Stephen Shooster

Stephen Shooster, also known as Shoosty®, was born in 1958 in Chester, Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in Architecture in 1982 at the University of Florida. He enjoyed a successful corporate career by day and a prolific painting career by night. He is also the author of, ‘The Horse Adjutant,’ a story about a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, and is featured in Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Art.

From Local Beginnings to Global Response

Shooster’s corporate career took him from working with his family in an answering service business, using old-fashioned wooden switchboards to navigating the company successfully through the convergence of computers and telephony, patenting software along the way that is the de facto method used by all call centers today. His company, Global Response, serves some of the finest brands in the world, including Toyota, Lane Bryant, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA - The Modern Museum of Art.

Shoosty® by Night, Invoking the Spirits

Using the signature Shoosty® his painting career spans over 50 years and is recognizable by his trademark use of color and shape. Influenced by travel, music, tribal cultures and family, Shoosty’s work takes the viewer on a wild ride invok...

University of Florida

2025 - Shoosty Bugs: An Art Infestation - The Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona, Florida, April 5, 2025 - January 4, 2026.
2025 - UF Innovation Center
2024 - Orlando Airport Fusion Gallery
2023 - Sanford City Hall, Art in Chambers
2022 - Mill's Gallery Orlando
2019 - Artist Stephen Shooster Exhibits Retrospective, 50 Years of Making Art, at the Shirley and Barton Weisman Community Center