Stephen Anderson received his BFA from California University Long Beach, and makes artwork from his studio in Santa Ana California. During the day he works as a  designer for the apparel industry, then pursues his artistic endeavors after work. Recent exhibits include the solo site specific installation / environment; Amusings, Hauntings, Wantings. Which included 9 videos; (6 on monitors, 3 projected,) a collaborative audio piece synched to video, fiber optic lights, kinetic, and interactive elements.

Current series is titled Material Issues, which includes found media from magazines and advertising. Stephen reinterprets such messages of consumerism and targeted marketing into an introspective, and critical and sarcastic overview of life. This is achieved by combining the elements, but not in a flat 2d way. Stephen projects the elements into the 3d sculptural world, so one has to look at the layers of elements as if peering into the layers of ones hidden conscience. His video work follows this collage approach to produce a narrative on given subjects such as politics to manhood to ones place in society.

His prior work, Burned Fingers Series of 1,000, has garnered much praise and awards. The series took 5.5 years to produce and examined Anderson’s personal observations of society and his own life, essentially becoming a visual diary.

Other current endeavors include a solo experimental live electronic noise band; Jesus is Dead. Filmed and is editing a documentary of his grandmas senior community dance troupe. Producing alternative free film screenings and experimental concert events under The Eclectic Company, which is a collaborative artistic think tank and production group located in Santa Ana, which he co-founded, and maintianing a cancer support site created by him and his friend Scott (RIP) who was an inspiration to cancer survivors. And is currently the executive director of the Orange County Center for COnteporary Art (OCCCA.)