Alan Steele

Born: Caracas, Venezuela
Upbringing: West Indies and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Current Residence and Studio: New York City

Education

MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
BFA, School of Visual Art, New York, NY

Select Solo Exhibitions

2020 Alan Steele: Unconditionally Constitutional, Westwood Gallery, New York, NY — link
2017 The Impulse for Keeping A Record, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MA
2015 Symmetry and Stillness, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MA
2005 Saint Peter's Church, New York, NY
2005 Works on Papercurated by Michelle Tillou, Project GRAD, New York, NY
1995 Architectural Installation, Frank Gabriel, New York, NY
1994 Architectural Installation, Frank Gabriel, New York, NY
1993 Architectural Installation, Frank Gabriel, New York, NY
1992 Architectural Installation, Frank Gabriel, New York, NY
1988 Alan Steele, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

Select Group Exhibitions

2025 Westwood Gallery NYC: 30 Years, Westwood Gallery, New York, NY, 6 Sep - 25 Oct — link
2024 Diary of Time, Westwood Gallery, New York, NY, 18 Jan - 9 Mar — link
2019 Explorations in Process Will Insley, Nobuho Nagasawa, Alan Steele and Roger Welch, Westwood Gallery, New York, NY — link
2019 Artists on the Bowery Part 1: Carmen Cicero // Alan Steele, Westwood Gallery, New York, NY — link
2019 Infinite Rhizome, Endless Plateaus of Interconnectivity curated by Priska Juschka, Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Carte Blanche, Studio Gallery, Washington DC
2018 Minimal Effect, Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Past as Prologue, or The Effect of Modernism on Contemporary Art, Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Tashmoo Waterworks Building, Martha’s Vineyard Midsummer Fine Art Fair, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2016 The Impulse of Keeping a Record, Brian Dupont and Alan Steele, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MA
2016 Traces of Minimalism, Heliumcowboy Artspace, Hamburg, Germany
2016 Pulse New York, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MA
2015 Context Art Miami, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MA
2015 Art Miami New York, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MA
2014 Silicon Valley Art Fair California, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MA
2014 Pulse New York, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MA
2014 Laroche Joncas, Montreal, Canada
2014 Pop Up Paris, Galerie du Haut Pavee, Paris, France
2014 Group Exhibition, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MA
2013 Pulse New York, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MA
2013 Peanut Underground Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Kinz Tillou Fine Art, New York, NY
2012 Summer Group Exhibition, QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2012 Indian Summer, Kinz Tillou Fine Art, New York, NY
2010 Dorian Grey Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Florence Biennale, December, International Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy
2001 From Whistler to Warhol, Century of American Printmaking, Boxed In, Plane, Frame, Surface, Jane Voorhees Zimerli Art Museum, Rutgers, NJ
1999 Nabisco Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ
1998 Tenri Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Jorgensen Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Jorgensen Gallery, New York, NY
1995 T.A.G. Space, New York, NY
1995 Dane, Seinkman, Fischer, Steele, Lesser, Fashion Architecture Culture Technology, Arttax Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Func-a-tech-ture: Woodman, Berg, Holzphel, Fischer, Steele, Griffin, Arttax Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Surface Printing In The 1980s: Lithography Screenprints and Monotypes, Rutgers Archives, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, NJ
1987 Ten Pack in collaboration with Mission Gallery, A. L. G. O. Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Rigor curated by Stephen Westfall, John Good Gallery, New York, NY
1987 White Columns, New York, NY
1986 Admired Works curated by John Weber (Allen, Deutsch, Dona, Ewing, Fischer, Fischer, Halley, Keister, Kirili, Koons, Kruger, Steele), John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Abstraction, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Inaugural exhibition curated by Will Insley, Artist Space, New York, NY
1984 Richard Artschwager, Daniel Christian, John Chamberlain, Sol Lewitt, Allan McCollum, Cleas Oldenburg, Alan Steele, Marybeth Welch, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Facchetti Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Third Annual Contemporary Reflections, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1973 Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
1971 Woods Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1969 Avanti Gallery, New York, NY
1969 School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY

Catalogues, Articles and Reviews

Steele, A. (2021). Alan Steele: Unconditionally Constitutional [Exhibition catalogue]. Westwood Gallery.
Goodman, J. (2018, September). Collective Palimpsests at Lichtundfire. Tussle Magazine — pdf
The Washington Post. (2017, January 5).
Steele, A. (2015). Alan Steele [Exhibition catalogue]. Adah Rose Gallery.
Jenkins, M. (2014, October 13). Collaged drawings that zig and zag at Adah Rose. The Washington Post. — pdf
WILD. (2014, September 20).
Steele, A. (2004, Autumn). Emblems of Power. The Catalogue of Antiques & Fine Art.
Steele, A. (2003, October-November). Emblems of Power. Total Business.
Steele, A. (2003, June-July). The Right Formula For A Successful Collection. Total Business.
Various Artists. (1997). Reservoir Music RSR CD 148 [Audio recording].
Richard, B. (1993, July 22). Art A New York, Un Combat Quotidien, Cooperation #29, Switzerland.
Richard, B. (1993, May 29). Reperes: Arts Plastique A New York: Une Toute Autre Realite. Le Democrat, Switzerland.
Shaftland, J. (1993). Act And Necessity.
Wathen, M. (1992, August). At Auction Are Bad Times Good For Collectors? Physicians Vol 4 #8
Roberts, C. (1987). Ten Pack A.L.G.O. Gallery, 108 An East Village Review #7, 1987
Meyer J. (1987) Rigor, John Good Gallery, 108 An East Village Review #7, 1987
Insley, W. (1984, September) Inaugural exhibition essay. Artist Space, New York.

Collections

Adah Rose Bitterbaum, MA
Ai Kato, New York, NY
Arman, New York, NY
Bell Atlantic, Washington D. C.
Carlo Bella, New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg, New York, NY
Claudio Roditi, NJ
Cy Newhouse, New York, NY
Jared Holstein, CA
Jerome Stern, New York, NY
John Weber, New York, NY
Mark Eglinton, New York, NY
Michelle Tillou, New York, NY
Tom Wessellmann, New York, NY
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Werner Kramarsky, New York, NY
Will Insley, New York, NY
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ