Steve Lambert

Despite never graduating from high school, Steve Lambert went on to study sociology, film, and music before receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000 and a Master of Fine Arts degree at UC Davis in 2006. He founded the outdoor, guerilla art gallery, the Budget Gallery, in 1999 and the Anti-Advertising Agency in 2004. His projects have won awards from the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Belle Foundation, and others. His work has been shown in nationally in cities like Detroit, New York, throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as internationally in Havana and Rotterdam. Writings about his work have appeared in multiple publications such as Punk Planet, Artweek, and Newsweek. Recent projects include WhyTheyHate.Us a participatory web photo project using images submitted to Flickr, the popular photo hosting site, and Simmer Down Sprinter, a two player, sit-down, arcade style video game controlled by player's bio-feedback.