Claudia O'Steen

Claudia O’Steen is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines sculpture, video, installation, writing, & performance. Through her research-based practice, she examines navigation, exploration, perception, & failure. She creates languages to convey distance, scale, & direction, giving evidence to a process that has taken place & creates landscapes supplemented by scientific curiosity & human memory.

O’Steen is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Winthrop University. She received a BFA from Watkins College of Art & an MFA in Digital+Media at Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited both nationally & internationally at venues such as The Russian State Arctic and Antarctic Museum, Maajaam Estonia, apexart, Flux Factory, Ohio State University, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, & Atlanta Contemporary amongst others, & has been awarded residencies across the globe at Rabbit Island, Hambidge Center, Wassaic Project, Montalvo, The Arctic Circle, & The National Centre for Contemporary Art St. Petersburg, Russia.