Image Faculty Title Instructor and Post-Graduate Research Fellow Education MFA with Distinction, University of Oxford BA, University of Texas Email Address srowell@mcad.edu Website steverowell.com Steve Rowell is an artist who works with photography, moving image, sound, installation, maps, and spatial concepts. His practice investigates terrains of perception, nonhuman intelligence, ecologies, and technology, exploring the landscape as a site of political imagination. Steve contextualizes the morphology of the built environment with the surrounding medium of Nature, appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and archaeologist. Awards and honors that Steve has earned include the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship; grants from Creative Capital and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; artist residencies at the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik and Fogo Island Arts; as well as fellowships at the Villa Aurora Berlin, University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Newcastle University. He holds an MFA with Distinction from the University of Oxford and a BA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. News 04 August 2024Steve Rowell Among 2024 McKnight Fellowship Recipients for Media Artists 30 July 2024MCAD Faculty and Students' Recent Presentation at the 2024 Arctic Congress in Norway 02 May 2024Through Intersection of Art and Science, Minneapolis College of Art and Design Performs Climate Change Research for U.S. Department of Defense View all news