Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Steven D. Foster

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 7:00pm, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Union Ball Room

Steven D. Foster

Steven D. Foster was born in the small town, Piqua, Ohio in 1945. Photography came to Steven as an epiphany just before his dad died when he was 10 years old. It was in this moment that he knew he would become a photographer, and dedicate his life to the medium. In 1968 he received his BS from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he studied with Aaron Siskind, Arthur Siegel, and Wynn Bullock. Steven received his MFA in 1972 from the University of New Mexico where he studied photography with Van Deren Coke, Ray Metzker, and Beaumont Newhall. After graduate school, Steven went on to hold a position as an educator at Georgia State University in Atlanta from 1972-1975. Following that, Foster moved to Milwaukee and founded the photography department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he taught from 1975 until his retirement in 2007. Foster's work has been published and shown widely, at institutions such as The George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Pace/McGill Gallery in New York, Milwaukee Art Museum, The Atlanta Photography Group, Young-Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Steven currently resides in Canandaigua, New York.