stevie gunter manifests the mischief of rhythmic energy with an irreverence for genre, a devotion to groove, a worship of motif across disciplines. their artistic practice explores embodiment and memory via sound, movement, and tattooing. from the United States' southern regions of the black diaspora, gunter is a composer, selector and designer based in Berlin.

Education

2020 University of Denver, MLIS, Archives

2017 Northern Arizona University, BA, Sociology + German

AIR/Artist in Residency

2023-2025. Phantom Archives Studio. Denver, CO, USA.

Performance

-We Are (nothing) Everything. Live sound accompaniment.

  • 2025.

  • 2024. Seattle Festival of Dance and Improvisation. Seattle, WA, USA.

  • 2024. OUTsider Fest. Austin, TX, USA.

  • 2024. Tanztage, Berlin, DE.

  • 2023. University of Colorado Boulder. Boulder, CO, USA.

-s.t3v. Live composition.

  • 2024-2025. Breakeven Productions. Denver, CO, USA.

  • 2022-2024. Underground Music Showcase. Denver, CO, USA

  • 2024. Denver Short Film Festival. Denver, CO, USA.

  • 2024. Sofar Sounds. Denver, CO, USA.

  • 2023. Denver Botanic Gardens: Evenings Al Fresco. Denver, CO, USA.

  • 2022. Denver Museum of Contemporary Art: B-Side Music Fridays. Denver, CO, USA.

  • 2022. Camp Dyketopia. Denver, CO, USA.

-2025 Machete Mouth Tour. Live composition. Seattle, WA, USA. Portland, OR, USA.

-2024 Fragment/Red Lines. Ensemble choreography. Denver, CO, USA.

-2024 Sorbet. Duet choreography. Denver, CO, USA.

-2024 Felicity. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Ensemble choreography. Boulder, CO, USA.

-2024 Mother Earth is Burning. History Colorado Center. Ensemble choreography. Denver, CO, USA.

-2023 Meltdown. Live skin marking. Denver, CO, USA.

-2023 Strange Natures. Live sound accompaniment. Aurora, CO, USA.

Collaborations/Commissioned Work (selection)

-2025 Tanz im August. Sound curation. Hebbel am Ufer.

-2025 Con Amor. Graphic design. Con Amor.

-2025. Channel 52. Sound curation. Manos Sagrados.

-2025. Vogue Nights. Sound curation. Charlies Denver.

-2025 Field Trip. Sound composition. Control Group Productions.

-2025 Castle Falls IV. Sound composition. Caroline Sharkey.

-2024 Spin Zone. Graphic design. Spin Zone.

-2024 Tanz im August. Sound curation. Hebbel am Ufer.

-2024 Tanztage. Sound curation. Tanztage Berlin.

-2024 Grief & Death. Sound composition. Queer Death and Grief Meetup.

-2023 Strange Natures. Sound Composition. Control Group Productions.

Exhibitions/Installations (selection)

-2025 Field Trip! Echoes. Colfax and Florence. Aurora, CO, USA.

-2024 Danceportation. Meow Wolf. Denver, CO, USA.

-2023 Unthreaded. Denver Art Museum. Denver, CO, USA.

Presentations/Talks

-2022 Guitar Sessions. Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

-2021 Preserving Black Western Legacies. Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists Conference. University of Northern Colorado.

-2019 "Trolling for New Utopias": Reframing how we archive queer media. Guest Lecture. University of Denver.

-2018 Memes as Praxis. Guest Lecture. Northern Arizona University.

Publications

-2018 Black Subjectivities in Bloom: The Prosumption of Afro-German Discourse After the 1980s. Lacunae: An Undergraduate Journal for Queer of Color Critique