STEVE WIMAN
EDUCATION
1986 MFA, University of Texas, Austin
1981 BFA, University of North Texas, Denton
SELECTED SHOWS
2009 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas,
Chill
2008 Curiosities, Dallas, Texas, Steve Wiman: Pairs
2007 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Hillevi Baar & Steve Wiman
2007 Double J Ranch, Mineral Wells, Texas, Bits and Pieces
2007 Fort Worth Community Center, Fort Worth, Texas, Found Objects: Collections
2007 Scanlan Gallery at St. Stephens School, Austin, Texas, Wordplay
2006 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Heat
2006 The People’s Gallery, Austin City Hall, Texas, 2006 Exhibit
2005 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Object
2005 Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, Color/Pattern/Grid: Selections from
the Austin Museum of Art & Austin Collections
2004 O² Gallery, Austin, Texas, Collected Response
2004 Big Red Sun, Austin, Texas, Balls, Orbs, Spheres, and Other Round Objects
(installation)
2005 Gallery Lombardi, Austin, Texas, Mas! Mas! Mas! Por Que? Por Que? Por Que?
A Show of Curious Collections
1991 Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin, Texas, Yet Another Chain Reaction
1990 500 Exposition Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Invites
1990 Art Bar, Dallas, Texas, An American Birthday Salute
1990 Hickory Street Annex, Dallas, Texas, Pivotal Signals, Kevin Curry, Curator
1990 Taller San Calacas Studio Gallery, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio,
Texas, Precious and Grace, curator Hills Snyder
1990 1600 Smith, Houston, Texas, A Texas Celebration, Neil Prinz, juror
1990 Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Lost and Found
1989 Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Small Works
1989 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, The TV Show
1989 Upper West Pavilion Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, Texas, It’s All
About Time
1989 Trans Avant-Garde, Austin, Texas, New Work
1989 Zanzibar, Dallas, Texas, Zanzibar Installation
1988 Alternate Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Distinctive Vision
1988 Galleria Sin Fronteras, Austin, Texas, Group Exhibition
1988 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Arlington, Texas, New American Talent 1988, juror
Richard Armstrong
1988 Studio Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas, Objective Response
1988 Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas, Dia de los Muertos
1987 Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin, Texas, The Austin Visual Arts Association
10th Anniversary Exhibition
1987 Diverse Works, Houston, Texas, Found: Works by Texas artists who work with
found materials
1987 The College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Texas A&M University,
College Station, Texas, Visual Articulations 1987, juror Susan Freudenheim
1987 Austin College, Sherman, Texas, Recent Work: Mark Monroe and Steve Wiman
1986 Archer M. Huntington Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, MFA Thesis
Exhibition
1986 Transco Tower, Houston, Texas, The Sculpture Symposium 1986
1986 Marvin Seline Gallery, Austin, Texas, Laguna Gloria Art School Faculty
Exhibition
1986 The College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Texas A&M University,
College Station, Texas, All Texas 2-D and Low Relief, juror Becky Duval Reese
1986 Patrick Gallery, Austin, Texas, Artists of the Western Stairstep, curator
Hills Snyder
1986 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, Intersections: Artists’
View of the City
1985 Hall of Walls Gallery, Austin, Texas, New Work (one personexhibition)
1985 Designer Space, Austin, Texas, Austin Visual Arts Association Citation
Exhibition, juror Tony Moore
1985 500 X Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Personal Affects
1985 Archer M. Huntington Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, The University
of Texas Annual Student Exhibition
1985 Austin, Texas, Tasting the Blaze: an intimate spectacle, a collaboration
with Deborah Hay, Pauline Oliveros, and Tina Girouard
1985 Captain Quackenbush’s Intergalactic Dessert Company and Espresso
Café, Austin, Texas, Trash and Trivia
1984 500 X Gallery, Dallas, Texas, By Special Arrangement
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2005 Finalist, Design Commission for Whole
Foods Market, Austin, Texas
2004 Art in Public Places Grant,
City of Austin, Texas, design and contract commission as lead artist for Bubble
Fountain as part of the
Spiral Garden for Town Lake Park
2003 Art in Public Places Grant,
City of Austin, Texas, for JJ Pickle Elementary School/St. John's Neighborhood
Multipurpose Center, collaboration with
Beverly Penn, Community Core Sample Project
2002 Art in Public Places Grant,
City of Austin, Texas, lead artist for Bubble Fountain as part of the Spiral
Garden for Town Lake Park, collaboration with lead artist Beverly Penn and four
other artists
2000 Art in Public Places Grant,
City of Austin, Texas, for JJ Pickle Elementary School/St. John's Neighborhood
Multipurpose Center, collaboration with
Beverly Penn, The Threshold Project
1996 Mural Project for Travis Heights
Elementary School, Austin, Texas. Collaboration with other parents.
1992 Art in Public Places Grant,
City of Austin, Texas, South Austin Senior Citizens Activities Center –
Broken Dish/Tile Mosaic Community Quilts in collaboration with Jill Bedgood,
Community Quilt
1989 Commission for Southwestern
Bell Telephone Advanced Education Center, Irving, Texas
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Brenner, Wayne Alan. “Chill,”
The Austin Chronicle, Vol. 29 No. 19. January 8, 2010.
2007 Mitchell, Charles Dee, “Report From Austin: Art By Southwest,”
Art in America, December (photograph).
2007 Dick Holland, “I Put a Spell on You,” Tribeza Magazine, July.
2006 Nikki Moore, “HEAT,” Austin Chronicle, Vol. 25 No. 45, July
7.
2006 Hillary McMahan, “Heat at d berman,” Cantanker Magazine, 19
June.
2005 Amy Prince, “Uncommon Knowledge,” Brilliant Magazine, March.
2005 Rebecca S. Cohen, “Object: d berman gallery”, Artlies Magazine,
Issue 47.
2005 …might be good, Issue # 48, July 8, “Five Artists Show "OBJECTS"
at d berman gallery”
2004 Jennifer Irsfeld, “Collect It: Obsessions. Antiques Dealer Steve
Wiman is Having a Ball Collecting Orbs,” Country Home, October.
2004 Madeline Irvine, “Marjorie Moore and Steve Wiman: Collected Responses”,
Artlies Magazine, Issue 42.
2002 Heather McKinney, “Artifacts Arranged Artistically,” Texas
Architect, March.
1995 Joel Weinstein, “Mosaics of Life,” Austin American-Statesman,
December 1.
1990 Janet Kutner, “It’s not just the art that’s hot,”
Dallas Morning News, July 19.
Marcia Goren Weser, “Canvassing Contemporary Art Month Offerings,”
San Antonio Light, July 11.
1989 Sophia Dembling, “Road Crew,” Dallas Morning News, November
18.
“Art on View,” Detour, Summer
1988 John Herndon, “Abstract Figures, Figurative Abstraction,” Duende,
June.
Mel McCombie, “All and Sundry,” Austin American-Statesman, May 12.
Janet Kutner, “Distinctive Vision III,” Dallas Morning News, August
6.
1987 Mel McCombie, “Found,” Art News, October.
Thomas L. Turk, “On Their Way,” Cultural Activities Center Exhibition
Catalog, April.
Mel McCombie, “A Passion for Bits and Pieces,” Austin American-Statesman,
April 26.
1985 Tony Moore, “AVAA 1985 Citation Exhibition,” AVAA Exhibition
Catalog, November.
AWARDS
1989 Winner, Patrick Media Group billboard
competition: “A Gift of Art;” Cash award and public billboard display
on city highways, Dallas, Texas,
for a period of one year
1986 Austin Book Award: illustrated collection of poems, Razor Wire, by Grady
Hillman
1985 Works on Campus, Sid Richardson Hall, The University of Texas, Austin;
juror Eric McCready; cash award
New American Talent Exhibition, Laguna
Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas; juror Patterson Sims; cash award
State Citation Exhibition, Arts Warehouse,
Austin, Texas; juror Jim Edwards; cash award