Stephen Anderson is a Southern California–based multidisciplinary artist whose politically charged assemblages, text-based works, and mixed-media collages interrogate American mythologies, collective memory, and systems of power. Drawing from decades of visual culture and protest history, Anderson constructs layered, often satirical compositions that fuse empathy with critique—dismantling the familiar to expose what lies beneath.

Anderson has exhibited in over 150 shows across the U.S. and internationally, including exhibitions in South Korea, Japan, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, the U.K., and Italy. His work has been featured at major contemporary art venues including SCOPE Miami Beach, LA Art Show, Torrance Art Museum, Irvine Fine Arts Center, and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, and in curated exhibitions juried by esteemed curators from LACMA and UC Berkeley.

His art and ideas have garnered press in leading publications such as the Los Angeles Times, OC Weekly, Artillery Magazine, Visual Art Source, and Orange Coast Magazine. He has been published in longform artist features, critical exhibition reviews, and books including Photographers Forum and Direct Art Magazine.

Informed by a background in activism and a career-long engagement with issues of justice, identity, and representation, Anderson’s work resonates with current cultural urgencies—while also tracing the long arc of dissent and visual resistance in American life. His practice continues to evolve as a vital, confrontational voice in contemporary art.