Steven Mendelson, self taught photographer and artist was born in New York City in 1940. As a teenager he loved photography and in later years traveled Mexico and Europe with camera in hand.

Steven’s formal education is chemical engineering. At the age of 29, after completing part of his PHD, he quit his career and educational studies for alternative lifestyle and artistic pursuits.

In Steven’s early twenties, he traveled Mexico and became enchanted with the culture and charm. He kept returning for short stays almost every year until 2000 when he discovered San Miguel de Allende where he has lived ever since expanding his creative efforts in that culturally rich international community.

Steven’s artistic work began with his photography but in 1995 it began evolving towards painting and a unique style of mixed media art. He uses his own photographs as the basis to form the painting either as a single photo or as a collage in which he uses pieces of his various photographs. The images are then transformed by using acrylics, oil pastels, pens, pencils, or crayons. He is a man of the “old world” of paper, paint, scissors, and glue, no computer imaging is used for any of his artwork. Steven has expanded his artistic repertoire by doing original paintings on canvas, paper, and wood panel.

His works are in private collections internationally including USA, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, France, Spain, England, China, and Australia.