Lisa Steele

Lisa Steele
Birthday Suit – with scars and defects, 1974, b/w videotape, 12 minutes on betacam Sp cassette
Born1947 (1947)
NationalityCanadian
Known forvideo art
Notable workBirthday Suit – with scars and defects, 1974 The Blood Records, written and annotated, 1997 (with Kim Tomczak)
Awards2005 Governor General's Award for Visual and Media art (with Kim Tomczak)

1993 Bell Canada Award for Video Art (with Kim Tomczak)

1993 Peter Herrndorf Media Arts Award (with Kim Tomczak)

Lisa Steele (born 1947) is a Canadian artist, a pioneer in video art, educator, curator and co-founder of Vtape in Toronto. Born in the United States, Steele moved to Canada in 1968 and is now a Canadian citizen. She has collaborated exclusively with her partner Kim Tomczak since the early 1980s.