Steven Lemke (he/him/his) uses sculpture, installation art, and digital fabrication technology to speak to issues of architectural production, land use, and community.
Lemke 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 McKnight Foundation, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA). In 2016, he oversaw the Saint John’s University-Jerome Foundation Environmental Artist Fellowship, a residency exchange in partnership with the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.
He 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, the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Honorable Mention for Excellence in Teaching. He is the recipient of a 2019-2020 U.S. Fulbright Research Fellowship in Sculpture, examining socialist housing and identity in the former Czechoslovakia.
Lemke currently serves as Environmental Artist-in-Residence at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Saint Joseph and Collegeville, Minnesota.