Steven Biller

Strategy and Storytelling for the Arts and Culture Sector

Steven Biller is the former longtime editor-in-chief of Palm Springs Life magazine, a National City & Regional Magazine Award winner for General Excellence, and a consultant who elevates artists, nonprofit arts and culture organizations, and the creative economy through innovative, outcome-driven ideas and actions. He lives in Palm Springs, California.

  • Pepe Serna | Life is Art

    Spring 2023

  • Icons: Paintings by James Egan

    2022

  • Anthony James

    Melissa Morgan Fine Art

    2020

  • David Einstein: A 50-Year Retrospective

    Triton Museum of Art

    2018

  • Can Artists Save the Salton Sea

    The creative set on Bombay Beach might be charting the course.

    Palm Springs Life

  • Real Close (and Way Out)

    Ken Layne’s strange and wonderful Desert Oracle magazine and radio show lures followers into the deep, dark Mojave.

    Palm Springs Life

  • 50 Moments That Shaped Greater Palm Springs

    Since the Southern Pacific Railroad put down tracks in the desert, pioneers and visionaries have been working hard to make Greater Palm Springs the idyllic destination the world knows today.

    Palm Springs Life

  • Highwire Days

    Life is a balancing act for Rich Good, the Twentynine Palms-based graphic designer, entrepreneur, and guitarist for The Psychedelic Furs.

    Palm Springs Life

  • Slowing Things Down

    In Palm Springs, Robert Longo finds an escape from the “image storm” that drives his art.

    Palm Springs Life

  • Hot Seats

    The Modern Chair exhibition expresses how design reflects the way we live.

    Palm Springs Life

  • California Love

    A shared passion for historic landscape Paintings of the Golden State nourishes a couple’s relationship.

    Palm Springs Life

  • Making a Mark

    In the quiet solitude of the desert, landscape painter Eric Merrell finds his voice.

    Palm Springs Life

  • The Interventionist

    Trips through Southern California wastelands led John Divola to the Whitney Biennial.

    Palm Springs Life

  • The Big Reveal

    A 40-year survey of Sam Francis paintings packs color, action, and a space to enter the sublime.

    Palm Springs Life

  • Come On, Get Happy

    Jim Isermann’s wildly bright, sun-shine-y approach to abstraction nods to the modernism of midcentury Palm Springs.

    Palm Springs Life

  • 23 and Me

    African American homesteaders landed in the Mojave Desert a century ago. Now, artist Barbara Gothard is introducing you to their community through her work.

    Palm Springs Life

Consulting for the Arts

I collaborate with nonprofit arts and culture organizations on strategic planning, audience development, market research and analysis, fundraising and promotional campaigns, marketing and community relations, and publications including annual reports, impact studies, and event programs.

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Clients

Current and recent

  • art ltd.
  • boxoPROJECTS
  • California Desert Arts Council
  • Culturas Music + Arts
  • David Einstein (artist)
  • Desert Plein Air Association
  • Desert X
  • Firebrand Media
  • Goldenvoice (Coachella festival)
  • Heather James Fine Art
  • Inland Empire Community Foundation
  • Intersect Art + Design
  • James Egan (artist)
  • Joshua Tree National Park Association
  • Melissa Morgan Fine Art
  • OLTRE Magazine
  • Orange County Register
  • Palm Springs Architectural Alliance
  • Palm Springs Art Museum
  • Palm Springs Center for Creativity
  • Pebble Beach Company
  • Pepe Serna (actor)
  • Visit Greater Palm Springs
  • Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts