[1] She began her career as a pioneering videotape artist in Vancouver in the late seventies and evolved into creating elaborate video and multimedia installations.
[2] After returning to Montreal in 1980, her video sculptures and installations received international recognition and were included in major exhibitions and biennials.
In 2019, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art wrote that she "effectively memorialises subjects denied a common name, a concrete identity, a reasonable life.
Steinman’s artworks have been shown in exhibitions in Canada and internationally, including the biennials of Seoul, Sydney, São Paulo and Aperto in Venice, as well as exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Tate Liverpool in England, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada.
[2] In 2021, she had a show of images of flowers in various stages of their life cycles titled Keeping Time at the Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto which represents her.