EDUCATION

2012 DMA, The University of Texas at Austin - Harrington Scholar
2005 Fulbright Scholar, Musikhochshule Trossingen, Germany
2004 MM, Rice University
2002 BM, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
BA Applied Mathematics, Oberlin College

EXPERIENCE

Steve Parker is an artist that works with salvaged musical instruments, amateur choirs, marching bands, urban bat colonies, flocks of grackles, and pedicab fleets to investigate systems of control, interspecies behavior, and forgotten histories. He is the recipient of the Rome Prize, the Tito’s Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Pollock-Krasner Award, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a

2023 McKnight Visiting Composer with the American Composers Forum. Parker’s projects include elaborate civic rituals for humans, animals, and machines; listening sculptures modeled after obsolete surveillance tools; and cathartic transportation symphonies for operators of cars, pedicabs, and bicycles. Exhibition and performance highlights include the American Academy in Rome (Italy), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Arkansas), CUE Art Foundation (New York), the Fusebox Festival (Texas), Gwangju Media Art Festival (Korea), the Lincoln Center Festival, Los Angeles

Philharmonic inSIGHT, the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), MASS MoCA (Massachusetts), the McNay Art Museum (Texas), Rich Mix (London), SXSW, and Tanglewood (Massachusetts). As a soloist and as an artist of NYC-based "new music dream team" Ensemble Signal, he has premiered 200+ new works. Parker’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Colossal, and Design Milk, among others. He is Executive Director of Collide Arts, curator of SoundSpace at the Blanton, and faculty member at UTSA. He holds degrees in Math and Music from Oberlin, Rice, and UT Austin.

AWARDS

2023 Pollock-Krasner Award
         McKnight Foundation Visiting Composer Fellowship
         Dallas Museum of Art: Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Award
         National Endowment for the Arts
2022 National Endowment for the Arts
         Music Academy: Alumni Enterprise Award
         REA Charitable Trust
2021 Rome Prize
         Mid America Arts Alliance Artistic Innovations
         REA Charitable Trust
2020 Ashurst Art Prize, London, United Kingdom
         National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works
         New Music USA
         Foundation for Contemporary Arts
         Mid America Arts Alliance Artistic Innovations
2019 National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works
         CUE Art Foundation Open Call Winner
         Mid America Arts Alliance Artistic Innovations
2018 Tito’s Prize
         New Music USA
         Amphion Foundation
2017 National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works
         Mid America Arts Alliance Artistic Innovations
2016 Copland Foundation
2015 New Music USA
2014 ArtPlace: Drawing Lines
         Puffin Foundation
2013 ArtPlace: Social Practice Lab
2009 Harrington Scholar
2005 Fulbright Scholar

EXHIBITIONS

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES
2023 Weird Winter, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
         Sonic Meditation for Solo Performer, Fusebox Festival / Co-Lab Projects, Austin, Texas
         FIGHT SONG, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
         Solo Meditation, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas
2022 Creative Director, Hermés of Paris, Austin, Texas
         Foreign Body, Ivester Contemporary, Austin, Texas
         SOUND TREATMENT, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas
         Foghorn Elegy, Laguna Gloria, The Contemporary Austin, Texas
2021 Futurist Listening, Rich Mix, London, United Kingdom
         Performative Listening, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
2020 Futurist Listening, CUE Art Foundation, New York
         Day is Done, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
2019 War Tuba Recital, Presa House, San Antonio, Texas
2018 That Dark Electric, University of Chicago Presents, Chicago, Illinois
         Sound Parade, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
         War Tuba Recital, Big Medium, Austin, Texas
2017 TRAFFIC JAM, Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival, San Antonio, Texas
2016 TRAFFIC JAM, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida
2015 BAT // MAN, Fusebox Festival, Austin, Texas
2014 Theatricals, Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York
         Way of Timbre, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

GROUP EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES
2022 It’s Not Fair, Fusebox Festival, Austin, Texas
         CraftTexas 2022, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas
2021 Aluminum Forest, Villa Aurelia, Rome, Italy
         Spazi Aperti, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy
         Art Prize, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
         Texas Biennial, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
2020 A Song of Coexistence, Gwangju Media Art Festival, Korea
         Ashurst Prize Group Show, Ashurst Gallery, London, England
2019 Outta Space, Sculpture Month Houston, Houston, Texas
         Of Texas, Lease Agreement, Lubbock, Texas
         SXSW UNESCO Media Arts Exhibition, Austin, Texas
         Group Hug 8, Big Medium, Austin, Texas
         Group Hug 8, Mantle Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
         Dimension Gallery Sculpture Garden, Dimension Gallery, Austin, Texas
         War Tubas, Thinkery Children’s Museum, Austin, Texas
         Fortlandia, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas
         Brasspocolypse, New Media and Art Summit, Austin, Texas
2018 Secret Radio, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
         Away Message, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, Texas
2017 Naked Lunch, Lincoln Center Festival, New York
         Correspondence Series #4, Fusebox, Angers, France
         Bridge Music, Crystal Bridges of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
         Bread & Butter: Milk, ICOSA Gallery, Austin, TX
         Crit Group, grayDUCK, Austin, Texas
2016 Pierre Boulez Memorial, KKL Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
         Shelter, Disney Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic INsight Festival
         Red Sliders, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
2015 SoundAtlas, Drawing Lines, Austin, Texas
         Rainbow’s End, New Media and Art Summit, Austin, Texas
         Season of Innocence, Ballet Austin, Austin, Texas
2014 Really Good Elevator Music, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
         Recycled Sounds, Fusebox Festival, Austin, Texas
         folk re-imagined, SXSW, Austin, Texas
         Music for Wilderness Lake, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas
2013 Music on Pearl, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
         Bells and Bees, New Spaces New Formats Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
         Everyone But Jones, The Stone, New York
         Chimpanzees, Lucerne Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland
         Inuksuit, The Contemporary Austin - Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas
         June in Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
         Tre Pezzi, Southsite, Hong Kong
         folk re-imagined, Brass in the Ruins, Fortheim, Germany
2012 It Happens Like This, Guggenheim Museum, New York
         Third Practice Festival, Richmond, Virginia
         Keren, Perspectives: Xenakis Festival, Austin, Texas
         broken bones, SEAMUS Electronic Music Conference, Appleton, Wisconsin
         ...zwei Gefule, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York
         Movement and Music, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
         folk re-imagined, Basel Musikerwohnhaus, Basel, Switzerland
         folk re-imagined, Stuttgart Musikhochshule, Stuttgart, Germany
2011 The Language and Sound Project, Futureplaces, Porto, Portugal
         Terrain, Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts
         Trance, Le Poisson Rouge, New York
         BASTA!, Fast Forward Austin, Austin, Texas
         Ground Round, Jennifer Norback Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
         Ground Round, University of Brasilia, Brazil
2010 ...zwei Gefule, EMPAC - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
         Ground Round, LaTex Festival for Experimental Music and Sound Art, New Orleans
         Sound and Language Project, CentralTrak Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2009 Trance, Bang on a Can Marathon, New York
         Requiem, Le Poisson Rouge, New York
2008 Sound and Language Project, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
         Sound and Language Project, KKL / Lucerne Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland
         Sound Construction, Bowerbird, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007 Sound and Language Project,KKL / Lucerne Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland
         Sound and Language Project, Bowerbird, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
         Sound and Language Project, The Red Room, Baltimore, Maryland
2006 MEN, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, Illinois
         Tre Pezzi, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois
         Kernel Panic, Roulette, New York
         Spoletude, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina
2005 Sequenza V, BACKFABRIK, Berlin, Germany
         Sequenza V, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina