Scott T. Anderson [b. 1977 Louisville, Kentucky, USA.] is a self-taught multimedia artist. A coach's son, he grew up in locker rooms and gymnasiums. After wrestling in college, his wayward years began; initially fueling this travel by competing in professional MMA shows from the Rockies to Hawaii to Tokyo. When calling it quits to his athletic experience, his focus shifted back to his enduring interest in visual art. He moved first to Los Angeles, where he first showed his art professionally. Itchy feet led him to live in New Mexico, New York City, Toronto, and a rural southern Louisiana parish. Eventually, the trail he followed brought him back to his birthplace of Kentucky where he now lives and works.Scott’s work deals with history, myth, memory, and the American West. His subjects include cowboys, horses, semi-trucks, muscle cars, and western movie icons. The recurring character of the “goon,” a menacing cowboy, acts as a representative of American Exceptionalism, but betrays its hubris, evoking a faded glory. His paintings are primarily representational, but occasionally veer into abstraction. While working on his more figurative paintings, he is also semi-consciously developing what he calls “floor paintings.” These begin as raw canvases used to clean brushes, lining the floor of his studio. Eventually, something emerges from the abstraction and these become the basis of serious paintings. Anderson’s sculptural practice employs materials that are found as well as ones that are common in commercial use. His video work, in the past, had been more abstract but recently shifted to the use of found footage and choreographed actions shot on self made sets.Scott was a 2024 great meadows grant recipient and has shown his work in Los Angels, San Francisco, Toronto, Louisville, and Nashville.