Gallery, Reading PA | “Ground Zero”
Pond, SF CA | “Mural Campesino Benefit”
2002
Luggage Store Gallery, SF CA | “NO WAR”
Balazo/Mission Badlands, SF CA | “BU$H”
Neurot Festival, SF CA | Video Display
Start Soma Gallery, SF CA | “Propaganda”
Detroit Museum of New Art, Detroit MI | “Ground Zero”
2001
Scott Pfaffman Gallery, NY NY | “Undo”
Theater for the New City, NY NY | “Counting Coup”
Open Space Gallery, Allentown PA | “Counting Coup”
Center for Social Change, Northhampton MA | “Counting Coup”
2000
Havana, Cuba | 7th Havana Biennial | “Paladar”
Performances
2007
Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology | The Great Internet Sleepover | “Game Show”
Transmodernage Festival, Baltimore | “I WILL TALK…”
Fountain Art Fair, New York | “I WILL TALK…”
Selected Public Art Works
2008
Viva Art Action Montreal | Black Market Type & Print Shop | Posters pasted around Montreal in conjunction with exhibition
2007
San Francisco Arts Commission Art on Market Street Poster Series
2006
The Steve Lambert Show | series of bi-weekly experimental public affairs radio programs on KDVS radio.
2004-07
The Anti-Advertising Agency | various projects with Packard Jennings, Josh MacPhee, Dara Greenwald, Susan Greene, Amanda Eicher, Michael Dodge, Sara Dierck, Adam Connelly, Patrick Piazza, and the San Francisco Print Collective
2005
Emma Goldman Institute for Anarchist Studies
2004
Clarion Alley Mural Project San Francisco, CA | “THERE WILL ALWAYS BE MORE OF US.”
2003
Phantom Galleries Installation San Jose, CA | with Tucker Nichols | “I JUST WOKE UP FROM THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DREAM”
Stencil Mural SF, CA | with Scott Williams and others | in conjunction with Art of Negative Spaces show
2002
The L7 Project, SF CA | “Chase Stevenson School of Urban Robotics”
Congress Hotel, Tucson AZ | “3 Birds”
Alabama St., San Francisco, CA | “I CAN’T RELAX”
2001
Van Ness St./Market St., San Francisco, CA | “I’M AFRAID”
Bush St., San Francisco, CA | “Puppet St. Renaming Project”
Harrison St., San Francisco, CA | “ADVERTISEMENT”
1998
KZSU 90.1 FM Radio, Stanford CA | “Rev. Ray Ho Action Hour”
Curatorial Projects
2006-
WhyTheyHate.US | Online
1999-
The Budget Gallery | San Francisco and Los Angeles
2004
Mission 17, SF CA | “Budget Gallery Showcase” (with Clark Buckner)
San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA | “Why Wait? Expatriate!” | with Alison Bing
2003
Adeline Kent Award | “Gail Wight: The Evolution of Disarticulation” | Walter McBean Gallery
Stencils: The Art of Negative Spaces | with StencilArchive.Org
SFAI Annual Spring Show | Juror
Learning to Love You More with Aragon High School | Assignment #5 | San Mateo City Hall
2001
San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA | “Prime Time” Lecture Series for SFAI Artists Committee
Bibliography
2008
Steve Lambert, “The Great Internet Wiki Marathon” New York Foundation for the Arts Magazine, May 2008
Hamilton Nolan “Offers You Can’t Refuse: Get Paid to Quit the Advertising Industry!” Gawker.com, April 17 2008
Hamilton Nolan “The Anti-Advertising Agency Fights the Good Fight: With Stickers!” Gawker.com, April 10, 2008
“Dialog Over Public Advertising Gets Sticky” National Public Radio, April 2008
Lamar Clarkson “WikiBusiness” ArtNews, April 2008
“Art [on] Market Street: Wish You Were Here: Postcards from Our Awesome Future!” SPUR Urbanist Magazine, March 2008
“Ya no solo se roba, también se dejan sorpresas en las estanterías” La Voz de Galacia (Spain), January 31, 2008
Roberta Fallon “Come Play With Me” Philadelphia Weekly, January 23rd, 2008
Roberta Fallon “There is more than one way” fallonandrosof.blogspot.com, January 17, 2008
Eliran Levy Ma’ariv Weekend (Israel), p10,11 Jan 4, 2008
2007
Keri Smith “The Guerilla Art Kit,” Princeton Architectural Press
Michael Leaverton “World of Tomorrow” SF Weekly, Arts and Entertainment, November 14, 2007
Elizabeth Haines ““Windows and Wallpapering: Questions about Art, Technology and Poetic Interference” ModArt Magazine, October 2007
Merit Karise “Interview with Steve Lambert” Estonian Ekspress (Estonia), August 30, 2007
Stefano Caldana “Llega el plugin art para Firefox El País, CiberPaís9, July 9, 2007
CBC News “Banner ads spur positive responses, study finds” CBC News Online, May 15, 2007
Andrew Adam Newman “Web Fight: Blocking Ads and Adding Art” New York Times, C8, May 14, 2007
Sophie-Helene LeBeuf “Cachez cette publicité que je ne saurais voir” Radio-Canada.ca, May 15, 2007
Florencia Werchowsky “La protesta contra la polución publicitaria Clarîn (Argentina), Mar 18, 2007
Hamilton Nolan “AAA challenges ‘normalized’ advertising” PR WEEK, Mar 5, 2007
David E. Williams, “Boston stunt creates PR buzz saw instead of buzz” CNN.com, Feb 2, 2007
Kai-Ming Cha, “Arts and Answers” WKCR, February 5, 2007
Rocketboom.com, “Field Report” (Light Criticism), Jan 25, 2007
2006
Darren Murph, “Simmer Down Sprinter: Compete to Relax” Engadget.com, July 27, 2006
Cory Doctorow, “Biofeedback Game Where You Compete to Relax” BoingBoing.net, July 21, 2006
Ivan Fulco, “Simmer Down Sprinters: Videogiocare con lo stress” La Stampa (Italy), Aug 24, 2006
Petra Bibeau, “Packard Jennings and Felipe Dulzaides” Shotgun Review, May 18, 2006
Kenneth Baker, “Jennings and Dulzaides at Clark” San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, 2006
Jess Greenwood, “The Sky’s Off Limits” The Reel Magazine, Pg38, October 2004, Issue12, London, England
Clark Buckner, Spoonful of Sugar Review, ARTweek
Neighborhood Public Radio | “The Visible Hand” Sepetmeber 29, 2004
Wooster Collective Website “Profile: Steve Lambert”, August 2, 2004
Josh MacPhee, “Stencil Pirates” Soft Skull Press
2003
Emily Landes, “Talking Back Public Space One Art Show at a Time” The Wave Magazine, Pg35, Jun 4, 2003, v3 i11
Jesse Hamlin, “The Scene: Art by the People for the People” San Francisco Chronicle, PgD2, May 9, 2003
Aurelia d’Andrea, “Vigilante: A Veteran Street Artist Leaves his Mark for Political Change” (with SF Print Collective), [X]Press Magazine, Pg10, April 2003
Leah Barvels, “Bringing and Artistic Point of View to High School” San Mateo Daily Journal, Pg8, April 5-6, v3 i194
San Mateo Daily Journal | “Assignment #5″
Kitchen Sink Magazine | “The New Art Scene: Art Found Alive and Well and Living in the Bay Area”
2001
Manny Hyde, “Puppet Street Project” Punk Planet Magazine, Pg 58-60, May/June 2001, i43
Bay Area and National TV News | Coverage for Puppet Street Project
Teaching and Lectures
2008
The New Museum | Rhizome Commission presentation
Museum of Modern Art | Graffiti Research Lab Screening and Panel Discussion with James Powderly and Evan Roth
Gelf Magazine Presents | Non-Motivational Speaker Series with Alan Abel and Ron English
California College of the Arts | Urban Visions Panel with Packard Jennings, Peter Albert, John Peterson, Tom Radulovich, and Seleta Reynolds
Hunter College Film and Media Department, InterMedia Arts Program | Culture Jamming
Parsons/The New School for Design | Adjunct Lecturer | Foundations Laboratory
2007
UC Santa Barbara | Guest Artist Lecture
Maker Faire Bay Area. San Mateo County Fairgrounds | Lecture with James Powderly
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts‘ State of the Arts Conference | D I Y = > D I T : New Social Practices & Digital Distribution with James Powderly of the Graffiti Research Lab, Sal Randolph, Josh Greene, and Larisa Mann.
Free University Program at Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago IL | VERSION>07 THE INSURECTION INTERNATIONALE
Mess Hall, Chicago IL | Eyebeam Roadshow
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona | Now: Meetings in the Present Continuous | Panel discussion with Gemma Galdon, Richard Sennett, and Pierre Humeau
Parsons/The New School for Design | Adjunct Lecturer | Foundations Laboratory
City University of New York - College of Staten Island | Adjunct Lecturer | History of advertising and practice of social marketing
Eyebeam | Shopdropping Workshop Series
2006
Mission Cultural Center | “Can You Buy Beauty?” | Panel Discussion for Dancer’s Group in conjunction with Jo Kreiter’s “The Live Billboard Project”
Stanford University | Guest Lecture in Advertising and Rhetoric course
Version Festival 06 | Free University Program | Lecture
San Francisco Art Institute Adult Community Education | Instructor | Intro to Black and White Photography
San Francisco Art Institute Adult Community Education | Instructor | Color Photography
San Francisco Art Institute Adult Community Education | Instructor | Video: Art and Pop Media
University of California at Davis | Associate Instructor | course: Drawing 2
University of California at Davis | Teaching Assistant | course: Documentary Video
University of California at Davis | Guest Lecture in Art History: Curatorial Practices course
2005
University of California at Davis | Associate Instructor | course: Drawing 1
University of California at Davis | Teaching Assistant | course: Introduction to Sonic Arts
University of California at Davis | Teaching Assistant | course: Color Photography
2004
University of California at Davis | Teaching Assistant | course: Interdiciplinarity
University of California at Davis | Teaching Assistant | course: Documentary Video
University of California at Davis | Teaching Assistant | course: Color
University of California at Davis | Guest Lecture in Art History: Curatorial Practices course
University of California at Davis | Guest Lecture in Communications: Media and Health course
Stanford University | Guest Lecture in Art Studio: Social Sculpture course
San Francisco Art Institute | Salon Series | “Outside the Ordinary: Making your Way in the Arts: Augmentation”
2003-04
Aragon High School San Mateo, CA I Classroom Instructor, 3d Art
2003
Marin JCC Summer Youth Program I Art Specialist Instructor
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | Panelist | 2003 Make Art Your Business Workshop Series
Leadership High School SF CA | Art and Political Expression Workshop
Stanford University | Stencil Making Workshop
San Francisco Art Institute | Guest Speaker
2002-03
Artist-in-Residence | Aragon High School | San Mateo CA (Grant from California Arts Council)
1995-98
Chief Announcer, Production Director, Music Director | KZSU Stanford Radio | Stanford CA
Affiliations
2008-
Contributor | Joey Skaggs’ Pranks.com
2005-
Contributor | Stay Free! Daily
2004
Founder/”CEO” | the Anti-Advertising Agency
2003-04
Co-Chair | San Francisco Art Institute Artists Committee
2000-02
Member | San Francisco Art Institute Artists Committee
1999-
Founder/Co-Director | The Budget Gallery
Et Cetera
2004
Electric Bass | Lord Loves A Working Man | 9 piece soul band
2001-02
Upright bass with honky-tonk/western swing band | Johnny Dilks and his Visitacion Valley Boys
2001
Electric Bass | Harold Ray Live in Concert | Founding member
1999
Electric bass with 11 piece Northern Soul band | the InCiters
