Hunter Stabler

Saint Vitus Architeuthis Manalishi with the Seven Tentacle Crown

Hunter Stabler was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, and was raised in upstate South Carolina. He received a BFA degree in painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and an MFA degree in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. Stabler is currently pursuing an MFA in Digital Art at Louisiana State University. His work has been widely exhibited across the United States and internationally, including exhibitions at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, New York, the Shelburne Art Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey, and the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, New York. Stabler’s hand-cut paper artwork has been published in the books High Touch: Tactile Design and Visual Explorations, Push Paper, Strangers in the Nest (a book of Poems by Anselm Berrigan, Letterpress printed with images accompanying each poem), and published in Laminate Magazine, First Look Magazine and American Craft Magazine. Stabler was named “Philadelphia’s Next Hot Artist” in 2007 by The Philadelphia Weekly. He currently lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.