Early career
Grew up near the Montana–North Dakota border, entered the Air Force as a cryptologic Arabic linguist and later worked with the United Nations in Baghdad while developing multimedia art.
The documented record
History
Exhibitions, commissions, publications and grants from Steven Ochs’s archived artist CV. All 47 dated entries are available below.
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From early photomontage to immersive spaces.
The record spans exhibitions beginning in 2001, participatory installations, commissions and publications. Project pages provide images and context; the dated entries here retain the names and locations documented in the archived CV.
From the artist’s archive
Projects and turning points
This account draws on Ochs’s archived artist history. The separate dated record below reproduces all 47 entries from his archived CV.
Before 2005
Foundations
Iraqi dinar collage
Used Iraqi dinar as the surface for protest collage. The separate archived CV later records the 2006 Bush Dinar exhibition.
Explore the related record →Digital collage, 2002–2003
The archived CV records digital-art exhibitions in Madrid, Caracas, Buenos Aires and Maracaibo during these years.
Explore the related record →2005–2012
Participation
Union Hall and ArtFaceOff, 2005–2007
Opened Union Hall in Portland and developed the ArtFaceOff site and tournament. A surviving 2007 principles page is signed Steven Ochs.
Explore the related record →The Ochs Cube, mid-2000s
An early multimedia sculpture explored perceived depth through eye spacing.
Explore the related record →SteamPotVille, 2009–2010
The children’s story joined Ochs’s writing and digital collages; the archived CV lists Running Press Kids in 2010.
Explore the related record →Ford experience tour, 2010
The artist’s history describes temporary immersive food-bank experiences developed for a Ford tour.
got protest, 2011
The artist’s history describes an Occupy-era public artwork connected to text messages.
Hyperparallax, 2012
The artist’s history describes a physical-and-digital collage commission for Vulcan.
Explore the related record →Olympian Torch, 2012
The artist’s history describes mobile work; the CV records an Olympian Torch Experience commission in London.
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ArtFaceOff · original 2007 site logo.
2012–2018
Stories & spaces
Space Needle and Amazon, 2012–2016
The CV dates The Mind of the Needle to 2012, an Amazon Light Box Mural to 2015 and the Amazon Experience Campus Masterplan to 2016.
Explore the related record →The Forever Exquisite Corpse, 2016
A collaborative scrolling picture thread described in the artist’s history.
PicThread · interface archive
Surviving mockups, annotated layouts and a filmed demonstration show an app for collaborative image threads.
Explore the project →Pudding Heroes and Tinder Your AI, 2017–2018
The artist’s history describes work on the novel and a 2018 Portland State University collaboration called Tinder Your AI.
Explore the related record →2020–2024
Recent work
Goose Cube: Inception and Fortune, 2020–2021
The artist’s history names Inception Cube and Fortune Cube within the wider Goose Cube work. Three cubes toured multiple Northwest locations; the third is not named in this source.
Inception Cube exterior · artist archive.
Explore the project →The Portal / Signal House, 2023
The Portal and Signal House are two names for the same Lake Oswego overnight immersive artwork. The archived CV and contemporary coverage document it under The Portal name in 2023.
Explore the related record →Stereo Layering and Love of Nature, 2023–2024
The CV records Stereo Layering commissions in 2023 and 2024 and Love of Nature #3 and #4 commissions in 2024.
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The Portal · Photo: Steven Ochs, via Airbnb / Willamette Week, 2023.
The dated record
47 entries from the archived CV
The lists below retain the documented exhibition, commission, publication, press, grant and roster entries. They are grouped by type and ordered by year.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions from the archived artist CV.
- FCCO, Art Experience at The Portal - Lake Oswego, Oregon
- Lives Deux - Alderwood Center Court, Seattle, Washington
- Earth Death - Pioneer Place, Portland, Oregon
- Lives - Rose City Comic Con, Portland, Oregon
- Church of the Black Hole - Electric Sky, Skykomish, Washington
- Forever Feels with Chris Chandler - The Armory, Portland Center Stage, Portland, Oregon
- Floating Away - RexHill Winery, Newberg, Oregon
- Half Hole - EcoTrust Building, Portland, Oregon
- Interactive Laser Show Installation - Skykomish, Washington
- BreakDown Breakout - Hiawatha Group Show, Seattle, Washington
- Untitled Group Show - Georgetown Arts Center, Seattle, Washington
- Photomontages Surreal - Art Elements, Newberg, Oregon
- Hiawatha Group Show - Seattle, Washington
- Untitled Show - Reno Cultural Center, Reno, Nevada
- Surreal Montages - Portland Children's Museum, Portland, Oregon
- Tunnel Show - Everett Station Gallery, Portland, Oregon
- Untitled Group Show - Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Williamsburg, New York
- New Photography - Bettcher Gallery, Miami, Florida
- Bush Dinar - Everett Station Gallery, Portland, Oregon
- Photomontages - Blue Leaf Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- Two Open Doors - Everett Station Gallery, Portland, Oregon
- Sister Sally's Exposition - Rake Art, Portland, Oregon
- Tents - Rake Art, Portland, Oregon
- Pollock Project - Sub Rosa, Portland, Oregon
- Photomontage - Magidson Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
- Arte Digital - Banco Mara, Maracaibo, Venezuela
- Group Show - Slowinski Gallery, New York, New York
- ESTAMPA - Madrid, Spain
- Montajes - Robert Martin Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Salon de Arte Digital - Caracas, Venezuela
- Photomontage Portraits - Trapeze, Seattle, Washington
- Up Here From Down There - Mondak Museum, Sidney, Montana
Goose Cube
The three-cube touring installation is documented in its own archive, with original project images and films.
View the projectCommissions
Documented commissions and public experiences.
- Love of Nature #4 - Umi Games, Portland, Oregon
- Love of Nature #3 - Taffy Stream, Portland, Oregon
- Stereo Layering - Private Collection, Portland, Oregon
- Stereo Layering - Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon, Portland, Oregon
- Amazon Experience Campus Masterplan - Seattle, Washington
- Light Box Mural - Amazon Wainwright Building, Seattle, Washington
- Olympian Torch Experience - American Olympian Society, London, England
- The Mind of the Needle - Space Needle, Seattle, Washington
Publications & press
Documented publications and coverage.
- The Portal is a one-of-a-kind overnight immersive art experience - Fox 12 News
- Goose Cube: The Portal, Is Like a Night at the Museum on Psychedelics (With or Without Actual Psychedelics) - Willamette Week
- Lake Oswego's 'The Portal' Airbnb lets guests spend the night in an immersive art experience - The Oregonian
- Goose Cube, Art Installation in a Box - The Oregonian
- SteamPotVille - writing and digital collages; Running Press Kids
Grants & rosters
Documented grants and roster selections.
- Passable Art Grant - Electric Sky, Seattle, Washington
- Seattle Public Arts Commission Roster - Seattle, Washington
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