Steven Evans is Executive Director of FotoFest, the international photographic and new media arts organization based in Houston, TX and known for its Biennial, International Portfolio Review, exhibitions, and learning programs. An experienced executive, fundraiser, curator, writer, and creative, he is also an artist working in a range of media, and regularly exhibits his work in solo and group exhibitions internationally. His first solo museum exhibition took place at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2019.Evans is formerly Executive Director and Curator of the Linda Pace Foundation. Previously, he was the Managing Director of Dia:Beacon, Dia Art Foundation’s 293,000 square foot museum of contemporary art. As an independent consultant, Evans has provided strategic guidance and leadership support to the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum of San Antonio, TX.Evans curated, co-curated and organized the FotoFest 2024, 2022, 2018 and 2016 Biennial central exhibitions “Critical Geography,” "If I Had a Hammer," "India/ Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art" and "Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet." He co-edited the related hardcover books (Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, and Houston: FotoFest, 2022, 2018, 2016), and contributed introductory essays. He co-edited and contributed to the books "African Cosmologies: Photography, Time and the Other" (Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, and Houston: FotoFest, 2020) and "Velvet Generation" (Houston: FotoFest).Steven Evans’ independent curatorial projects include: Other Voices, Other Rooms, at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs in New York City, which received recognition from the International Association of Art Critics in 2009. Also in 2009, he published “In Service to Artists...” in Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values, Alta-Mira Press, arguing for an artist-centric culture in museums and arts organizations. He has served as a panelist for the NEA, Texas Commission on the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, and as a Board Member of the Fire Island Artist Residency.Born in Key West, Florida, Evans graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, Georgia with a B.F.A. in 1987, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design with an M.F.A. in 1989.