Education

1998

Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Painting, Graphic Design, and Printmaking

1993

Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan: Communication Theory

Awards/Residencies

2024

Idea Capital Grant, Atlanta, GA

2023

Uncool Artist Residency Fall 2023, Brooklyn, NY

2022

Artist Project Grant, City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA

Artist in Residence, Yes We Cannibal, Baton Rouge, LA

2021

Artist in Residence, Blue Heron Nature Preserve, Atlanta, GA

2019

Denis Diderot [A-i-R] Grant, Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist Residency, Orquevaux, France

2018

Artist Project Grant, City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA

Fine Art Acquisition Program, Fulton County Arts and Culture, Atlanta, GA

2016–17

Artist in Residence, TAR Project, Atlanta, GA

2015

Distinguished Fellow, Fulton County Residency Fellowship, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA

2014–15

Walthall Artist Fellowship, Wonderroot, Atlanta, GA

2013–16

Studio Artist Program, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

2011

Artist-in-Residence, Joshua Tree National Park, Joshua Tree, CA

2000

Print Magazine Regional Design Award, for Cakewalk Magazine, Midwest finalist

Notable Collections

Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA and Washington DC

Coca-Cola Inc., Atlanta, GA

Fulton County Public Arts, Fulton County, GA

Emory University Hospitals

Emory Winship Cancer Center, Atlanta, GA

Steven L. Anderson Notebooks, 1993–2015, Emory University Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Atlanta, GA

Tim & Lauren Schrager Collection, Atlanta, GA

National Park Service, Joshua Tree, CA

Solo and 2-person Exhibitions & Performances

2025

Upcoming solo exhibition, Uncool Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2024

Entropy Plan for the Western Fam, Lyndon House Gallery, Athens, GA

2023

The Message, Good News Arts, High Springs, FL

In Light with In Kyoung Chun, Spruill Gallery, Dunwoody, GA

How to Know the Ferns, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA

2022

Thinking Like a Mountain, Gallery 1740, Atlanta, GA

Entropy Plan for the Western Fam, Yes We Cannibal, Baton Rouge, LA

Story Lines, Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art, Augusta University, Augusta, GA (2-person show with Dayna Thacker)

2021

Shared History, Blue Heron Nature Preserve, Atlanta, GA

2018

Grass Roots, Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA

2016

Studio Artist Wall, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

2014

Leaves of Grass, {Poem 88}, Atlanta, GA (2-person show with Susan Hable Smith)

2013

Energy Strategies, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

Power Plant, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2011

An Evening of Natural and Artificial Sounds, Joshua Tree National Park, Joshua Tree, CA

2009

We Grow by Searching, Moorpark College Gallery, Moorpark, CA

2008

The Dignity of Living Beings: Steven L. Anderson, A Solo Show, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions & Performances

2025

Upcoming: Perpetual Shifts, COS Art Gallery, College of the Sequoias, Visalia, CA

2024

One Earth, Our Shared Planet, The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

Narratives, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA

Summer Invitational, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Pressing, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, Reston, VA

2023

Falling Leaves from Babel, Uncool Artist, Brooklyn, NY

Tribute Show for Alexander Dreher, AKA DEADO, Echo Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

Exquisite Corpse II, The Art Section

Offerings, organized & curated by Jacob O’Kelley, Atlanta, GA

Gathered VI, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA

The Earth is a Time Machine, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN

Leafy Greens, Gallery Walk at Terminus, Atlanta, GA

Rituals, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN

Materia Prima, Arts Southeast/Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA

ArtFields 2023, Lake City ArtFields Collective, Lake City, SC

Capitol Offense, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA, curated by Yes We Cannibal

Drawing Discourse: 14th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC

2022

South River Review, South River Arts Studios, Atlanta, GA

Feels Like Summer, Peachtree Gallery—Fulton County Public Art Program, Atlanta, GA

_____ The World, Gallery 378, Atlanta, GA

2021

Wonder: A Small Works Exhibition, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA

To Get to the Other Side: Death and Time Travel, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN

Circle 2021, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea

Fantastical, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA

The E Corpse: Nine Exquisite Corpses, The Art Section (theartsection.com/parlato-heerkens-anderson)

Online Flat File, Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2020

Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia: Cut & Paste, Works of Paper, Telfair Museum of Art’s Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA

Forward, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA

2nd Annual Summer Invitational, MINT, Atlanta, GA

Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia: Cut & Paste, Works of Paper Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA

ArtFields 2020, ArtFields, Lake City, SC

Flat File, Camayuhs, Atlanta, GA

2019

Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia: Cut & Paste, Works of Paper, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA

Passage, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA

High Rise Show, Showerhaus, Atlanta, GA

From the Artist’s Collection, MINT, Atlanta, GA

Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia: Cut & Paste, Works of Paper, Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia: Cut & Paste, Works of Paper, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA

The New South IV, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA

Flat File Program, The Mast, Atlanta, GA

All Together Now!, All Together Now Gift Shop & Community Space, Atlanta, GA

Turn Again to the Earth, Gainey Hall Gallery, Art Farm at Serenbe, Chattahoochee Hills, GA

A Web of Artists: Friends from Social Networks, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

Soft Science, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA

The Art of Protest, The Bakery, Atlanta, GA

MINT @ Legacy Law, MINT, Atlanta, GA

Fine Art Acquisition Program Exhibition, Fulton County Arts and Culture, Atlanta, GA

2018

Radiate, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA

Little Things, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA

The New South III, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA

Sign of the Times, Weave Shed Gallery at Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA

Curatorial Hub Launch, Bestor Architecture, Los Angeles, CA

supermoon, SOUP Experimental, Tallahassee, FL

2017

Arboreal, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

40 Over 40, EBD4, Chamblee, GA

BrightHouse Inaugural Exhibit, MINT, Atlanta, GA

Parallels: Unfolding Space, Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA

Parallels: Holding Space, J. Gallery at Binders Ponce City Market, Atlanta, GA

The Reroute, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL

2016

From Little Things, Big Things Grow, Southwest Arts Center, Fulton County, GA

Color ATL Exhibition, Ponce City Market Gallery, Atlanta, GA

The Voice Never Sleeps, Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA

Hot Combos, Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

Roger, Roger. What’s Our Vector, Victor?, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA

Pitchtree, Peachtree, Nickel Bottom, too, {Poem 88}, Atlanta, GA (featured performance in Meredith Kooi’s solo show)

The New South, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA

I FUCKING L*** YOU TOO, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Selections from the Studio Artists Program, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

2015

Little Things Mean A Lot, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA

J1, ATHICA, Athens, GA

Portalism, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA

Gathered: Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA

2014

B & W, {Poem 88}, Atlanta, GA

Little Things Mean A Lot, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Joshua Tree National Park Art Exposition, 29 Palms Art Gallery, 29 Palms, CA

Exquisite Exhibit, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA (a collaboration with Mark Leibert and Craig Dongoski)

Monotonic Surfaces, apexart, New York, NY (collaborative performance with Karl Erickson)

Veneralia: Enlighten, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

2013

Word!, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center at the Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA

Leap Year Applicant Exhibition, MINT, Atlanta, GA

2012

Perpetual Art Machine Video Mixer, Kill Your Idol, Miami Beach, FL

Mark di Suvero’s Artists’ Tower of Protest, West Hollywood, CA

Transmission LA: AV Club, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, (with KCHUNG Radio 1630AM, in Public Fiction’s The Club)

KCHUNG @ Ooga Booga, KCHUNG Radio 1630AM, Los Angeles, CA

Water Week, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

Mystical Pilgrimage, Xhurch, Portland, OR (a collaboration with Signify, Sanctify, Believe)

2011

Signify, Sanctify, Believe, The Free Church of Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA (as Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc., a collaboration with Tom McKenzie)

The Library of Sacred Technologies, The Free Church of Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA

House Blessing, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY (as Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc.)

2010

TBA Video Show, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The Eternal Telethon: Infinity + 24, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA, (as Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc.)

Monster Drawing Rally, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Driven by What’s Inside, Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA (as Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc., in collaboration with Elana Mann)

A Hammer Dream-In, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, (as Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc.)

An artSpa Energy Assessment of the Hammer, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (as Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc.)

Actions, Conversations & Intersections, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009

Black & White, Bughouse, Los Angeles, CA

The Abstract Truth, Roark, Los Angeles, CA

2008

Exchange Rate: 2008/Conventions & Attitudes, Remy’s on Temple, Los Angeles, CA

Habeas Lounge/Conventions & Attitudes, City University of New York, New York, NY

Sea and Space Resort, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA

Intersection 2008, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock/ Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

My Footnote to David Askevold, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (as Fat Farmer Bob and his Colourful Crazy Beard)

Household Revisited: Peaceniks, Treehuggers and other Believers—a Reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s ‘Household’ (1964/2008), MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (organized by Robby Herbst and presented by Outpost for Contemporary Art)

Video Open Mic, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (as Fuz Fōn, a collaboration with Jonathan Mead-Crenshaw)

2007

Monster Drawing Rally, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Picnic Apparitions, Park Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2006

Street Signs and Solar Ovens: Socialcraft in Los Angeles, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

The Fairy Ring Happening for Peace, Silverwood, Los Angeles, CA

Civic Matters, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (collaboration with The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest)

2005

Post-Postcard 2005, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (collaboration with Karl Erickson)

Our Bodies, Ourselves, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA

2004

VERSION>04: invisibleNetworks, Buddy, Chicago, IL

My Secret Valentine, icespace, Los Angeles, CA

Three Day Extravaganza, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA

2003

Department of Space and Land Reclamation – West, Balazo/Mission Badlands Gallery, San Francisco, CA (curated by Nato Thompson)

Becoming Series, Acorn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002

The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Benefit Auction, C-Level, Los Angeles, CA

2001

Department of Space and Land Reclamation, The Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL (as Fuz Fōn, curated by Nato Thompson)

The Outer Space Show, WLUW Radio, 88.7FM, Chicago, IL (as Fuz Fōn)

2000

Multiples 4, Bodybuilder & Sportsman, Chicago, IL (as Fuz Fōn)

Future Home of Luxury, 1452 Vacant Lot, Chicago, IL

Video Artists, Sixspace Gallery, Chicago, IL (as Fuz Fōn)

Cakewalk Magazine Release Party, Arena Gallery, Chicago, IL (as Fuz Fōn)

Wish You Were Here, Embassy Suites, Chicago, IL (as Fuz Fōn)

Bookmarks 8, NIU Gallery, Chicago, IL

Counter Productive Industries, 1926 Space, Chicago, IL (as Fuz Fōn, curated by Nato Thompson)

Something Else, WLUW Radio, 88.7FM, Chicago, IL (as Fuz Fōn)

Bibliography

2024

2023

2022

378 Gallery exhibit takes idea of forbidden expletives to unexpected heights, ArtsATL

Entropy Plan for the Western Fam, self-published booklet

2021

2020

Pattern, episode of GSUTV’s Artem (exerpt)

The Journey of an Artist: Meet Steven L. Anderson, Journey to Jupiter Podcast

2019

Review: In “Cut and Paste,” 11 artists score, twist, cast and rub paper in inventive ways, ArtsATL

New four-floor exhibit celebrates Georgia artists, WSB-TV Atlanta

Steven L. Anderson: Grass Roots, self-published exhibition catalogue

2018

2017

40 Over 40 at EBD4, Furious Dreams art blog by Victoria Webb

New Paths Forward: Day & Night Projects at Tempus Projects, Creative Loafing Tampa

Art x ATL, Audi Magazine, No. 112.

Parallels: Unfolding Spaces – featuring artist Julie L. Sims, Planetfancy

Spotlight: Interview with the Atlanta TAR (Therapeutic Artist Residency) participants, Creative Thresholds

The TAR Manifesto, Floromancy

Trees May Be Removed, self-published booklet

The Voice Never Sleeps, Floromancy

2016

2015

2014

2013

2011

High Desert Peace Pipe, High Desert Test Sites 2011 Catalog (a collaboration with Llano del Rio Collective)

2010

Actions, Conversations & Intersections, exhibition catalog, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

2008

Antiwar Surveys: Artists At War, The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #6

2007

A Fairy Ring Happening for Peace Calls on Muses, The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #5

2004

Art Events Sweep Northeast L.A, Los Angeles Times, pg. B3, October 10, 2004

October Surprise: Creative Interventions & Underground Politics in NE LA, Arroyo Arts Collective Newsletter, Sept./Oct. 2004

Cakewalk Magazine issue 6 (Co-Publisher)

2003

Cakewalk Magazine issue 5 (Co-Publisher)

2001

Music Reviews, Lumpen #83

The Garden, Bridge Magazine #3 (as Fuz Fōn)

Voice Trail, Sonicate Records (as Fuz Fōn)

Curatorial Projects

Present–2016

Day & Night Projects artist-run gallery, Atlanta, GA (Co-Founder and Co-Director)

2021

The Art of Nature—Into the Wild, Blue Heron Nature Center, Atlanta, GA

2008

Artists At War, online art gallery: www.artists-at-war.com, (a collaboration with Tom McKenzie)

2007

Picnic Apparitions, Park Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2006

The Fairy Ring Happening for Peace, Silverwood, Los Angeles, CA

2004

October Surprise: Creative Interventions and Underground Politics in Northeast Los Angeles, Acorn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2000

Future Home of Luxury, 1452 Vacant Lot, Chicago, IL


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