The exhibition year opens today in Taft’s Mark W. Potter Gallery with Stephen Shaheen’s Excavation, Selected Works 2010-2022. The show continues through December 14. An opening reception will be held Thursday, November 3 from 6:00 pm. To 7:00 pm.

Stephen Shaheen received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He has worked and trained extensively in Italy earning his degree as a stone sculptor in Siena. He is the recipient of a Ludwig Volgestein grant, the Italian Cultural Institute/La Fortuna Foundation Fellowship, and the Digital Stone Project Residency (2009-2010). His indoor and outdoor installations are in public and private collections in Europe and the United States. 

Shanheen received wide recognition for Memoria, his 100-ton marble and granite monument to the victims of 9/ll. He currently teaches at the City University of New York in Manhattan, the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and the New York Academy of Art. He is the director of Tuscany Study, which is an intensive summer art program in Italy. He currently resides and works in New York City.

Read more about Shaheen, his work. and a prior exhibition here.