Stephen Beal

Stephen Beal is an American artist, educator, and academic administrator. He served as the 9th president of California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland, California, from 2008 until 2023. His artwork recognized for his colorful grid paintings.

Education Beal attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, California; and earned a M.F.A. degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Career Since 1972, Beal has had numerous exhibitions of his work, and has received many commissions and grants. From 1980 to 1983, he was assistant professor of art appreciation, collage, photography studio, and design studio at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois.