Scott Anderson

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson, a white man with light skin, short brown hair and a beard wears glasses and a plaid shirt, standing in front of abstract paintings in a well-lit room.

Scott Anderson received his BFA from Kansas State University, his MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Anderson is currently a Professor of Painting and Drawing at University of New Mexico. His most recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Biotech at Denny Dimin Gallery (New York), Streaming by Lamp and by Fire at Denny Gallery (New York), Lovers and Thinkers at Galerie Richard (Paris, France), and Supper Club at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS), among others. Anderson has participated in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL), the Parrish Art Museum (Water Mill, NY), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), the Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), and Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago, IL). Anderson is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and The William and Dorothy Yeck Award. His work has been featured in numerous publications including Artforum, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Art Maze Magazine, and New American Paintings.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2024

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Painting is an act that marks how it feels for me to be making something in the world at a given moment. My paintings are material negotiations between the perception of the exterior world and my own interiority.”