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Born in 1967 in Stafford, England.
Lives and works in Athens, Greece.

Education
1989   
BA (hons.) Degree in Fine Art (painting), Wimbledon School of Art, London.  Fielders Prize for best degree show.
1986      
Foundation Course, Stafford College of Further Education.

Solo Shows
2018
Love Poems, AD Gallery, Athens GR
2017
Steven C. Harvey. Drawings and Paintings, Centre Culturel Jean-Cocteau, Les Lilas FR
2014
Vehicles, AD Gallery, Athens GR
2012
Steven C. Harvey - Old Age, Elika Gallery, Athens GR
Steven C. Harvey – Vehicles, Musée D’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg
2008 
Vehicles, Agathi Gallery, Athens GR
1996 
A.I.R Studios, London UK

Group Shows
2017
On a Small Scale: Pop-Up Show, AD Gallery, Athens GR
Art Facing the Ruins, AD Gallery, Athens GR
MUDIA: Critique of the Mass Media, "Karatransavaguardia and friends" group, "Francisco de Miranda" Cultural Space of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Greece, Athens GR
2016
Swab on Paper, AD Gallery's booth (Athens), Swab Barcelona, Barcelona ES
Drawing Now Paris, AD Gallery’s booth, Paris FR
2015
When Counter Culture Meets Society, AD Gallery, Athens GR
2014
Drawing Now Paris, AD Gallery's booth (Athens), Paris FR
Art Rotterdam, AD Gallery's booth (Athens), Rotterdam NL
2013
Scream now while you can still breathe-Irrational Navigations, AD Gallery, Athens GR
Art International, AD Gallery's booth (Athens), Istanbul TR
Viewing Room, All Visual Arts Gallery, London UK
Visions: an Atmosphere of Change, Marta Herford Museum, Herford DE
Between the Lines, All Visual Arts Gallery, London UK
2012
AD Gallery’s booth at Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul TR
Counter Culture: The emergence of a new social subject 1983-2010, CAMP-Contemporary Art Meeting Point, Athens GR
Now and Then II, Harris Lindsay, London UK
2011
I've Dreamt About, Musée D’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg
A Rock and a Hard Place, 3rd Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki GR
2010   
Le Meilleur des Mondes, Musée D’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg
Locus Solus, Benaki Museum, Athens GR
2009   
T-Tris, B.S.P 22 Contemporary Art Space, Charleroi, Belgium
2008   
Art Athina International Contemporary Art Fair, Athens GR
1999
Art For Us All, Riverside Studios, London
1998   
CBGB’s Gallery, New York USA
1996   
Agora Gallery, New York USA
1995   
Montserrat Gallery, New York USA
CSK Gallery, Eton UK
1994   
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London UK
1989
Royal Society of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London UK

Public Collections
Musée D’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece

Awards & Residencies
2011
Artist residency at Embros theatre, Athens GR
1989   
Finalist, Winsor and Newton Young Painters Award Scheme

Publications (books)
2013
Vitamin D2 – New Perspectives in Drawing, Editors of Phaidon Press, Phaidon Press, London
Visions: An Atmosphere of Change, Marta Herford gGmbH, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern (exhibition catalogue) 

Publications (press articles)
‘Steven C. Harvey’ – Sozita Goudouna, Naked But Safe, London, 02/2013
‘Building the New Tower of Babel – In Conversation with Steven C. Harvey’ – Jota Panatopoulou, QUER, Vienna 12/2012
‘The Magic Pencil of Steven C. Harvey’ – Aris Dimokidis, Lifo, Athens 10/2012
‘Aging Captured by Shading – Steven C. Harvey at Elika Gallery’ – Phoebus Sakalis, Elculture, Athens  02/10/2012
‘Steven C. Harvey Casts a Sarcastic Glance at Old Age’ - Ioanna Gomouza, Athinorama,
Athens, 26/09/2012
‘The Bogeyman of Aging’ – Giota Argyropoulou, ToSpirto, Athens, 14/09/2012
‘Future Dream – Steven C. Harvey’ – France Clarinval, Desirs, Luxembourg 6/2012
‘Portfolio: Vehicles’ – Désirs, Luxembourg 6/2012
‘A Tonic for a Stricken Nation’ –  Adrian Dannatt, The Art Newspaper, New York, 11/2011
‘The Politics of The Mediterranean Converge in Thessaloniki – Saki Apostolaki, Eleutherotypia, Athens 9/2011
‘A Rock and a Hard Place’ – Free Sunday, Athens 16/10/2011
‘Une Exposition Saute-Mouton’ – Daniele Gillemon, Le Soir, Brussels 16/9/2009
‘Michelangelo and the Angels from Hell – An Interview with Steven Harvey’ – The Dawn, Athens 04/2008
‘Steven Harvey – “I Want to  Create Art Accessible to the Man in the Street”’ – Maria Andriotis, Eleutheros Typos, Athens, 15/04/2008
‘Boy, Could They Play Guitar’ – Nick Coleman, The Independent, London 10/07/1998
‘Steven Harvey’s Surreal Painted Narratives’ –  Sean Simon, Artspeak, New York, 02/1997
‘Steven Harvey’s Complex and Profound Paintings’  -  Artspeak, New York, 1995

Radio Interviews
2008
Kokino, Athens GR
Athena 98.4 FM (Athens Municipal Radio), Athens GR

Other Activities
2004
Writes a novel, Sex-Dole, subsequently described by the London agent and former Penguin editor Peter Buckman as ‘a cracking idea’, a well-written ‘clever satire’
1998
Works with the London artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard on their live art event ‘A Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide’, at the ICA, London, taking on the role of David Bowie, in a live two-hour meticulously detailed re-enactment of Bowie’s final Ziggy Stardust concert
1992
Begins absurdist comic strips. Written in collaboration with Stephen McGonigle, these mingle the drawing style of Herge (Tintin) with a highly personal ‘surrealism’. One of the strips evolves into a full-length graphic novel.