Discipline: Visual Art

Haim Steinbach

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
More: www.haimsteinbach.net
Haim Steinbach explores the psychological, aesthetic, cultural, and ritualistic aspects of collecting and arranging already existing objects. His work engages the concept of “display” as a form that foregrounds objects, raising consciousness of the play of presentation. Steinbach selects and arranges objects – which range from the natural to the ordinary, the artistic to the ethnographic – thereby emphasizing their identities, inherent meanings and associations. An important influence in the growth of post-modern artistic dialogue, Steinbach’s work has radically redefined the status of the object in art. Steinbach was born in Israel and has lived in the U.S. since 1957. He received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1968, followed by an M.F.A. from Yale University. Throughout his career, Steinbach has exhibited his work consistently at major museums worldwide. The artist’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Tate Modern in London, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

Studios

Adams

Haim Steinbach worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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