Steve Kalinda

Steve Kalinda is a London-based illustrator and digital artist known for expressive figurative work and portraiture. In 2025, he created the cover illustration for Bonnie Tsui's On Muscle (Algonquin Books). His work has shown at the Affordable Art Fair New York and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, represented by TAG Fine Arts, and has been featured in the Saatchi Art catalogue and over twenty curated collections including Best of 2026, Curator Picks: New Figurative Works, and Creative Portraits.

His current series, Rêve (French for dream), began as iPhone sketches and is refined in Photoshop and Illustrator. The work is a tribute to women's strength and a call to dream boldly, to turn imagination into something real.

Steve holds a Bachelor's degree in Films and Philosophy, and his practice draws as much from cinema and literature as from the rhythms of contemporary visual culture. He works fluidly between traditional illustration and digital media, choosing whichever moves at the speed of the idea.

For Steve, art translates light into form. A daily practice of catching the world's beauty and complexity before the original impulse fades.

Bachelor Degree in Films and Philosophy.

- Affordable Art Fair, New York, USA – 22–26 March 2023

- Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK – 3–6 November 2022, represented by TAG Fine Arts

- Digital Horizons: Contemporary Art in the Metaverse, Online – Hosted by Artspace, New York, USA,
September 2022

- QUARANTENA, London Lighthouse Gallery – May–June 2021

- Virtual Visions: Global Digital Art Showcase, Los Angeles, USA – April 2021

- London City Island Resident Art Show, London, UK – 1 February–31 March 2018, presented by
Ballymore, Arebyte, and Trinity Art Studios

- Ones to Watch, Group Exhibition by Exhibithere – 16 June–4 July 2014, 59 London Wall, EC2M 5TR

- Inner Beauty, Group Exhibition – 18–31 July 2017, Upstairs at the Ritzy, Brixton, UK

- BE BOLD, Solo Exhibition – 6–20 July 2017, Quaker Street Coffee Shop, London, UK

- On the Books, Group Exhibition – 15 November–22 December 2017, Victoria Library, London, UK

- Digital Dialogues: New Media Art Fair, San Francisco, USA – October 2019

- Pixels & Poetry, Virtual Group Exhibition – Miami, USA, January 2018