Recent
Good Bad Books?, Barbican Library, 16 September 2023
I am carried along down the stream. Personeelskamer, Amsterdam, 30 June 2023
STRIKE. Book Launch, Presse Books Fair, London, 17 June 2023
Buried Zine Compendium. Book Launch, Tenderbooks, 14 March 2023
Leeds Artists Show. Leeds Art Gallery, 15 February - 30 April 2023
The Advantages of Being Boneless and Incomplete. Banner Repeater, London, 13 January - 30 April 2023
‘Roy Claire Potter: Land Lay Moldbrest • David Steans: Mummy Hood Nesting Forest’, Art Monthly, Dec-Jan 22-23 Issue
Exhibitions
Mummy Hood Nesting Forest. Commission, Primary, Nottingham, 2022 [online]
RATS IN THE HOSPITAL, Screw Gallery, Leeds (2022)
3 Animates. 1 Thoresby Street, Nottingham (2021)
Come Together. Workplace Gallery, Gateshead/London [online] (2021)
Ecstatic Rituals. Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2019)
Necrotic Biography Room. Pavilion, Leeds (2019)
AS MUCH ABOUT FORGETTING. Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark (2018)
APPAREL. Division of Labour, Manchester (2018)
DEPTFORD X. Platform Commission, Deptford X Festival, London (2018)
Lecture Theatre. CAVE, University of Leeds (2018)
MANTEL. Copperfield Gallery, London (2018)
Library Interventions: Moving Knowledge. Leeds Arts University (2018)
The Kippenberger Challenge. De Appel Art Institut Library, Amsterdam (2018)
Medieval City-One. 2 Queens, Leicester (2017)
TERRAFORMERS. Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University (2016)
SCHOOL OF THE DAMNED: SNAKE HORSE GOAT MONKEY. Guest Projects, London (2016)
Mood Board. À CÔTÉ DU 69, Nantes (2016)
Mega Armageddon Death - Long Version. Art Rotterdam, Netherlands (2016)
A BRITISH ART SHOW. Meyohas, Manhattan (2015)
Display Show. Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2015)
Collections and Collaborations. The Tetley, Leeds (2015)
I’MTen. IMT Gallery, London (2015)
Events
Show and Share: Visions of the Occult. Tate Britain, 19 November 2022
Documents of Contemporary Art: Magic. Book launch, 18 May 2021 [online]
Re-shift, Re-calibrate. Pavilion, Leeds [online], 10 - 17 August 2020
Fieldwork, Haarlem Artspace, 24 August 2019
Shady Tod III. Magic City, Todmorden, 2 September 2018
Gruesome FX. Triangle Arts, Brooklyn, 25 May 2018
Stories from the Sculpture City. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 8 February 2017
Crime World. The Tetley, Leeds, 29 March 2017
Radiophrenia Festival. Radio Broadcast, Glasgow, 29 August - 11 September 2016
The Other Room. Manchester, 6 December 2017
North by North West Poetry Tour. York City Screen, 13 January 2017
Publications
‘Decade of the Damned: Notes on School of the Damned 2013-2023’ published in: Cooperative Education, Politics and Art: Creative, Critical, and Community Resistance to Corporate Higher Education, Routledge (2024)
‘In Conversation: Hardeep Pandhal and David Steans’ published in: Hardeep Pandhal: Inheritance Quest, Black Dog Press (2024)
Ma go est… un bigorneau ?!?, Hardeep Pandhal, Leomi Sadler, David Steans, Les Lilas (2023)
‘Curtainz’ published in: Documents of Contemporary Art: Magic, Whitechapel Gallery & MIT Press (2021)
‘Hardeep’s Egg’, Hardeep Pandhal and David Steans, published in: Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 13 (1), (2021)
‘Brittany’s Final Assignment’, published to accompany Confessions of a Thug: Pakiveli, Tramway (2020)
‘Gravediggers’ published in: The Graveside Orations of Carl Einstein, Ma Bibliothèque (2019)
From the Lounge, David Steans, Deptford X (2018)
‘Funeral Designer’ published in: The Other Room Anthology 10, The Other Room Press (2018)
‘Letter #2 (Gratitude)’ published in: Cadavere Quotidiano, Project X Foundation (2014)
Sound
When a Troll Stabs You in Dreams it Really Happens Vol. 1 [Stray Dogs] (2021)
Goth Pub, various titles [self-released, Soundcloud] (2016—)
Towed, Exit Bag [Stolen Head, Bandcamp] (2021)
Our Demons & Our Demons 2, with Joseph Lewis [Art into Life; Celestialrailroad] (2017)
Press
‘Review: Leeds Artists Show’, Sean Ashton, Big Issue, April 2023 [online]
‘On Animatics: New Lifeworlds of Artist's Animation’ in Weeb Theory (Banner Repeater, 2023)
‘Roy Claire Potter: Land Lay Moldbrest • David Steans: Mummy Hood Nesting Forest’, Art Monthly, Dec-Jan 22-23
Sardonic Harmony: Dr Alex Mason in conversation with Hardeep Pandhal and David Steans, Castlefield Gallery, 11 November 2021
Sara Ramos Pinto talks to Joe Namy and David Steans, Pavilion, 6 August 2020
'On Animatics', Jamie Sutcliffe, Art Monthly, May 2020
‘Write. North. Interview with writer David Steans’, Karen Tobias-Green, The State of the Arts, 2019 [online]
'Deptford X 2018 Festival: Embodying Artists’ Concerns with Personal and Social Histories', Carrie Foulkes, a–n Magazine, 2018
'David Steans: Crime World', Beth Hughes, Corridor 8, 2017 [online]
'MEDIEVAL CITY-ONE, 2 Queens, Leicester, UK', Jamie Sutcliffe, Frieze, August 2017
‘Uncertain Ground: A British Art Show @ Meyohas Reviewed’, Frankie Archer, aqnb, 2015 [online]