Steve Gurysh

b. Winston-Salem, NC USA 1984

Steve Gurysh is an artist working in sculpture, time-based media, and art in the public realm. Recognized by a fluid approach to process and material, his work responds to collective and beyond-human ways of understanding place, compressing expansive logics into potent objects containing wild materialities, dislocated subjects, digital to physical translations, social contracts, and speculative relationships to time and the scale of planetary phenomena. His projects are often developed in collaboration with scientists, municipal workers, other artists, craftspeople, communities, and non-human participants.

Recent projects include the transformation of uranium ore into a radioactive photographic print, the meticulous reproduction of graffitied river rocks along a glacial river, and the recreation of a column from an astronomical observatory carved into the volume of a 200-year-old wind fallen oak tree.

He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including residencies at Wassaic Project, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the WATERSHED+ Dynamic Environment Lab and a fellowship at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. He has exhibited works at Contemporary Calgary, Alberta, Canada; the Knockdown Center, Queens, New York; W139, Amsterdam; El Museo de la Ciudad, Quer‌‌étaro, Mexico; La Soci‌ét‌é des Arts Technologiques, Montréal; The Engine Room, Wellington, New Zealand; and in the center of the Allegheny River.

Gurysh recieved his MFA from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Lawrence, KS where he is an Associate Professor of Sculpture in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas.

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