For more than 46 years, Steven D. Addi has been well known in the art world for his entrepreneurial success as a gallery owner and art dealer. Addi is the founder of Addi Galleries, Inc., a fine art gallery chain headquartered in Reno, Nevada. Since the 1978 inception of his first gallery in the MGM Grand Hotel. Addi has owned and operated over twenty well-respected art galleries on throughout the West Coast including San Francisco, Bally’s Las Vegas, Hilton Las Vegas, Harrah’s Tahoe MGM Grand Reno, San Diego and Front Street Maui, Hawaii. He has been interviewed and quoted by nearly every trade magazine in the county on various subjects related to the art world. His experience in the industry is broad, and includes fields from artist management, gallery management, art fairs, art marketing, and fine art publishing. In addition, Mr. Addi led the way in marketing celebrities such as Red Skelton, Gary Burghoff and Yakov Smirnoff and was the founding producer of Art21 Las Vegas, an esteemed international fine art trade show which represented 150 exhibitors from over 20 countries at the MGM Hotel in Las Vegas. Having worked so intensely with artists and artwork from all over the world for decades, in for the last 15 years Addi has been an innovator of his own art specializing in Monumental Sculptures, Photography and more. Addi's foundation in the visual arts is immense. Underneath the powerful exterior of a businessman is a successful artist in his own right, with collectors all over the country.