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  • Biography
    Steve Locke, 2025. Photo: Taylor Miller
    Steve Locke, 2025. Photo: Taylor Miller

    Steve Locke (b.1963) was born in Cleveland, OH and lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY. Spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Locke’s practice critically engages with the Western canon to muse on the connections between desire, identity, and violence.

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    Locke received his MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2001. Extending his commitment to a painting practice, he began to seek alternative ways to amplify public engagement around his art, partnering with institutions, municipalities, and even the US Postal Service to reach new audiences.

    Throughout his artistic career, Locke’s work has questioned how we ascribe meaning to portraiture. Speaking about the series when you’re a boy…, which he began in 2005, Locke says that he makes “drawings and paintings that explore relationships between and among men. The exchange of looks, the privilege of looking and the wish to be seen are positions I explore to reveal the ways men respond, desire, and relate to each other.”

    Other works by Locke imbue portraiture with menace and pain. #Killers (2017–present) presents viewers with skillfully rendered portraits of men and women who have killed Black people. These chilling images, in Locke’s words, “direct the viewer to the source of this kind of violence against black people. The source is these men and the inchoate, and unnameable whiteness that creates and supports them. … They are killers adrift in the lie of whiteness.”

    Locke’s Homage to the Auction Block (2019–present) interrogates similar themes. Re-envisioning Josef A. Albers’s 1950–1976 Homage to the Square series, these compositions mark a significant formal departure from the artist’s earlier works. Imbuing Albers’s reductive imagery with an ominous charge, Homage to the Auction Block abstracts a slave auction block to its most basic geometric silhouette—reflecting Locke’s belief that “the basic Modernist form is indeed the slave auction block.” Queering the pure formalism and color theory of Albers, Homage to the Auction Block unpicks the intertwined histories of race and modernism.

    Locke’s practice ultimately pushes viewers to confront and critically engage with a complicated present and painful past. As he concludes, “If art is anything, it’s a public discourse. I’m not making art because I’m trying to express myself or share my feelings with the world because my feelings are no different than anyone else’s. I’m not special because I’m an artist. What I can do is I can make people pay attention to things through composition, through color, through scale, through organization through conceptual frameworks. I can make people look at something and think about it.”

    Locke’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including the fire next time, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (2024); the daily practice of painting, Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (2022); in the name of love,The Gallatin Galleries, New York University, NY (2019); Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray), curated by Pieranna Cavalchini, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (2018); Love Letter to a Library, Boston Public Library, MA (2018); The School of Love, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA (2018); there is no one left to blame, curated by Helen Molesworth, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2013), traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI (2014); and Rapture, curated by Erin Dziedzic, Hall Street Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, GA (2008). Locke has participated in many group exhibitions, including The Myth of Normal: A Celebration of Authentic Expression, MassArt Art Museum (MAAM), Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA (2023); Feedback, curated by Helen Molesworth, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY (2021); The BIG Picture: Giant Photographs and Powerful Portfolios, Fitchburg Art Museum, MA (2020); Recruiting for Utopia: Print and the Imagination, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA (2020); Coded, curated by Alexandria Smith, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, MA (2018); Nine Moments for Now, curated by Dell Marie Hamilton, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2018); Gay, curated by Ivan Monforte, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx Council on the Arts, NY (2014); Paint Things: Beyond the Stretcher, curated by Evan Garza and Dina Deitsch, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA (2013); and Making a Mark, curated by Helen Shlien, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA (2002). Locke’s works are in the collections of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC; Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA; Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; and Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA, among others. He is the recipient of many grants and awards, including the Rappaport Prize from the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (2022); the Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2020); the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2014); the LEF Contemporary Work Fund Grant (2009); and the Art Matters Foundation Award (2007).

  • Series

    • tongue paintings
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      tongue paintings

      A defining feature of Steve Locke’s practice is its focus on the vulnerability of male desire. Out of this exploration comes a recurring theme in the artist’s work: the image...
    • cruisers
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      cruisers

      Instigated by the artist’s relocation to New York, Steve Locke returned to his ongoing series of cruisers paintings in 2021. Imbuing a sideways glance with eagerness, uncertainty, and risk, these...
    • Homage to the Auction Block
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      Homage to the Auction Block

      Steve Locke’s ongoing series Homage to the Auction Block (2019–present) marks a significant formal departure from the artist’s earlier works. Re-envisioning Josef A. Albers’s 1950–1976 Homage to the Square series...
    • Free-standing Paintings
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      Free-standing Paintings

      Extending the artist’s engagement with portraiture into a new dimension, Steve Locke’s ongoing series of free-standing paintings push the formal and conceptual boundaries of painting. “I never thought of them...
    • Neons
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      Neons

      Reflecting his interest in using language to shed light on the intertwined relationship between politics, history, and race, Steve Locke’s neon installations isolate phrases—for example, “a dream” and “there is...
    • #killers
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      #killers

      Steve Locke's series #Killers (2017–present) recreates widely circulated images of individuals who have killed Black people, skillfully illustrating their portraits while leaving the rest of the scenes white. These chilling...
    • Family Pictures
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      Family Pictures

      Family Portraits (2016) addresses the roles technology and the media play in normalizing violence against Black bodies. By recontextualizing contemporary and historical images of racial violence within frames made for...
    • The School of Love
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      The School of Love

      Taking its title from Correggio’s sixteenth century mythological painting of Venus with Mercury and Cupid, Locke’s installation questions, “How do you learn to love? Who teaches you?” For Locke, Correggio’s...
    • grids
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      grids

      Steve Locke’s grids (2008) focus on linking sensory and sensual experiences to the practice of looking. There is a calculated tension from the color combinations and their interaction with the...
    • when you're a boy...
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      when you're a boy...

      Central to Steve Locke’s practice are the relationships between and among men. The exchange of looks, the privilege of looking and the wish to be seen are positions he explores...
  • Exhibitions
    • Between Us

      Between Us

      September 1 - October 15, 2023 Germantown
      Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents Between Us , an exhibition gathering works by an intergenerational group of queer artists advancing the practice of portraiture. Confronting the cyclical progress and backlash...
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    • Steve Locke

      Steve Locke

      your blues ain’t like mine October 27 - December 17, 2022 New York
      Alexander Gray Associates, New York presented Steve Locke: your blues ain’t like mine , the artist’s first one-person exhibition in Chelsea. Featuring recent figurative paintings and sculptures, your blues ain’t...
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    • Steve Locke

      Steve Locke

      Homage to the Auction Block June 10 - July 17, 2022 Germantown
      Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown announces Steve Locke’s first exhibition with the Gallery, Homage to the Auction Block . This focused presentation of the artist’s ongoing Homage to the Auction Block...
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  • Other Exhibitions

    • Steve Locke: the fire next time, MASS MoCA
      Exhibitions

      Steve Locke: the fire next time

      MASS MoCA August 3, 2024 - November 16, 2025
      Steve Locke's solo exhibition the fire next time at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA. The institution's press release follows: New York-based artist Steve Locke’s...
    • the daily practice of painting, Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech University
      Exhibitions

      the daily practice of painting

      Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech University October 13 - December 17, 2022
      Steve Locke's solo exhibition the daily practice of painting at Moss Arts Center at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. The institution's press release follows: Steve Locke’s...
    • Steve Locke: Homage to the Auction Block, Stone Gallery at Boston University
      Exhibitions

      Steve Locke: Homage to the Auction Block

      Stone Gallery at Boston University October 1 - 27, 2021
      Steve Locke's solo exhibition Homage to the Auction Block at Stone Gallery at Boston University, MA. The institution's press release follows: In this new series of work, artist Steve Locke...
    • in the name of love, Gallatin Galleries at NYU
      Exhibitions

      in the name of love

      Gallatin Galleries at NYU February 5 - March 1, 2019
      Steve Locke's solo show in the name of love at the Gallatin Galleries at NYU. The institution's press release follows: The Gallatin Galleries is pleased to announce the upcoming show...
    • there is no one left to blame, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
      Exhibitions

      there is no one left to blame

      Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston July 31 - October 27, 2013
      Steve Locke's one-person exhibition there is no one left to blame , curated by Helen Molesworth, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2013); traveled to Museum of Contemporary...
  • Public Collections
    Steve Locke
    Distance, 2006
    Oil on beveled panel
    Collection of the Renni Museum

    Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
    The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL
    Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
    Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
    Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY
    Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
    Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
    Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT
    Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA
    Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
    MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
    National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
    Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
    Rennie Museum, Vancouver, BC
    Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
    Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA

  • Videos
    • Steve Locke

      Steve Locke

      Anderson Ranch Arts Center November 14, 2022
      Since 1978, top contemporary artists have visited @Anderson Ranch Arts Center and produced quality artwork here in the Patton Print Shop. The Anderson Ranch Editions...
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    • Steve Locke on "Homage to the Auction Block"

      Steve Locke on "Homage to the Auction Block"

      Alexander Gray Associates July 11, 2022
      Steve Locke discusses his 'Homage to the Auction Block' series on view as part of 'Steve Locke: Homage to the Auction Block' at Alexander Gray...
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    • The Artist's Voice | Steve Locke with Evan Garza

      The Artist's Voice | Steve Locke with Evan Garza

      ICA Boston September 19, 2013
      The Artist's Voice: Steve Locke with Evan Garza, September 19, 2013. Artist Steve Locke sits down with Evan Garza—curator, writer, and co-founder of Fire Island...
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  • News / Events
    • ART SPEAKS: LaToya Ruby Frazier and Steve Locke

      ART SPEAKS: LaToya Ruby Frazier and Steve Locke

      Cinéma du Musée, 1379-A Sherbrooke St W, Montreal October 30, 2024, 7:00 PM
      Drawing on their recent exhibitions—LaToya Ruby Frazier’s at MoMA and Steve Locke’s at MASS MoCA—these two politically engaged American artists will reflect on how in their works they negotiate racial, social, economic, and artistic structures of power. With shared interests in history, justice, racism, systemic violence, education, queer rights and health care, both consider their works as platforms from which to speak to the issues in the world that demand our attention.
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    • Steve Locke: the fire next time

      Steve Locke: the fire next time

      MASS MoCA August 3, 2024–November 8, 2025
      Steve Locke's solo exhibition, the fire next time at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, will be on view from August 3, 2024–November 8, 2025. MASS...
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    • What you looking at? / Who you talking to?

      What you looking at? / Who you talking to?

      A conversation with Helga Davis and Steve Locke February 24, 2024

      Join us at Alexander Gray Associates, New York for What you looking at ? / Who you talking to? A conversation between Helga Davis and Steve Locke on Saturday, February 24 at 3:00 PM.

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    • Steve Locke

      Steve Locke

      Togetherness: For Better or Worse at Green Family Art Foundation October 7, 2023–January 21, 2024

      Steve Locke is included in a group exhibition, Togetherness: For Better or Worse at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas. 

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    • Steve Locke

      Steve Locke

      The Myth of Normal: A Celebration of Authentic Expression at MassArt Art Museum (MAAM) October 5, 2023–May 19, 2024

      Steve Locke is included in a group exhibition, The Myth of Normal: A Celebration of Authentic Expression at the MassArt Art Museum (MAAM), Boston, Massachusetts. 

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    • Melvin Edwards and Steve Locke

      Melvin Edwards and Steve Locke

      Then Is Now: Contemporary Black Art in America at Bruce Museum April 2–October 15, 2023

      Melvin Edwards and Steve Locke are included in the group exhibition Then Is Now: Contemporary Black Art in America at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT.

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    • Steve Locke

      Steve Locke

      Equals 6: A Sum Effect of Frank Bowling’s 5+1 at University Hall Gallery at University of Massachusetts November 1, 2022–February 25, 2023

      Steve Locke included in the group exhibition Equals 6: A Sum Effect of Frank Bowling’s 5+1 at University Hall Gallery at University of Massachusetts in Boston, MA.

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    • Steve Locke: the daily practice of painting

      Steve Locke: the daily practice of painting

      Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech University October 13–December 17, 2022

      Steve Locke's one person exhibition the daily practice of painting at Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, VA.

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  • Articles / Reviews
    • Steve Locke’s “Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray)” was displayed on the side of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA , 2018)

      Freddie Gray lives on in art, his eyes watching Baltimore

      The Baltimore Banner
      April 15, 2025 His stare is impossible to pass without locking eyes. That was likely the point. The mural at the corner of...
    • Steve Locke: "DYLANN (profile)," 2017.

      Steve Locke Talks About His Painterly and Polemical Provocations

      Art in America
      November 20, 2024 Steve Locke ’s best-known works are paintings of faces with their tongues sticking out. This fatuous facial gesture is immediately...
    • “Steve Locke: the fire next time” is at MASS MoCA through November of next year. Photo: Jon Verney

      One Fine Show: “Steve Locke, the fire next time” at MASS MoCA

      Observer
      September 13, 2024 Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a...
    • Installation View, Steve Locke: "the fire next time," MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2024). Photo: Jon Verney

      At Mass MoCA, Steve Locke’s ‘the fire next time’ chills to the bone

      The Boston Globe
      August 29, 2024 The artist nods to James Baldwin with an exhibition that brings to bear the everydayness of racial terror. NORTH ADAMS...
    • Art in America’s Fall “New Talent” Issue Features 20 Artists to Watch Plus Reimagined Monuments, Peter Hujar, and more

      Art in America
      August 27, 2024 This is a strange and scary time to be making art. Wars continue to rage in Ukraine and Gaza, and...
    • Installation View, Steve Locke: "the fire next time," MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2024). Photo: Jon Verney

      BITS & BYTES: Steve Locke at MASS MoCA

      The Berkshire Edge
      August 6, 2024 MASS MoCA presents the first exhibition from the Curatorial Exchange Initiative by artist Steve Locke North Adams— Now through November...
    • "cruisers (vest)," 2023. Oil on canvas

      Alex Gartenfeld's Top Picks from Frieze New York Viewing Room 2023

      Frieze
      May 11, 2023 The Artistic Director of ICA Miami selects new paintings by Steve Locke, and iconic works by Carlos Villa, Rosa Barba...
    • Artist Steve Locke at Anderson Ranch. Courtesy Anderson Ranch.

      Anderson Ranch Editions presents ‘Hot off the Press’

      The Aspen Times
      February 16, 2023 Brian Shure, master printer and director of Anderson Ranch Editions, has spent over 50 years mastering his craft — making...
    • "cruisers (cafe)," 2022

      Steve Locke

      The New Yorker
      December 7, 2022 This New York-based artist has honed an idiosyncratic language of abstraction, mingling references to cruising and to lynching with stirring...
    • Podcast: Seeing the 90’s Everywhere Right Now | With Helen Molesworth

      Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast
      November 2, 2022 In the premiere episode of a new series hosted by Helen Molesworth, the curator and writer talks with her friend...
    • A selection from Steve Locke's "the daily practice of painting" (2019-2020), egg tempera and oil emulsion on Claybord, 114 6- by 6-inch panels.

      Moss Arts Center exhibitions feature works from artists Craig Drennen and Steve Locke

      Virginia Tech News
      October 4, 2022 Works from two prominent artists are on display in Virginia for the very first time. The Moss Arts Center’s fall...
    • Artist Steve Locke has won the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum's Rappaport Prize. ROSS COLLAB

      Artist Steve Locke awarded Rappaport Prize by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

      The Boston Globe
      August 25, 2022 Few contemporary artists have left Boston under such public, or such fraught, circumstances as Steve Locke. The artist, whose work...
    • Photography courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Lamontagne Gallery, Boston © 2022 Steve Locke/artists rights society (ars), New York.

      A New Exhibition by Steve Locke to Open This June in Germantown, New York

      Interior Design Magazine
      May 4, 2022 Steve Locke has earned such accolades as the Guggenheim Fellowship for his art—painting, photography, sculpture—which centers on the sins of...
    • Artist Steve Locke is this year's speaker in the Gibbes Museum's Distinguished Lecture Series, set for 6 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Sottile Theatre.

      Artist Steve Locke to discuss public monuments in Gibbes Museum lecture

      The Post and Courier
      November 11, 2021 In April 2015, Freddie Gray was arrested by Baltimore police and badly injured during transport. The 25-year-old African American man...
    • Artist Steve Locke said he believes in confronting the causes of injustice rather than glossing over them with what he calls decorative gestures | Photo by Liza Voll

      Artist Steve Locke set for keynote speech

      Charleston City Paper
      October 27, 2021 The Gibbes Museum of Art’s Distinguished Lecture Series brings world-renowned artists to Charleston for programs designed to stimulate conversations around...
    • A view of the Perimeter Gallery with Steve Locke’s “Homage to the Auction Block” (2020), right, with the shape of an auction block at the center of Josef Albers, and Tyler Mitchell's “Laundry Line” (2020) at the back. Credit: Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times

      Teaching a New Inclusiveness at The School

      The New York Times
      August 12, 2021 KINDERHOOK, N.Y. — Feedback is what you get when a system’s output is looped through its input, as when Jimi...
    • Philip Guston, "The Studio," 1969, oil on canvas, 73 1/4 × 71″. © The Estate of Philip Guston.

      GUSTON, WHITENESS, AND THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE VILE WORLD, By Steve Locke

      Artforum
      September 5, 2020 I AM IN ART SCHOOL, my first year in an MFA program. 1999. I am the only Black student in...
    • Steve Locke's "Homage to the Auction Block #27-nightwatch." LAMONTAGNE GALLERY

      A painter challenges modernism with the harrowing history of slavery

      The Boston Globe
      July 29, 2020 Longtime Bostonian Steve Locke left the city for a job in New York last year after he withdrew his proposal...
    • Artist Steve Locke in his home and studio in Brooklyn. JENNIFER S. ALTMAN

      Guggenheim Foundation awards fellowships to several local scholars and artists

      The Boston Globe
      April 9, 2020 A bestselling Cambridge author, a filmmaker at MassArt, and an illustrious public artist are among the local scholars and artists...
    • Artist Steve Locke stood in his new home and studio in Brooklyn. His "Auction Block Memorial at Faneuil Hall" met opposition from the NAACP. JENNIFER S. ALTMAN/FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

      Boston was robbed of a slave monument at Faneuil Hall. Here’s what happened.

      The Boston Globe
      February 28, 2020 'The history of art, whether it's in music or written or what have you, has always been bloody, because dictators...
    • Earlier this year, Steve Locke stood outside Faneuil Hall at the site of his proposed memorial to enslaved people. ANTHONY PALOCCI JR.

      Boston lost a powerful, poetic work when artist pulled his ‘Auction Block’ slave memorial

      The Boston Globe
      August 17, 2019 On a recent sunny afternoon just outside the Great Hall at Faneuil Hall Marketplace, tourists sporting fanny packs and dollar-store...
    • Why I withdrew my proposed slave memorial at Faneuil Hall

      The Boston Globe
      August 5, 2019 by Steve Locke I am the artist who proposed and recently withdrew a design for a memorial artwork at Faneuil...
    • Steve Locke. COURTESY THE ARTIST/AUDREY HSIA

      Steve Locke Withdraws Proposal for Slave Auction Block Memorial in Boston

      ARTnews
      July 17, 2019 Artist Steve Locke is withdrawing a plan to install a memorial slave auction block at the historic Faneuil Hall marketplace...
    • Steve Locke, “DYLANN (profile)” (2017), Graphite on Paper, 22 x 30 inches (all photos by the author)

      The Potential of Ancestral Memory to Reconcile Personal and Racial Histories

      Hyperallergic
      October 26, 2018 Steve Locke ’s racial imaginings uncover the quiet nuances of American history since chattel slavery. The deeply embedded traumas of...
    • Steve Locke, "Officer Timothy Loehmann (fishing)," 2017, graphite on paper, 22 x 30".

      Critics' Pick: Steve Locke, yours mine & ours

      Artforum
      October 1, 2018 For Steve Locke, the grid—that modernist symbol of order and reason—exemplifies a vastly different kind of modernity: antiblack violence. At...
    • Steve Locke (pictured with one of his past exhibits) is an African-American artist, who is also one of the city of Boston’s current artists-in-residence.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff/file 2016

      The nearly erased artist behind the hidden face of the proposed Faneuil Hall memorial

      The Boston Globe
      August 21, 2018 Steve Locke sat in a tranquil museum courtyard the other day and pondered a controversy of which he never thought...
    • Faneuil Hall during a winter storm in 2017.

      Another way to atone for past sins at Faneuil Hall

      The Boston Globe
      July 21, 2018 Former Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey was racist. Edward Devotion, an 18th-century land owner, was also a slave owner....
    • Artist Steve Locke watches the installation of his piece, "Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie." (Courtesy Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)

      Outside The Gardner, A Place To Mourn Freddie Gray Through Color

      WBUR
      June 28, 2018 Outside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a massive vertical triptych with three distinct monochromes hangs from the front facade of...
    • Steve Locke’s “school of love & Family Pictures” is a two-part exhibition up at Samson and Gallery Kayafas.

      An artist’s vision of where racial violence meets the American dream of home

      The Boston Globe
      October 30, 2016 In the summer of 2014, Steve Locke was savoring the early days of a sabbatical from his job as an...
    • “Steve Locke: Family Pictures” at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, Mass, installation view.

      Steve Locke: Family Pictures

      Art Pulse Magazine
      October 5, 2016 It was a short walk from Samson Gallery, where I attended Steve Locke’s opening reception for his solo show “School...
    • Steve Locke visiting BURNAWAY‘s chilly office. (Photo: Carl Rojas)

      A Not-So-Brief Chat with Painter Steve Locke

      Burnaway
      February 14, 2014 After being holed up for three days in an iced-over Atlanta, we were thrilled to meet yesterday with Boston-based painter...
    • Steve Locke, "There Is No One Left to Blame," 2005–13, mixed media, 70 1/2 x 30 x 22″.

      Steve Locke, Institute of Contemporary Art

      Artforum
      November 5, 2013 The main motif in Steve Locke’s exhibition “There Is No One Left to Blame,” curated by Helen Molesworth, was the...
    • Steve Locke "the rising up," 2013. (Courtesy of the artist and Samson, Boston)

      Boston Painter Steve Locke: ‘It’s My Job To Bear Witness To My Time’

      WBUR
      July 30, 2013 “If you’re going to make paintings you have to up the ante about what painting can be,” says Boston artist...
    • Steve Locke: "you don’t deserve me" (detail), 2009-12, mixed mediums, painting: 10 inches square; at Samsøn.

      Steve Locke

      Art in America
      October 12, 2012 For his second solo show at Samsøn, titled “you don’t deserve me,” Boston artist Steve Locke--known for installations of variously...

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