Dan Steeves: Biography

Biography

Dan Steeves was born in 1959 in Riverview, New Brunswick. He graduated from Mount Allison University with a BFA in 1981. He worked in the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University as printmaking technician from 1981-2020, and continues to teach first year printmaking. Steeves has received an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation award and a New Brunswick Strathbutler Award for excellence in the arts from the Sheila Hugh McKay Foundation. He won first place in Open Studio’s National Printmaking Award. He has been elected to the Royal Canadian Academy for the Arts and has received exhibition awards from the Canada Council, NB Arts Board and Internal SSHRC, Bell and Creation grants from Mount Allison University. He has participated in over 100 public exhibitions across Canada and in the United States, as well as China, England, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Scotland, Taiwan, Russia, and Ukraine. His work is represented in the Canada Council and New Brunswick Art Banks and numerous other public, institutional and private collections. He has published two books, The Bone Fields and The Light That Lives In Darkness. He lives in Sackville with his wife Lisa.

Text © 2022 by Blake Zigrossi and Dan Steeves. Poetry by Wendy Jones All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without prior written permission by the publisher

Published by Abbozzo Gallery 401 Richmond St. West, Suite 128 Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8

Credits: Images courtesy of Dan Steeves and Abbozzo Gallery Catalogue by Quincy Shaw Back cover image: The Lines Can Get Blurred 13/16, 2019. See page: 38