Steven Bode

Steven Bode is director of Film & Video Umbrella, a London-based agency that is one of Britain’s main commissioners of artists’ film and video work. During his time in that role (which spans from 1993 to the present), he has initiated well over a hundred projects, including major new works from internationally-acclaimed artists such as Isaac Julien, Gillian Wearing, Jane & Louise Wilson, Mark Leckey, Johan Grimonprez, Daria Martin, and Tacita Dean. Alongside this commissioning activity, he has also curated a number of other large-scale group exhibitions such as Airport (1997, for Photographers’ Gallery, London; with Jeremy Millar), The Other Side of Zero (2000, for Video Positive, Liverpool), There is No Road (2008, for LABoral, Gijón, Spain), and Somewhere Becoming Sea for Hull UK City of Culture (2017) as well as film and video programmes such as New Video from Great Britain (1997, for MoMA, New York). He has written extensively about video, film, and contemporary art for several publications and has contributed essays to many artists’ monographs as well as catalogue essays for numerous Film and Video Umbrella publications.