Steven Gagnon

Steven D. Gagnon was born in Fort Pierce, Florida in 1973. He studied in Europe for over a year while attending Pepperdine University. Upon his return to the United States, he studied for three years under artist, Natalie Nijinski. At age 22, he was granted an artist residency at Art Center South Florida in Miami Beach. Since 2005, this Miami based artist has created large scale multi-media works, interdisciplinary video installations in addition to his work in painting, printmaking, and sculpture in Berlin and New York City as well as his hometown.
To date, he has created five projects which he has shown at various venues including both 2008 Presidential Conventions, the Fotofest bienniel in Houston, and art fairs in Miami, New York City, Palm Beach, and in the German cities of Berlin and Cologne.
Over the last decade, Gagnon has exhibited his work in group shows in museums throughout the country including: the Naples Museum of Art, the Palm Springs Desert Museum, the Bladen Memorial Art Museum, the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of South Texas, and the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science. His art has been the focus of a feature article in the Miami NewTimes, written up in Wall Street Journal, published in Harpers Magazine, appeared in the Washington Post, illustrated the front page of Financial Times, printed in the literary journal of the Henry Miller Library, and discussed in numerous online art periodicals and blogs such as ArtNet.com and ArtInfo.com.
Gagnon’s work is in public and corporate collections, including: the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C.; the Art Museum of South Texas; UMB Bank; InterBank Collection; Patrizia Grundbesitz GmbH & Co. Kg.; and American Bank, as well as, in private collections including: Jean Cherqui, art collector; Steven J. Green, former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore; Richard Shack, art collector; Andrew Tobias, author; and Shaun Woodward, Member of British Parliament.