Stephen Burt

Stephen Burt, B.F.A., M.F.A.

Professor of Art

Location

Arts Building 221
Biddeford Campus

Stephen Burt is a painter and printmaker. He was born in Deland, Florida in 1962, and was educated at Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1987) and SUNY Purchase (MFA 1991). Burt has exhibited in both international and national venues including most recently at the Bristol Art Museum-Bristol, RI, Zero Station-Portland, ME, the LC Bates Museum-Hinckley, ME, and the Aomori Municipal Art Pavilion, Aomori, Japan. .

Burt’s work has been acquired for inclusion in many public collections, including those of the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Portland Museum of Art, the Fogg Museum at Harvard, the New York Public Library, and the Library of Congress. Burt’s work has been supported by awards from numerous institutions, among them, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and the Ruth Chenven Foundation, as well as multiple faculty development grants from the University of New England. A member of Peregrine Press in Portland, Maine, Stephen Burt is a Professor of Art in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of New England. He is the recipient of UNE’s 2024 Ludcke Chair Award.

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