Steven Lemke uses sculpture, installation art, and digital fabrication technology to speak to issues of land use, architectural production, and community.
His research-based social practice has received funding from the U.S. Department of State, the College Art Association (CAA), the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Central Minnesota Arts Board, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. Recent residencies include the Anderson Center at Tower View/Stadt Salzburg Residency in Austria, the Steven Holl Foundation/T-Space Architecture Fellowship in New York, and the Saint Croix Watershed Research Station Residency in Marine on Saint Croix, Minnesota.
Lemke holds an M.F.A. in Sculpture from the Department of Art, Art History and Design at the University of Notre Dame, where his scholarship and teaching have been honored through the Riley Prize in Art History and Criticism and the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Honorable Mention for Excellence in Teaching. In addition, he is the recipient of a 2019-2020 U.S. Fulbright Research Fellowship in Sculpture, where he examined the relationship between master-planned space and identity in the former Czechoslovakia.
He currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Saint Joseph and Collegeville, Minnesota.