11 Facts About Stephen Westfall

When Stephen Westfall was an adolescent, he was fascinated by the social spaces created by architecture.

Stephen Westfall later received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Stephen Westfall has continued to write art criticism after he moved to New York, beginning with Arts Magazine in 1981.

Stephen Westfall's paintings have charted a course between post-minimalist geometries and a Pop inflected awareness of a painting as a thing in the world.

In 2018, Stephen Westfall worked closely with Queens-based glass fabricator Depp Glass to create the 47 laminated glass panels installed at the 30 Ave Subway Station in New York City.

Stephen Westfall's writing has appeared in Art in America, Vogue, Flash Art, New York, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Arts Magazine, ARTnews, Partisan Review, and The New Criterion.

Stephen 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.

Stephen Westfall received a Rome Prize Fellowship and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome during 2009 and 2010.

Stephen Westfall has been a professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University since 2005, and a tenured professor since 2010.

Stephen Westfall was painting chair at Bard University's Milton Avery School of the Arts for a number of years and now serves as a lecturer.

Stephen Westfall is a Contributing Editor at Art in America.