'PTERIDOMANIA #5' - Spray Paint on Bristol with UV Varnish

BIOGRAPHY

Steven L. Anderson is an Atlanta-based artist, curator, and Co-Director of Day & Night Projects, an artist-run gallery in Atlanta that he helped originate in 2016. He is also a founding artist member of Uncool Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

Anderson is a graduate of the University of Michigan and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States since 1996. His artworks are found in the Microsoft Art Collection, the Tim & Lauren Schrager Collection, and in collections of Fulton County Public Arts, Coca-Cola Inc., Emory University Hospitals, the National Park Service, and others. Anderson’s sketchbooks are in the permanent collection of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University.

Anderson is a recent recipient of the 2023 Idea Capital grant, and a two-time winner of the Artists Project Grant from the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Recent residencies include Uncool International Artist Residency in Brooklyn, NY; Artist-in-Residence at Yes We Cannibal in Baton Rouge, LA, and at Atlanta’s Blue Heron Nature Preserve. He was a recipient of the 2019 Denis Diderot [A-i-R] Grant at Château d’Orquevaux Artist Residency in Orquevaux, France. Anderson was a TAR Project Therapeutic Artist Resident in 2016–17, has been a Studio Artist at Atlanta Contemporary (2013–16), a 2015 Hambidge Center Distinguished Fellow, and a 2014–15 WonderRoot Walthall Artist Fellow.