Steven Matthew Brown studied sculpture and painting in Detroit, where he began a life in the visual arts that includes over forty exhibitions and community projects in six countries. He coauthored the catalog [COSHOCTON] with Anne Cornell to document one such project in a small Ohio town, and has placed work in the collections of artist Charles McGee and the Schott Museum in Germany. In 2006 he moved to the former East Germany, and in 2008 earned an MFA in Public Art from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with his community-specific illustrated novel Body Palimpsest. His essays and stories appear widely in publications like Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, Word Riot, Public Art Dialogue, the acclaimed German magazine DUMMY, and the seventeenth edition of the MDR anthology Frühstück mit Axt. Distinctions include an Allesee Fellowship, and grants from the Ohio Arts Council, MCACA, and Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. He has worked as a cook, builder, gallerist, translator, librarian, tree surgeon, and grant writer. Currently, he lives in the town of Jena, Thuringia, where he is fortunate enough to practice his disciplines full-time, for now.
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