Steven Pollock is a multifaceted creative based in Vienna. His career spans writing, film, music, and art curation. Growing up in Princeton he began making backyard Super 8 films with future director Mitchell Lichtenstein. it was also in Princeton that he made a deep dive into Pop Art while attending arthouse screenings of Fellini, Kubrick, and Antonio. This combination was the genesis of his belief that categorization usually hinders artistic development.
In NY as an SVA fine arts student, he studied video under Shigeko Kubota and film theory with Joan Braderman. Seeking alternative venues to Soho galleries, the New York nightclub scene was an opportunity to stage his first multimedia event Cold War Zeitgeist, (1981.). Pollock also exhibited at the Times Square Show, Fun Gallery, Annina Nosei & the Pat Hearn Gallery & in Europe the Cartier Fondation & Lia Rumma, Naples.
His curatorial projects continued with international exhibitions like Art in Action, featuring artist Kenny Scharf and performer Ann Magnuson amongst others, at the Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo.
In 1996 he instigated online collaborations with the artists Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne & Asha Putli utilizing the potential of the internet. Other projects in Tokyo, India, Norway, France, Italy, and London expanded his global reach.
Recent years have seen Pollock focus on film, collaborating with Viennese filmmaker Marieli Fröhlich on an experimental short, a documentary selected for the New Jersey Film Festival while writing and scoring for a neo-noir musical drama inspired by the life story of an outlier artist, set in 70’s Berlin and 1980s New York.