Christopher Steadman was born in England and received his MFA from Central St. Martin's in London and a MA in Photography from New York University and the International Centre of Photography in New York City. He works in a range of genres including video, sound, photography, text and installation.
His multi-media installations have been exhibited widely, including venues throughout Europe, America and the Russian Federation.
In July 2017, Steadman's work will be featured as part of a retrospective exhibition presenting all the award winning artists who have participated in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art's annual International Video Art Exhibition. Recently, Steadman presented new work at MoCA Taipei (the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei), Taiwan. During the Summer, his work was shown in an International Video Art Exhibition at the Museum of Moscow, July to August. His recent exhibitions have included Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Autocenter, Berlin; St. Petersburg Center of Film and Television; National Centre for Contemporary Art, Kirov; Berliner Liste Art Fair; Pulse Art Miami; The INDEX Gallery, U.K.; Berlin's Transartfest Art Biennial; Seattle's Center on Contemporary Art's (CoCA) curated by Gary Hill; Aqua Art Miami; International Center of Media Culture, Krasnoyarsk; , and Moscow's International Film Festival. Steadman has received numerous awards and grants, including a British Academy Arts and Humanities Research Bursary and funding from the Austrian Federal Chancellery, as well as fellowships from many international artists' residencies, including The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and Chateau La Napoule.
Steadman's subject matter is focused on the centrality of memory, and the articulation of memory as a mutating system functioning within a set of larger cultural and environmental systems. The exploration of subjects' claims for solitude and social belonging are themes Steadman expresses across a range of practices, all of these works are structurally concerned with time, space, and duration.
It is within the context of these elements that the psyche of the solitary individual must make sense of both their own and others' existence. Steadman's interest in the notion of chance and metamorphoses brought about by the weight of memory, allows the artist to communicate a tension between the ephemeral fluidity of the moving images and the physicality of the monitors, heightening a sense of weight by the fixed configuration of the installation.