About

BIO

STEVE BUDINGTON received an MFA in painting and printmaking from the Yale School of Art and a BFA in painting and art history from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with additional studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. Budington has shared his work nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in Vienna, Austria, at the ClubClub Wien; in New York, at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Fordham University, and Exit Art; San Francisco, at the Mirus Gallery; Los Angeles, at Whittier College; and in Italy, at the Fondazione Ambrosetti Arte Contemporanea. Closer to his Vermont home the artist has shared work at the Hall Art Foundation in Reading Vermont, the BCA Center, and the Phoenix Gallery in Waterbury. Budington received a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant in 2019-20 and has been awarded residencies at the Hotel Pupik in Schrattenberg, Austria, the Monhegan Island Artist in Residence, in Maine, and the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, VT. The artist has taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, The Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, and currently at the University of Vermont, where he is Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing.

Concurrent with his studio practice, Budington designs landscapes and gardens. His interest is in establishing native plant communities that bring ecological benefit to home landscapes and public spaces. Budington is a certified master gardener in the state of Vermont, and he helps oversee the public gardens at the Pierson Library in Shelburne, Vermont. He was a 2023 resident at the Oak Springs Garden Foundation where he studied ecological landscape design strategies with Larry Weaner, founder of New Directions in the American Landscape (NDAL).

Budington lives in northern Vermont with his family, and he plays in an improvising musicians collective in Middlebury, VT.