Scott Grieger

Scott Grieger
Born1946 (age 77–78)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCalifornia State University, Northridge
Known forPainting
AwardsNational Endowment for the Arts Mid-Career Grant (1984)

Scott Grieger (born 1946) is an American artist based in Los Angeles. He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, California and received a B.F.A. from California State University, Northridge in 1971. His work has been exhibited internationally for over 40 years. He is a Professor and Program Director of Painting in the Fine Arts program at Otis College of Art and Design.[1]

Grieger began his career during the 1970s in Los Angeles. As Suzanne Lacy writes, "There was a distinct advantage to living in Southern California’s non mainstream venues during the seventies, where an experimental art grew up outside of critical scrutiny and commercial interests."[2] Among the artists working in Los Angeles during this period were: Paul McCarthy, Chris Burden, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Alexis Smith. Grieger sees his work as challenging conventional wisdom and revealing hidden assumptions in both art and culture.[3]

  1. ^ Scott Grieger
  2. ^ Lacy, Suzanne. Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007
  3. ^ Grieger Artist Statement