Stephen Towns American, b. 1980

Biography
Stephen Towns
Stephen Towns (b. 1980, South Carolina) earned his BFA in studio art from the University of South Carolina and currently lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. His first solo museum exhibition took place in 2018 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The show, entitled Stephen Towns: Rumination and a Reckoning, traveled to Mark Bradford’s Art & Practice gallery in Los Angeles. In 2021, Towns was the first African American artist-in-residence at the Fallingwater Institute in Pennsylvania and in 2025, he became the first artist-in-residence in the relaunched program at the Gilcrease Museum. Towns’ work can be found in numerous public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., the Flint Institute of Fine Arts in Michigan, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Primarily known for his self-taught quilting practice, Towns is a multimedia artist; his formal training as a painter, combined with his experience in textiles contributes to his well-developed, multi-faceted oeuvre.
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