Steven Chodoriwsky

Steven Chodoriwsky (Englehart, Canada, 1980) is an artist, designer, writer, and educator. His research-centered practice engages with performance and interdisciplinary platforms, pedagogical models, and speculative acts of reading and writing within the built environment. His projects employ a diverse range of media including site-specific installation, workshops, publishing actions, theatre pieces, and audio-visual artifacts.

Based in Salt Lake City, he is Assistant Professor in the Division of Multi-Disciplinary Design at the University of Utah. Prior to this, he taught at Cal Poly Pomona, Cornell, and at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture, where he held the Peter Reyner Banham Fellowship. He was educated in architecture and environmental studies at the University of Waterloo and Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has also held extended art/design research positions at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, and the Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu.

Together with Chaz Prymek and Joshua Graham, he is currently developing the project Construction Company, as part of the inaugural Assemblage Art Fund awardees for experimental site-specific artworks throughout Salt Lake County. He is also a member of Collective Question, a working group that studies structures of resistance through archival research and exhibition production; projects include F: Reconstituting Tolstoy College at UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, and Loosely Assembled at SBC Gallery, Montreal.

Chodoriwsky has exhibited and performed work at a variety of venues from the grassroots to the international, such as the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, de Appel Arts Centre, Wendy’s Subway, Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Suzuki Company of Toga International Theatre Festival, among others. He also publishes documents for organizations and ad hoc occasions under the imprint Edits.