Steve Beatty

Portland, Oregon

April 2, 2009 - April 28, 2009

Steven Beatty was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1966. He is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher living and working in Portland, Oregon. His work addresses environmental and social issues, and includes mixed media, sculpture, installation, public intervention, painting, digital photography, material exploration lectures and collaborations with Portland-based artist, Laurel Kurtz. He received his BA from Humboldt State University, 2002 and his MFA from Portland State University, 2006. He has shown work internationally in Liverpool UK, Ulsan Korea, and Stuttgart Germany and the west and east coasts of the United States. Beatty won the 2006 International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award in Hamilton, NJ and his work was shown in Sculpture Magazine.