Jeff Stauder was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Eastern Connecticut. Stauder received his BA in Art from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he won the 1996 Dana Pond Painting Award. Stauder moved to New York City where he painted, bartended, and created the Artists Theoretical Racing Circuit, a collaborative conceptual art project. He moved to Western Massachusetts in 2008, where he finally indulged his true nature by reveling in an imagistic historicism inspired by his favorite old and modern masters. That work has been exhibited widely in New England, including a solo exhibition at the University of Massachusetts. In 2022 he was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant in Painting. A joyful misanthrope who loves rock & roll, art history, and cats, Stauder is trying to create one great painting before he dies.
