Cole Sternberg
American visual artist
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Cole Sternberg is a Californian visual artist. Sternberg's media include painting, photography, sculpture, literature, room installations and film. Cole Sternberg Paintings, a hardcover book released in 2008 features six years of his painting. The 162 page book is listed as the first public release of Sternberg's work. Subsequent work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe.[1]
Cole Sternberg | |
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Cole Sternberg, Sag Harbor, July 2013 | |
| Born | Cole Andrew Sternberg |
| Website | http://www.colesternberg.com/ |
Early life
Sternberg was born in Richmond, VA and grew up in Saratoga, CA. He spent his early life drawing endlessly, but disliked the concept of being told how to perceive art, hence his educational pursuits led to B.A. degrees from Villanova University in business, and a Juris Doctor from American University. While at American, Sternberg received the university's Highest Award for Scholarship at the Graduate Level.[2] He hung oil paintings in a bar in his spare time as a student at American.[3]
Career
Cole Sternberg's practice spans painting, installation, video, and writing, often unfolding as sustained series that interrogate pressing social concerns — from human rights and their entanglement with legal frameworks, to the fragility of the environment, to the manipulations and excesses of humankind.
His works are frequently understated or quietly subversive, propelled by lyrical visual strategies and an undercurrent of poetry. At their core lies a preoccupation with the dissonance between humanity’s ideals and humankind’s actions — a misalignment that, in his view, impedes genuine social evolution.
Collections
His works are held by major collections throughout the world, such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),[4] Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA), Museum of Old and New Art (Hobart, Tasmania), American University Museum (AUM) and Deutsche Telekom.
Reception
Cole's work has been featured in the New York Times,[5] Wall Street Journal,[6] Whitewall Magazine,[7] Issue Magazine,[8] Autre Magazine,[9] Hercules,[10] Denver Post,[11] Miami New Times,[12] LA Weekly,[13] Art Ltd.,[14] Architectural Digest,[15] Angeleno, Sleek,[16] Metal Magazine,[17] Flaunt,[18] ArtNet,[19] Huffington Post,[20] Cool Hunting,[21] Santa Barbara Magazine,[22] Huffington Post,[23][24] Lum Art Magazine,[25] Carla[26] and Elephant.[27]
Exhibition history
2025
2023
- a forest of thoughts in quick succession, Praz Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA[30]
- Storage Wars, The Hole, Los Angeles[31]
- We Are They: Glitch Ecology and the Thickness of Now, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA[32]
- (Probably) All in My Mind, Verse, London, U.K.[33]
- For Zoe Leonard: A Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB), Santa Barbara, CA[34]
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
- you'll miss your riding lesson tomorrow, Primary Projects, Caruso Art and Flaunt Magazine, Miami, FL[62]
- Perpetual Conceptual: Echoes of Eugenia Butler, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Los Angeles, CA[63]
- All in for the 99%, Ace Museum, Los Angeles, CA[64]
- Salon de Notre Societe, Primary Projects, Miami, FL[65]
- Group Exhibition, Deutsche Telekom (Detecon), Cologne, Germany
- Group Exhibition, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO[66]
2011
2010
2009
Publications
- the constitution, the free republic of california, 2021[74]
- my first summer in the sierra, words by John Muir, imagery and design by Cole Sternberg, hat & beard press, 2021[75]
- the nature of breathing in salt, hat & beard press, 2019[76]
- the windward side of the island, MAMA, 2017
- for a moment it scraped then cooled the skin, LAXART, 2016
- all his strength was concentrated in his fists, including the very strength that held him upright, 2013
- And those who were dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music, 2010, Chronicling the exhibition of the same name at the American University Museum
- Cole Sternberg Paintings, 2008, Chronicling on canvas works from 2002–2008