Stephen Paré
Stephen Paré
Born in Ithaca, New York and currently living and working in Houston, Steve Pare is a composer and musician who is committed to exploring the interrelations between acoustic. electric, abd electronic music and live performance/art.
He has written compositions for dance companies and also plays in his own band in the Houston music scene. In his first collaboration with AlienNation Co., he created the music for PARACHUTE I, the dance concert staged by AlienNation Co. and performed by Sandra Organ and her dancers at Bayou Place. He also cowritten the score for NORTH BY SOUTH, together with Patrick Clark. The music from this dance concert was released on CD in the summer of 1998. In 1998-99, Steve collaborated with AlienNation Co, on the creation of a series of site-specific concerts/installations at Winter Street Art Center, including „East by West,“ „migbot,“ and „fishgarden.“ Starting in the summer of 1999, Steve composed the original music for AlienNation’s new dance opera MIRAK. The music will be released on CD in the course of 2000, and a recital of scenes from MIRAk will be present at the October 2000 concert of the Houston Composers Alliance (Rice Shepherd School of Music).
Over the past years, Stephen has considered himself a multidisciplinary artist who has begun to also create digital visual artworks and to write stories. He makes images, composes music – and brings them together in books and videos (e.g. „The Divers“, a book containing over 100 stories with accompanying images)
Performances
1999: Commission from AlienNation Co.: „MIRAK,“ new opera, for electronic orchestra and vocalists
Commission from Aliennation Co.: „fishgarden,“ for electronic orchestra
1998: Commission from Aliennation Co.: „Migbot,“ for electronic orchestra.
Commission from AlienNation Co.: „East by West,“ for electronic orchestra.
Commission from AlienNation Co.: „Parachute North by South“, for electronic orchestra.
Madrigal for Mandoline Quartet.
1997: Commission from AlienNation Co.: „Parachute“, for electronic orchestra and two percussionists.
Brass Quintet.
Movement for String Quartet.
Two Mirror Movements for String Quartet.
1996: Commission from Palindrome Dance Co. (Germany): (Suite for Electronic Orchestra).
Seven Songs on Texts from „The Gospel of Thomas“, for Mezzo-Soprano, Flute, Harp, and Viola.
1995: Commission from Chrysalis Dance Co.: „The Divine Woman Who Fell from the Sky“, for electronic orchestra.
String Quartet.
Nine Madrigals for String Quintet.
Anthem for String Quintet.
Movement for String Quintet.
1994: Commission from Jaguar Sun Theater Co.: „Mira Miro“ (Fibonacci Ricercars).
Four Songs for Baritone and Wind Quintet, on texts from Goethe’s „Faust“.
1993: Commission from Chrysalis Dance Co.: „Tribute“ (Suite for Saxophone, Harps, and Percussion Ensemble).
Bagatelle for String Quartet.
1992: Five or Six Variations for Marimba.
Exhibitions (recent)
February 2027: Group exhibition at Mémoire de l’Avenir Gallery, Paris.
July 2nd-27th 2026 Group exhibition at LACDA in Los Angeles.
January 30th, 2026:
‘Animalinside’. Theatrical multi-media performance commissioned by Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University. With actors (including a professional of Chinese opera), dancers, live recitation, projected video and images – and composed music. Future engagements are planned for Germany and Zagreb.
In February 2026: I appeared on a videoconference panel of artists; in April 2026 I will moderate another one in a series sponsored by the US Embassy in Uzbekistan. Presented ‘Look Homeward Angel (Seven Variations)’.
September 28, 2025 to present:
Five of my pictures were acquired by the Contemporary Arts Museum of Uzbekistan; currently being shown at the Silk Road University art museum in Samarkand. Installation view:
April – June 2025:
Hudson Guild Gallery, Manhattan, New York City. In a group show curated by Tommy Mintz and others, my picture ‘Portrait of a Lady, variant 2’ was shown.
March to June 2025:
My picture, ‘Into the Rift’ was exhibited in the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art Virtual Exhibition; also published as an NFT.
Oct 3, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025
Wild & Newfangled Techspressionism, a VR exhibition group show. https://www.mowna.org/museum/techspressionism
Curated by Cari Ann Shim Sham. Exhibited ‘I, too, Am a Cat’, also made available as an NFT.
August 7 – September 25, 2024
Techspressionism Exhibit. Kingsborough Art Museum, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
Funding provided by PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, Curated by Tommy Mintz, Giovanna Sun, Seungjin Lee and Oceana Andries.
Exhibited ‘Portrait of a Lady, variant 1’.
December 2023 – March 2024
Cyberiana, a VR Exhibition http://ergocise.com/cyberiana/index.html
My virtual gallery is on the second floor, by the “elevator”, with 18 pictures “hung”. I also moderated the panel discussion at the opening. Shown, ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Homage to Hokusai)’:
September – October, 2023
Group exhibition in Museo Crocetti, Rome, Italy, curated by Giorgio Bertozzi. Exhibited ‘Bring Back the Human’, printed on brushed aluminum.
October – November, 2022
Group exhibition at Palazzo Bembo, Venice, during the Biennale;
Showed ‘Nubibus Arduis’, printed on brushed aluminum.
September 2022 – September 2023
‘Il sacro nell’arte contemporanea’, touring to various Italian cities.
Curated by Claudio Steffanelli. Showed ‘Bring Back the Human’ on recycled wood (see above).
August, 2022
Group exhibition in Mega Art Gallery, Corchiano, Italy
Curated by Claudio Giulianelli. Exhibited ‘Miraculous Rescue of Yiannu’, printed on recycled wood.
July, 2022
Group exhibition in Studio Loreta Larkina, Campo San Stae, Venice, Italy, during the Biennale, curated by Loreta Larkina. Exhibited ‘Miraculous Rescue of Yiannu’ (See above).
June, 2022
Group exhibition in Captaloona Gallery, Madrid, Spain, curated by Claudio Giulianelli. Exhibited ‘Miraculous Rescue of Yiannu’ (See above).
May, 2022
Benefit auction for humanitarian relief for Ukraine,
Pocket Art Gallery, Rome, Italy, curated by Barbara Berardicurti.
Donated ‘Oksana Shvets, distinguished actress of the Kyiv theater, killed in her apartment by a Russian missile’, printed on recycled wood.
April/May 2022
Group exhibition on screens, M.A.D.S. Gallery, Milan, Italy and Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain. ’Empress of Aught’, digital projection.
March, 2022
Euro Expo Art Fair, booth of the Mega Art Gallery, Forlì, Italy, curated by Claudio Giulianelli. Showed ‘È Molto Particolare’, printed on recycled wood.
January/February 2022
Group exhibition in Mega Art Gallery, Corchiano, Italy, curated by Claudio Giulianelli. Exhibited ‘Empress of Aught’, printed on aluminum. (See above.)
November – December 2021
The Wrong Biennale (virtual exhibition). Pavilion: “Art was only a substitute for the Internet”. 26 images. http://artsubstitute.net/stephen.html
January – March 2021
New Digital Collage Project (virtual exhibition) Five images.