| Scott Grieger | |
| Birth Place: | Biloxi, Mississippi |
| Nationality: | American |
| Field: | Painting |
| Alma Mater: | California State University, Northridge |
| Awards: | National Endowment for the Arts Mid-Career Grant (1984) |
Scott Grieger (born 1946) is an American artist based in Los Angeles. He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, California and received a B.F.A. from California State University, Northridge in 1971. His work has been exhibited internationally for over 40 years. He is a Professor and Program Director of Painting in the Fine Arts program at Otis College of Art and Design.[1]
Grieger began his career during the 1970s in Los Angeles. As Suzanne Lacy writes, "There was a distinct advantage to living in Southern California’s non mainstream venues during the seventies, where an experimental art grew up outside of critical scrutiny and commercial interests."[2] Among the artists working in Los Angeles during this period were: Paul McCarthy, Chris Burden, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Alexis Smith. Grieger sees his work as challenging conventional wisdom and revealing hidden assumptions in both art and culture.[3]
Grieger’s work is in the permanent collections the following museums: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
In 2010, Grieger received a Distinguished Educator Award, Otis College and the LAX Coastal Area Chamber of Commerce. In 1984, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Mid-Career Artist Award.