Stephen Mishol

Stephen Mishol is an Associate Professor in the Art and Design Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. As an undergraduate, he was also a recipient of a Yale-Norfolk Fellowship. Upon receiving his B.F.A. he was awarded a Fulbright Grant and lived and worked in Warsaw, Poland. After graduate school, he was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University’s Visual and Environmental Studies Department, Artist in Residence at Brandeis University and Visiting Artist at Colorado College.

In 2006, Mishol was awarded an Artist Resource Trust Grant and in 2008, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship for Painting. In 2016, he was awarded his second Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, this time for Drawing. His work is included in the Permanent Collections of the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass., the Boston Public Library, and Fidelity Investments of Boston. In 2019, his research as co-PI with Cool Science, a collaborative effort examining extreme weather through the blending of science and art, was recognized by a National Science Foundation Grant. Mishol is also a co-founder of the Arts Research Collaborative in Lowell, Mass.