Stephen Westfall is a painter, critic and professor. He is an Associate Professor in Painting at the Mason Gross School of Fine Arts at Rutgers University; and a Professor of Painting at Bard College.

His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Westfall has received awards from the NEA, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nancy Graves Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy in Rome.