Steve Mumford was born in 1960. He got his BFA from the Boston Museum School/Tufts in 1986, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1994.

He has shown his work professionally in NYC since 1996, first at Tricia Collins Grand Salon, then at Postmasters Gallery, where he’s had 7 solo shows. He’s shown his work in galleries and institutions throughout the US and Europe, including the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, the Meadows Museum, and Marella Arte Contemporanea in Milan. His drawings have been published in numerous portfolios in Harpers Magazine, as well as in a book published by Drawn & Quarterly Press, Baghdad Journal, and BOMB Magazine.

Steve made drawing trips to Iraq and Afghanistan during the war in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011. He was sometimes embedded, sometimes independent, always attempting to draw from life. Besides war, events he has drawn for Harpers include the BP oil spill, rallies for Donald Trump, POWs at Guantanamo, soldiers recovering at Walter Reed and Brooke Army Medical Center, and most recently, Covid scenes from NYC as well as looting and BLM protests in NYC and Portland, OR. He often makes oil paintings based on the subjects he’s drawn.

Steve currently teaches at the New York Academy of Art and SVA. He lives with his wife, the painter Inka Essenhigh, and their son in NYC.