Dan Steeves

Dan Steeves was born in 1959 in Riverview, New Brunswick. He graduated from Mount Allison University with a BFA in 1981. He worked in the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University as printmaking technician from 1981-2020 and continues to teach first year printmaking.

Steeves has received an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation award and a New Brunswick Strathbutler Award for excellence in the arts from the Sheila Hugh McKay Foundation. He won first place in Open Studio’s National Printmaking Award. He has been elected to the Royal Canadian Academy for the Arts and has received exhibition awards from the Canada Council, NB Arts Board and Internal SSHRC, Bell and Creation grants from Mount Allison University.

He has participated in over 100 public exhibitions across Canada and in the United States, as well as China, England, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Scotland, Taiwan, Russia, and Ukraine. His work is represented in the Canada Council and New Brunswick Art Banks and numerous other public, institutional and private collections. He has published two books, The Bone Fields and The Light That Lives in Darkness. He lives in Sackville with his wife Lisa.