Stan Squirewell was born and raised in Washington, DC and currently lives in New York City. His artistic training began at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, DC, in 1993. Since graduation (1996), he continued his tutelage under many of DC’s master artists, including Michael Platt and Lou Stovall. In 2007, Squirewell graduated with a MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Hoffberger School of Painting; there he studied with the late, Grace Hartigan. As a painter, photographer and installation and performance artist, his work is multilayered and tackles themes such as race and memory through mythology, sacred geometry and science.

Squirewell is the first winner of the Rush Philanthropic and Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series. He has performed with Nick Cave (SoundSuits) at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC and Jefferson Pinder at G-Fine Arts, Washington, DC. His work is in private and public collections, including the Reginald Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD; the Robert Steele Collection, College Park, MD and the Smithsonian’s African American Museum (2015).