Steven Mastroianni

I am a Cleveland based artist, photographer, educator, curator, radio programmer, and musician. My art straddles the worlds of photography and drawing, incorporating printmaking and camera-less photographic processes. I am also a professor and guest lecturer in photography at the college level.

From 2008 until 2018 I was the owner and curator of Silver Scuro Studio and Gallery (formerly Mastroianni Arts), a gallery and studio space, where I exhibited the work of area artists and other arts related events.

My work is included in many private and corporate collections, including Progressive Insurance, University Hospitals, and The Cleveland Clinic. I have exhibited my work in numerous solo and group shows, curated dozens of exhibits in my own gallery, and have served on many exhibition juries.

BFA: Cleveland Institute of Art

Selected exhibits:

2025: Artist Archives of the Western Reserve: The New Now, juried group show

2025: Context Fine Art (Cleveland, 78th st. Studios) “From Light”, two person exhibit with Jamie Richey

2025: Waterloo Arts (Cleveland), Linear Worlds, two person exhibition with Elisa Albrecht
2024: Summit Artspace (Akron), Diagrams for Inner Space, solo exhibition, July 12 - September 14

2024: ROY G BIV (Columbus), Emerging artist series June 14 - July 05, with Nicholas Warndorf and Sage Rucci

2024: Pinwheel Gallery (Cleveland), The Cleveland Eclipse Show (with Mary Defer). April 5th-May 3rd. Exhibition about and celebrating the total solar eclipse visible from the Cleveland area on April 8th, 2024

2024: Heights Arts: Irrational Objects: Backwards into the Future, invitational group exhibit reexamining surrealism and its relevance today.

2023-2024: No Exit New Music Ensemble Year of Surreality—commissioned portraits and original photograms accompany No Exit’s year long series on surrealism.

2023: Summit Artspace 19th Annual “Fresh” Juried Exhibition, honorable mention

2022: Artist in residence, Akron Soul Train, Akron, Ohio

2022: “Scurograph”, solo exhibition at Massillon Museum Studio M, Massillon, Ohio

2021: “Altered”, ex...