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World-renowned sculptor Steve Tobin, makes monumental, nature-based works in bronze and steel, which are currently on exhibition at Grounds for Sculpture in Trenton, New Jersey; the Frost Art Museum in Miami, the City of Osaka in Japan, the Torode Group of Companies in Calgary, Canada; the City of Chicago and Peggy Nortabaert Nature Museum; Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri, among many other sites in the U.S. and abroad.
Tobin is perhaps best known for the Trinity Root, the first and only 9/11 memorial near Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan. The famed bronze casting of "the tree that saved St. Paul's Chapel" on that fateful day is permanently sited at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway, and has attracted millions of visitors since it was installed on the four year anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center.
"The function for me of roots is to show the power of the unseen," Tobin told The New York Times. "And on 9/11, we found out about the power of all our unseen connections, the things that nurture us that are hidden below the surface."
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EDUCATION:
1979 Tulane University, B.S. Mathematics
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS:
2010 Explosive Relationships, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Steelroots, City of Calgary, Canada; Permanent public installation
Steelroots, City of Chicago, Illinois; Public installation
2008 Steelroots, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami
Weeds in the Garden, Fordhook Farms/Burpee Seed Gardens Doylestown, Pennsylvania, installation
Steelroots, Kouros Gallery; New York, New York
2007 Steelroots, “40 Years of Public Art Anniversary,” City of New York Dept. of Parks and Recreation,
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, catalog
Cocoons, Philadelphia International Airport; installation
Steelroots, Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 Steve Tobin Paintings, OK Harris Gallery; New York, New York
Exploded Earth, American Museum of Ceramic Art; Pomona, California
Steelroots, Kouros Sculpture Center; Ridgefield, Connecticut
2005 Trinity Root, 9.11 memorial, Wall Street & Broadway; New York, New York, permanent
Steve Tobin Paintings, The Banana Factory; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Earth Bronzes and New Nature, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens; Boothbay, Maine
2004 Roots, Laumeier Sculpture Park; St. Louis, Missouri, installation
Roots, Lincoln Park; Chicago, Illinois, installation
2003 Lantern House, Portland Museum of Art; Portland, Maine
Earth Bronzes, College of the Atlantic; Bar Harbor, Maine
Earth Bronzes, Florida International University; Miami, Florida
2002 Tobin’s Naked Earth, George C. Page Museum, La Brea Tar Pits; Los Angeles, California (2002-2003)
Tobin’s Naked Earth, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History; Los Angeles, California (2002-2003)
Lantern House, George Eastman House; Rochester, New York
2001 Earth Bronzes, Lehigh University; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (2001-2003)
Earth Bronze Trilogy - Part I, Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2000 Earth Bronzes, American Museum of Natural History; New York, New York (2000-2001)
African Termite Mounds, Montefiore Park; West Harlem, New York (2000-2001)
1999 Cocoons, Corning Museum of Glass, Sculpture Gallery; Corning, New York (1999-2001)
1998 Earth Bronzes, Fuller Museum of Art; Brockton, Massachusetts, catalog
Earth Bronzes, OK Harris Gallery; New York, New York, catalog
Earth Bronzes, artetindustriess; New York, New York, catalog
1997 Broadway River, New York University, Broadway Windows; New York, New York
1996 Matzoh House, Gallery B.A.I.; New York, New York
1995 Steve Tobin: Reconstructions, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College; Collegeville,Pennsylvania, catalog
Peyton Wright Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico
Bentley Gallery; Scottsdale, Arizona
1994 Sanske Gallery; Zurich, Switzerland
Habatat Gallery; Boca Raton, Florida
1993 Steve Tobin at Retretti, Retretti Art Center; Punkaharju, Finland, catalog
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS:
2008 Retrospective of Permanent Collection, Opening of Museum of Art & Design; New York, New York
2007 Shattering Glass: New Perspectives, The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, catalog
2005 Earth Bronzes, Spring/Summer 2005 Exhibitions, Grounds for Sculpture; Trenton, New Jersey, catalog (2005-2007)
El Bosque (The Forest), Federico Silva Sculpture Museum Park; San Luis Potosi, Mexico, traveling exhibition, catalog
2000 Roots, Vancouver International Sculpture Project; Vancouver, Canada, catalog
Exploded Clay with Glass Riverbed, Americans in Venice Exhibition, American Craft Museum; New York, New York (catalog)
1994 Waterworks, Palm Beach Community Museum; Palm Beach, Florida
Alene Lapides Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico
Robert Morris Gallery; New York, New York
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Newhall, Edith. Sculptor Steve Tobin Explodes into Making Clay and Glass, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 11, 2010
Connors, Thomas. Sculpting the Landscape, Town & Country: Special Travel Issue, April 2010
Leffingwell, Edward. Steve Tobin at OK Harris, Art in America, June/ July 2006.
Kennedy, Randy. Uprooted in the Attacks, Now Planted in Bronze, The New York Times, July 6, 2005
Clifford, Caroline. Our Deepest Roots, Daily News, September 11, 2005
Zackowitz, Margaret G., A Growing Remembrance, National Geographic, August 2005
Wallach, Amei. Back to Nature, Smithsonian, June 2004 vol 35, #3
Goodale, Gloria. The Roots of his Art, The Christian Scientist Monitor, October 18, 2002
Uslan, Rachel. Termites and Roots, but It’s No Problem, Los Angeles Times, October 2002
Cheek, Erika. Preserving a Bug’s Life, Newsweek, November 6, 2000