Steve Canaday
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Steve Canaday is an American artist based in Los Angeles.

Education

Canaday studied at the Wayne State University
Wayne State University
Wayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...

 in Detroit in Michigan earning a BFA in 1994 and graduated with an MFA in painting from the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

 in Los Angeles in 2001.

Exhibitions

Canaday's work has been shown internationally at galleries including The Hospital in London, Baronian_Francey in Brussels, ACME, The project and Black Dragon Society in Los Angeles, Galerie Julius Hummel in Vienna, 1R Gallery in Chicago, and Bronwyn Keenan in New York.

Public Collections

Canday is in the museum collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...

, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near Walt Disney Concert Hall...

; and FC MoCA Manchester in England.

Work

Canaday's work often depicts hyper sexualized semi clad nudes. At once a celebration and critique of "lowbrow" culture, his brightly colored paintings depict a fetishized landscape of sexualized Americana.

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