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
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
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
2024
Upcoming solo show, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA
2023
Upcoming solo show, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA
Upcoming solo show, Good News Arts, High Springs, FL
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
2023
Upcoming–ArtFields 2023, Lake City ArtFields Collective, Lake City, SC
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)
Press
2021
Access Atlanta Podcast: Interview with Steven L. Anderson of Day and Night Projects, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cullum’s Notebook: Into the woods with natural exhibits at Blue Heron and beyond, ArtsATL
Atlanta’s art galleries: from indie to highbrow, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Blue Heron Nature Preserve’s free art show explores theme of ‘Into the Wild’, Saporta Report
The Wondrous World of Steven L. Anderson: Q & A, Kai Lin Art
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
2018
Review: Steven L. Anderson’s “Grass Roots” shows process of growth, departure, ArtsATL, by Jerry Cullum
Steven Anderson and the Amish Cleanse | Episode 40, Brain Fuzz Podcast
Meet Steven L. Anderson of Day & Night Projects in Mechanicsville and West End,VoyageATL
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
2016
2015
2014
2013
Relational Practices: Stuart Horodner and Rachel Reese on Fallen Fruit of Atlanta and Energy Strategies, Standard Means
Highlight: Steven L. Anderson’s Energy Strategies, Tha Shade
Power Power Come Give Me Some: Studio Visit With Steven L. Anderson, BURNAWAY / Bomb Magazine
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
2001
Music Reviews
Lumpen #83
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
Published Works
2022
Entropy Plan for the Western Fam, self-published booklet
2018
Steven L. Anderson: Grass Roots, self-published exhibition catalogue
2017
Trees May Be Removed, self-published booklet
The Voice Never Sleeps, Floromancy
2014
UnmonumentATL: Edward J. Snowden Park, BURNAWAY
2011
High Desert Peace Pipe, High Desert Test Sites 2011 Catalog (a collaboration with Llano del Rio Collective)
2010
I Will Absorb this World, Candy Dinner Records
2005
Gaye Agenda 2005, The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #4
2004
Cakewalk Magazine issue 6 (Co-Publisher)
2003
Cakewalk Magazine issue 5 (Co-Publisher)
2001
The Garden, Bridge Magazine #3 (as Fuz Fōn)
Voice Trail, Sonicate Records (as Fuz Fōn)
2000
Cakewalk Magazine issue 4 (Co-Publisher)
1999
Cakewalk Magazine issues 2 & 3 (Co-Publisher)