Steina and Woody Vasulka

Steina Vasulka is a pioneering video artist who has been producing work since the 1960s. In 1971, she co-founded The Kitchen in New York with her partner, Woody Vasulka, an experimental institution for video, performance, and cross-disciplinary art that continues to shape video art history and inspire subsequent generations of artists. Her work has been exhibited in major museums and festivals worldwide, including the Whitney Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Berlin Film Festival, and the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavík. Steina became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1976 and represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 1997. In 2014, the Vasulka Chamber, a center dedicated to electronic and digital art, was established at the National Gallery of Iceland. Her work is part of significant collections, including the Tate Modern, Smithsonian American Art Museum, SFMOMA, and many others.

Woody Vasulka was a pioneer in electronic and digital image production. Throughout his lifelong exploration of machines—from cathode-ray televisions to digital computer systems—he, along with his wife Steina, was one of the first to view the electronic signal as an artistic medium. Woody Vasulka became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979 and received numerous honors and awards throughout his career, including honorary doctorates from The San Francisco Art Institute, Brno University of Technology, and the Prague Academy of the Arts. His work has been exhibited in major museums worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, The Whitney Museum, and others. His work is part of prestigious museum collections such as The Broad Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco, and The Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others.