Steve Zolin

"I treat my art like a living thing, sometimes directing it, other times letting it go where it wants to go. This has led to many interesting stops from gestural figure drawing to cityscapes to abstract sculpture and back again." Born in 1972 and raised in West Orange, NJ, Steve Zolin earned his BFA cum laud at Washington University in 1994 and won an MFA Fellowship at Florida State University, graduating in 2005. Between degrees he spent nine years in Santa Fe, New Mexico enmeshed in the art scene there. Married to photographer Robin Noble-Zolin, he now resides in Manhattan where he exhibits regularly. His work has also been exhibited throughout the country, as well as internationally. In 2019 he executed a 13' painting of Verdi Square, which he recently sold to a private collector on Instagram. In 2018 he installed three permanent sculptures in the lobby of the AC New York Times Square Hotel. Before that, he executed eight 11’ paintings for the Windlass Restaurant inspired by the Grand Hotel Era of Lake Hopatcong. In 2015 he completed a commission by the New York City Parks Department for a 28’ mural in Manhattan’s First Park, and could be seen at Scope New York at the Untitled Projects booth. Zolin was a featured solo artist at the 2012 (E)merge Art Fair in Washington, DC. and his work was seen in the 24th International Juried Show at the Visual Arts Center of NJ, curated by Susan Kismaric of the Museum of Modern Art, NY. His installation “Unstraightness,” explored space, gesture, and movement, and was sponsored by Chashama and The National Endowment for the Arts. Other highlights include a mural for Senator Joseph Lieberman’s home synagogue in Connecticut and a solo exhibition at the Clifton Arts Center.