Eddy Steinhauer is a multidisciplinary visual artist and curator based in Berlin, Germany. With an MA from Central Washington University and an MFA from the Yale School of Art and Architecture (1997), he has held teaching and lecturing positions at institutions such as Colgate College, Hudson County Community College, Montclair State University, and Stevens Institute of Technology. He is currently a sculpture professor at Bard College Berlin.  

Steinhauer’s work interrogates the entanglements of history, politics, and the shifting realities of Blackness in contemporary society. Drawing from science fiction, mythology, and cultural memory, his sculptures, installations, and mixed-media assemblages reframe the narratives that have long defined and constrained perceptions of the Black body. Through a fusion of digital media, found objects, and traditional sculptural techniques, he forges visually arresting works that confront dominant histories while gesturing toward radical, expansive futures.

His art resists rigid categorization, focusing not on singular identity but on the shared complexities of struggle, resilience, and transformation. Blending personal and collective memory, he constructs layered visual languages that bridge past and future—where absence, power, and agency intersect. At times violent and at others deeply poetic, his work invites reflection on the systems that shape us and the spaces where reinvention becomes possible.  

Steinhauer’s work has been exhibited in major institutions, including The International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC; The Black History Museum in Richmond, VA; The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami, FL; The McKenna Museum of African-American Art in New Orleans, LA; The Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art in Brooklyn, NY; Teckningsmuseet in Laholm, Sweden; and The Grand Rapids Art Museum in Grand Rapids, MI. His contributions to contemporary art continue to push boundaries, offering nuanced perspectives on the shifting landscapes of identity, history, and representation.