1. Lisa Steele was born on 1947 and is a Canadian artist, a pioneer in video art, educator, curator and co-founder of Vtape in Toronto.
13 Facts About Lisa Steele
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Lisa Steele has collaborated exclusively with her partner Kim Tomczak since the early 1980s.
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Lisa Steele was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1947 and immigrated to Canada in 1968.
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Lisa Steele's brother, James B Steele, is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist located in Philadelphia.
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An important pioneer of video art in Canada since the early 1970s, Lisa Steele has shown internationally at the Venice Biennale, the Kunsthalle Basel, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Institute of Contemporary Art, 49th Parallel Videoseries, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Long Beach Museum.
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Lisa Steele is a founding director of Vtape in Toronto, a national information and distribution service for independent video and a founding publisher and editor of FUSE Magazine.
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The Ballad of Dan Peoples is a videotape in which Lisa Steele holds a photograph of an old man while sitting upon a stool.
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Lisa Steele then narrates stories of her grandfather's rural childhood in his voice, taking on his characteristics and personality.
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In 1976, Lisa Steele employed fellow video artist Colin Campbell to create the four-part drama The Scientist Tapes, which overlays cultural anxieties about scientific change with details about their long distance desire for one another.
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Between 1974 and 1986, Lisa Steele developed character-based micro-dramas, drawing from her experiences working at the Toronto women and children's shelter Interval House.
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Since the early 1980s Lisa Steele has worked exclusively in collaboration with Kim Tomczak.
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Lisa Steele received the Long Haul Award for lifetime achievement at the Untitled Art Awards reception in Toronto, February, 2005.
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Lisa Steele's videos are in collections worldwide, including The National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ingrid Oppenheim, Concordia University, Newcastle Polytechnic, Paulo Cardazzo, the Canadian Embassy and the Akademie der Kunst.