Stephen Mangum is a contemporary realist painter born in 1954 in Mississippi and currently living in San Francisco. A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, his paintings in recent years have been focused on themes of racism and social justice though portraiture and figuration. His award winning series “Illusions of My Childhood” was recently displayed in a solo exhibition at the Rosa Parks Museum. He has also exhibited at the DeYoung Museum, the Crocker Museum, the Triton Museum, and the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art and has been juried into and won awards in numerous national and international competitions. He has also been featured in American Art Collector, International Artist, and many art journals. A member of the Portrait Society of America, the International Guild of Realism, and the National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society, his paintings are in private and corporate collections across the U.S.