Steven Harwick is a cross-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, NY.
Harwick’s practice utilizes photography, video, installation, sculpture, and collage to highlight identity, obsession, subversions, and perversions. His self-published zine, Bound Leather, demonstrates the central focus of his project work: to pull from cultural history and traditional fetish imagery while simultaneously subverting those standards by showcasing an array of people systematically excluded from the long-established canon.
Harwick has exhibited domestically and internationally, and self-published his first monograph, By the Skin of My Teeth. He holds a BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute.
stevenharwick@gmail.com
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Steven Harwick
b. 1991
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/
2024 Flaming Star | Satellite Art Show | New York, NY
2023 By the Skin of My Teeth | CULTUREEDIT | Los Angeles, CA
Sniffing Strangers' Gloves | XPIZZA curated by Samantha Sutcliffe | New York, NY
2021 SKiNFLiCK | URSA | Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/
2024 NYC Art Fair | Satellite Art Show | Brooklyn, NY
Queer Conscience | The Image Flow | San Anselmo, CA
2021 In Excess | Creamcake 3hd Festival: Power Play | Berlin, Germany
Hollywood Forever | Other Subjects | Brooklyn, NY
2020 Works From Home | ARTpartmentNYC | Brooklyn, NY
2019 Half Life | 182 Avenue C | NY, NY
2018 Queer Zines / Queer Art | LGBTQ Center | NY, NY
2017 Visible Scene | Practice Gallery | NY, NY
Just Add Water | Chinatown Soup | NY, NY
Slide Show | 169 Richardson St. | Brooklyn, NY
2016 Just Add Water | The Living Gallery | Brooklyn, NY
PUBLICATIONS/
By the Skin of My Teeth | 2022
Bound Leather | Volumes 1 - 18 | 2017-present
PUBLISHING EVENTS/
2023 Queer Art Mart | WORTHLESSSTUDIOS | Brooklyn, NY
NY Queer Zine Fair | LGBTQ Center | New York, NY
2022 Paris Ass Book Fair | Lafayette Anticipations | Paris, France
NY Queer Zine Fair | Brooklyn Public Library | Brooklyn, NY
2021 Bushwig | Knockdown Center | Queens, NY
2020 Hester Street Fair | Fundraiser for Marsha P. Johnson Institute | Brooklyn, NY
2019 Goth Shop | Old Truman Brewery | London, UK
Paris Ass Book Fair | Palais de Tokyo | Paris, France
NY Queer Zine Fair | Brooklyn Public Library | Brooklyn, NY
Hester Street Fair | World Pride Market | New York, NY
Independent Art Book Fair | Industria | Brooklyn, NY
Bushwig | Knockdown Center | Queens, NY
2018 Paris Ass Book Fair | Palais de Tokyo | Paris, France
Bloodmoney | Lucas Lucas | Brooklyn, NY
NY Queer Zine Fair | LGBTQ Center | New York, NY
Cultural Traffic | That That Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
Independent Art Book Fair | 307 Kent Ave. | Brooklyn, NY
Bushwig | Knockdown Center | Queens, NY
It's Called Fashion Flea | Museum of Sex | New York, NY
2017 NY Queer Zine Fair | LGBTQ Center | New York, NY
COLLECTIONS/
Museum of Sex | New York, NY
Schwules Museum | Berlin, Germany
Tom of Finland Foundation | Los Angeles, CA
Leather Archives & Museum | Chicago, IL
UK Leather & Fetish Archive at Bishopsgate Institute | London, UK
National Museum of American History | Washington, D.C.
SCREENINGS/
2023 Motel Dream | Sightlines curated by Natasha Gornik | The Slipper Room | NY, NY
2022 RAWHiDE | Fotografiska | NY, NY
RAWHiDE | Curated by Killer Dentist | Spectacle Theater | Brooklyn, NY
2020 Here's Christeene | Ghost: The Shining Edition | VIDEODROOM | Ghent, Belgium
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS/
2023 Spank U, Next: A Fetish & BDSM Podcast | Ep. 32: Leather fetishes
2022 By the Skin of My Teeth book release & artist talk | Fotografiska | NY, NY
2020 URSA | "SKiNFLiCK: Interview with Kembra Pfahler & Christeene"
2017 Recon | Interview and BTS shoot
AWARDS/
2023 Analog Sparks | Silver in Human/Intimacy for "Bound Leather"
London International Creative Competition | Shortlist in Art Book
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris | Bronze in Book/Monograph
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris | Honorable Mention in Portraiture/Culture