Stephen Westfall (b. 1953) received his MFA in 1978 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His first solo show was at Tracey Garet in New York’s East Village in 1984. Exhibitions followed during the 1980s and ’90s at Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York; Galerie Paal, Munich, Germany; Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York; and Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France. Westfall has been represented by Lennon, Weinberg since 1997 and has had eight exhibitions there. He has recently exhibited with David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe and Robishon Gallery in Denver, and collaborated with Polly Apfelbaum on projects for Clement & Schneider in Germany and The Suburban in Milwaukee. He installed his first monumental wall paintings at Solvent Space in Richmond, Virginia in 2007, followed by others at the American Academy in Rome in 2010, and a permanent work installed at the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 2014. An exhibition at Art OMI in 2014 featured two very large wall paintings. He was commissioned by the Museum of Art, Architecture and Design at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2015 to create a permanent outdoor wall painting and a second large work for the museum’s Nachman Gallery. A wall painting installation in the AT&T Lobby at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas was on view for a year through 2016. His MTA Arts and Design commission opened in June 2018 at the 30th Avenue Station in Astoria, Queens. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kemper Museum, the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, the Munson Williams Proctor Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the UBS Art Collection. Westfall has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He received a Rome Prize Fellowship and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome during 2009 and 2010. He is a professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and in the graduate program at Bard University. He is a Contributing Editor at Art in America.