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John Steck Jr. is the Photography Coordinator & Instructor for the Center of Visual Arts at Johns Hopkins University.

Steck is a first-generation graduate from Chicago, IL, who received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design. He also earned a Professional Program Certificate from the New England School of Photography, and before that, attended Wright Community College in Chicago.

Steck is a maker of photographic images and ephemeral objects. Through the use of light-sensitive imagery and emulsions, he creates photographs that both fade and form over time. This work addresses our complex relationship with time, memory, and impermanence, and how photography attempts to deal with such themes.

Steck has exhibited across twenty states and six countries. His most recent exhibition, Diurne in Blue, was part of the 2021 Terrain Biennial, where he showcased three Long Duration Cyanotypes at a public garden in Springfield, IL. He has been included in over fifty publications, including a feature in Art21 Magazine as part of an article on the ephemeral nature of art. Steck has attended artist residencies in Iceland, Ireland, Canada, and throughout the states. He received a Fellowship Award from the Vermont Studio Center in 2016 and was also a recipient of the IAP grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs in 2018.