About

Stephen Mishol is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art. As an undergraduate, he was also a recipient of a Yale-Norfolk Fellowship. In 1986 he was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant and lived and worked in Warsaw, Poland. In 2006, Mishol received an Artist Resource Trust Grant. 

 Mishol’s work has also been recognized by the Massachusetts Cultural Council four times. He was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship for Painting in 2008 and in 2016 he was awarded his second Fellowship, this time for Drawing. He has also been recognized as a finalist two other times. Mishol’s work is included in the permanent collections of the DeCordova Museum, the Boston Public Library, Fidelity Investments of Boston, as well as many private collections. 

 In addition, Mishol has also been a recipient of a National Science Foundation Grant (NSF) as co-PI for the Cool Science project, a climate science learning endeavor that is part of the NSF’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning program. Mishol is also a co-founder of the Arts Research Collaborative in Lowell, Mass.