Steve Parker is an artist and musician who creates sculptural ecosystems that transform spaces into large-scale collaborative performances. His work invites viewers to engage with layered sonic objects, salvaged materials, and communal rituals to change how we listen to our bodies, to each other, and to the natural world.
He is the recipient of the 2025 Creative Capital Award, the Rome Prize, the Pollock-Krasner Award, a Fulbright Award, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Parker’s projects range from an outdoor opera for 1.5 million bats—featuring echolocation devices and conch shells—to a sanctuary of acoustic mirrors and bird feeders playing 12th-century liturgical chants. Other works include monumental ear trumpets inspired by World War II surveillance tools, symphonies for bicycles and pedicabs, and sonic healing rituals performed by NCAA marching bands.
Exhibition and performance highlights include the American Academy in Rome, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, CUE Art Foundation, Gwangju Media Art Festival, the Lucerne Festival, MASS MoCA, and South by Southwest.
