Biography
Honorary Artist Member since 2015
A Colorado native, Stephen C. Datz earned his BFA in Graphic Design from Colorado State University in 1992, and immediately moved to Colorado’s Western Slope to pursue a career as a fine artist.
Stephen’s work translates his passion for the varied terrain, fleeting moods, and abstract rhythms of the western landscape into vibrant and evocative paintings possessed of a distinctively personal visual style.
His work has been the subject of nearly 20 solo exhibitions and has appeared in dozens of group exhibitions around the country, including shows at the Gilcrease Museum, Albuquerque Museum, Laguna Art Museum, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Medicine Man Gallery, and Salmagundi Club. His work has also been featured in Southwest Art, Western Art Collector, Plein Air, and Western Art & Architecture.