Steve Roden

While he was a student at Beverly Hills High School from 1979 to 1982, Roden started a punk rock band called the Seditionaries, who performed with bands such as Circle Jerks, T.S.O.L. and The Damned. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design (now Otis College of Art and Design) in 1986 and a Master of Fine Art from ArtCenter College of Design in 1989.

In 2013 Roden's work was featured in a two-person exhibition with Jenny Perlin at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and in a solo exhibition at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. In 2010, a mid-career survey of Roden's work was presented at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California, curated by Howard Fox. Steve Roden was also a recipient of the 2011 Artist Grant of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and of a California Community Foundation Getty Fellowship Grant. His work has been featured in many exhibitions and museums around the world.

Roden married Sari Takahashi in 1993; the couple lived in the Park La Brea section of Los Angeles. Roden was diagnosed with Early-onset Alzheimer's disease in 2017, and died at his home on September 6, 2023, at the age of 59.

This is an incomplete list.

• The Secret of Happiness (1990)
• So Delicate And Strangely Made (1993)
• Humming Endlessly in the Hush (1995)
• Translations & Articulations (1997)
• Crop Circles (1997)
• The House was Quiet and the World was Calm (1999) (with Brandon LaBelle)
• The Opening of the Field (1999) (with Brandon LaBelle)
• View (1999)
• The Radio (1999) (In Be Tween Noise)
• Four Possible Landscapes (2000)
• Forms of Paper (2001)
• Schindler House (2001)
• Japan (2001) (with Bernhard Günter)
• Winter Couplet (2002)
• Light Forms (2003)
• Speak No More About the Leaves (2003)
• Airforms (2005)
• stars of ice (2008)
• Flower & Water (2014)
• transmissions (voices of objects and skies) (2024)