STEVEN HARWICK IS A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST LIVING IN BROOKLYN, NY.
Harwick’s practice utilizes photography, video, installation, sculpture, and collage to highlight identity, obsession, subversions, and perversions. His self-published zine, Bound Leather, demonstrates the central focus of his project work: to pull from cultural history and traditional fetish imagery while simultaneously subverting those standards by showcasing an array of people systematically excluded from the long-established canon. Originally started as a means of exploring and documenting the contemporary leather and BDSM communities through a photographic lens, the publication has grown in scope and scale over time. Harwick has exhibited domestically and internationally, and self-published his first monograph, By the Skin of My Teeth. He holds a BFA from Pratt Institute.
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Steven Harwick
b. 1991
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/
2024 Flaming Star | Satellite Art Show | New York, NY
2023 By the Skin of My Teeth | CULTUREEDIT | Los Angeles, CA
Sniffing Strangers' Gloves | XPIZZA curated by Samantha Sutcliffe | New York, NY
2021 SKiNFLiCK | URSA | Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/
2021 In Excess | Creamcake 3hd Festival: Power Play | Berlin, Germany
Hollywood Forever | Other Subjects | Brooklyn, NY
2020 Works From Home | ARTpartmentNYC | Brooklyn, NY
2019 Half Life | 182 Avenue C | New York, NY
2018 Queer Zines / Queer Art | LGBTQ Center | New York, NY
2017 Visible Scene | Practice Gallery | New York, NY
Just Add Water | Chinatown Soup | New York, NY
Slide Show | 169 Richardson St. | Brooklyn, NY
2016 Just Add Water | The Living Gallery | Brooklyn, NY
COLLECTIONS/
Museum of Sex | New York, NY
Schwules Museum | Berlin, Germany
Tom of Finland Foundation | Los Angeles, CA
Leather Archives & Museum | Chicago, IL
UK Leather & Fetish Archive at Bishopsgate Institute | London, UK
National Museum of American History | Washington, D.C.
SCREENINGS/
2023 Motel Dream | Sightlines curated by Natasha Gornik | The Slipper Room | New York, NY
2022 RAWHiDE | Fotografiska | New York, NY
RAWHiDE | Various Shorts curated by Killer Dentist | Spectacle Theater | Brooklyn, NY
2020 Here's Christeene | Ghost: The Shining Edition | VIDEODROOM | Ghent, Belgium
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS/
2023 Spank U, Next: A Fetish & BDSM Podcast | Ep. 32: Leather fetishes with artist Steven Harwick
2022 By the Skin of My Teeth book release & artist talk | Fotografiska | New York, NY
AWARDS/
2023 Analog Sparks | Silver in Human/Intimacy for "Bound Leather"
London International Creative Competition | Shortlist in Art Book
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris | Bronze in Book/Monograph
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris | Honorable Mention in Portraiture/Culture
PUBLICATIONS/
By the Skin of My Teeth | 2022
Bound Leather | Volumes 1 - 17 | 2017-
PUBLISHING EVENTS/
2023 Queer Art Mart | WORTHLESSSTUDIOS | Brooklyn, NY
NY Queer Zine Fair | LGBTQ Center | New York, NY
2022 Paris Ass Book Fair | Lafayette Anticipations | Paris, France
NY Queer Zine Fair | Brooklyn Public Library | Brooklyn, NY
2021 Bushwig | Knockdown Center | Queens, NY
2020 Hester Street Fair | Fundraiser for Marsha P. Johnson Institute | Brooklyn, NY
2019 Goth Shop | Old Truman Brewery | London, UK
Paris Ass Book Fair | Palais de Tokyo | Paris, France
NY Queer Zine Fair | Brooklyn Public Library | Brooklyn, NY
Hester Street Fair | World Pride Market | New York, NY
Independent Art Book Fair | Industria | Brooklyn, NY
Bushwig | Knockdown Center | Queens, NY
2018 Paris Ass Book Fair | Palais de Tokyo | Paris, France
Bloodmoney | Lucas Lucas | Brooklyn, NY
NY Queer Zine Fair | LGBTQ Center | New York, NY
Cultural Traffic | That That Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
Independent Art Book Fair | 307 Kent Ave. | Brooklyn, NY
Bushwig | Knockdown Center | Queens, NY
It's Called Fashion Flea | Museum of Sex | New York, NY
2017 NY Queer Zine Fair | LGBTQ Center | New York, NY
COMMISSIONED WORKS/
2024 "Black Leather" | DRUMMER | Spring 2024
"The City" | Django James | Music video
"Mystery Man" | DRUMMER | Winter 2024
2023 "Latex" | Wussy | Vol. 11
"Talk Therapy" | Luxtress | Album cover
"Lancelot + Donald" | DRUMMER | Fall 2023
"Bound Leather" | STRAP: a queer trans masc magazine | Issue One
2022 "The Beating Heart of Kembra Pfahler" | Buffalo Zine | Issue No. 16 [Digital cover]
"Marsha Pels" | Precog | Volume 7
"Macy Rodman, It's a Miracle We're Alive" | My Comrade | Summer (Comeback) Issue [Cover]
"On The Record, Off The Record: Vol. II" | The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black | Pioneer Works
Assorted editorials | American Deadstock
"Water Friends & Desert Wastelands: An Interview with Kembra Pfahler" | Precog | Volume 6
2021 "Christeene: In the Photography of Steven Harwick" | Cave Homo | Volume III: Day Sleeper
"Rock 'N' Roll Gay Guy" | Macy Rodman | Music video
"Love Me!" | Macy Rodman | Music video
"Call me C8" & "Code Pink" | Façadomy | C8LYN Box Set
"1983" | Man on Man | Music video
2020 "Kembra Pfahler, I Believe in Halloween" | DecameronTV for Red Bull Arts | Music video
"Is That All There Is?" | Lady Bunny ft. Christeene | Music video segment in C#ntagious
"Rave Trash" | Whatever21 | Lookbook
"Runnin' Down My Back" | Macy Rodman | Music video
2019 "Endless Kindness" | Macy Rodman | Album cover
"Liv Tyler" | ALEXA / NY Post | Video editorial
2018 "Bound Leather Feature" | Cave Homo | Volume II: Visuals [Cover]
"CreepySexyCool" | Minivan | Album cover
2017 "Zach Nutman, Needleporn Artist" | Drøme | Volume II
"Holiday Gif's" | MTV
2015 "Thankful 2015 Pop Moments" | MTV
"Marilyn Forever" | ELLE Germany | Video editorial
"Bad Blood" | Lutefisk Magazine | Issue 13
