Stuart Elster

Stuart Elster was born and raised in New York City and presently lives and works in Brooklyn. NY. After graduating from LaGuardia High School of Music and Art, Stuart studied Stone Carving and Art History in Carrara and Pietrasanta Italy with Brooklyn College. Stuart received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT and his BFA in Fine Arts / Painting from The Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia PA.

Stuart has been represented in New York by Junior Projects Gallery, Lucas Schoormans and Tate Galleries. He has participated in two- person and group exhibitions at Junior Projects Gallery in  Pulse Miami and the Dallas Art Fair. At Lucas Schoormans, Tate, Marvelli, Schroeder Romero and Nicole Klagsburn Galleries. Nationally, at Yale University School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Gallery, New Haven CT, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT, Happy Lion Gallery in Los Angeles CA, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, DePaul University Art Museum in Chicago, the Herter Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, University of the of the Arts in Philadelphia. Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Idaho. Internationally his work has been shown in Italy, France, Austria, India and Germany. Stuart’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, , Chicago Tribune, Artcritical, Hyperallergic and Tema Celeste magazine. Profiles and interviews with the artist have been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Heeb magazine and the Kunstforum International.

 Presently, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Brooklyn College Department of Art, Stuart was the former Director of the Fine Arts Department and critic in the Summer MFA program at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia PA. He is a guest instructor at the New York Studio School and has been a visiting artist and guest critic at Yale University New Haven, CT. and Yale University Norfolk summer program, Brooklyn College MFA program, NYU Steinhart MFA Program in Studio Art, School of Visual Arts, NY DePaul University, Chicago, IL School of the Art institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, Rice University Houston TX, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX and the Kunstakademie Munster, Munster Germany.