Steven Lemke 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 Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. Recent residencies include the 2022 Steven Holl Foundation/T-Space Architecture Fellowship in New York, the 2023 Saint Croix Watershed Research Station Residency in Marine-on-Saint-Croix, Minnesota, and the 2024 Anderson Center at Tower View/Stadt Salzburg Residency in Austria.
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 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 socialist housing and identity in partnership with the Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava in the former Czechoslovakia.
Lemke currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Saint Joseph and Collegeville, Minnesota.