EDUCATION
1986 MFA, University of Texas, Austin
1981 BFA, University of North Texas, Denton
SELECTED SHOWS
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
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
Art Bar, Dallas, Texas, An American Birthday Salute
Hickory Street Annex, Dallas, Texas, Pivotal Signals, Kevin Curry, Curator
Taller San Calacas Studio Gallery, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, Texas,
Precious and Grace, curator Hills Snyder
1600 Smith, Houston, Texas, A Texas Celebration, Neil Prinz, juror
Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Lost and Found
1989 Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Small Works
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, The TV Show
Upper West Pavilion Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, Texas, It’s All About
Time
Trans Avant-Garde, Austin, Texas, New Work
Zanzibar, Dallas, Texas, Zanzibar Installation
1988 Alternate Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Distinctive Vision
Galleria Sin Fronteras, Austin, Texas, Group Exhibition
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Arlington, Texas, New American Talent 1988, juror
Richard Armstrong
Studio Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas, Objective Response
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
Diverse Works, Houston, Texas, Found: Works by Texas artists who work with found
materials
The College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Texas A&M University,
College Station, Texas, Visual Articulations 1987, juror Susan Freudenheim
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
Transco Tower, Houston, Texas, The Sculpture Symposium 1986
Marvin Seline Gallery, Austin, Texas, Laguna Gloria Art School Faculty Exhibition
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
Patrick Gallery, Austin, Texas, Artists of the Western Stairstep, curator Hills
Snyder
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, Intersections: Artists’ View
of the City
1985 Hall of Walls Gallery, Austin, Texas, New Work (one personexhibition)
Designer Space, Austin, Texas, Austin Visual Arts Association Citation Exhibition,
juror Tony Moore
500 X Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Personal Affects
Archer M. Huntington Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, The University
of Texas Annual Student Exhibition
Austin, Texas, Tasting the Blaze: an intimate spectacle, a collaboration with
Deborah Hay, Pauline Oliveros, and Tina Girouard
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
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 1987
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
“1985 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