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Claudia O'Steen

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Biography

Through her research-based practice, Claudia Steen examines navigation, exploration, perception, and the experience of being lost. She creates landscapes supplemented by scientific curiosity and human memory and invents languages to convey distance, scale, and direction, giving evidence to a process that has taken place.


O’Steen has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as apexart, Flux Factory, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, University of New Brunswick, Salamanca Arts Centre, and the Russian State Arctic Museum. She has been awarded residencies at The Wassaic Project, Montalvo Arts Center, The Arctic Circle, NCCA Saint-Petersburg, Hambidge Center and Haystack among others.


Claudia received a BFA from Watkins College of Art, Design & Film and an MFA in Digital + Media at Rhode Island School of Design. She currently resides in South Carolina and is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Winthrop University.