Stephen Fleming (b. 1950) is a painter, sculptor and arts administrator whose career has connected contemporary art communities in California and the American Southwest. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and received a Certificate in Painting from the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where he won the Landseer Prize for Landscape. He earned his M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis, in 1985. Fleming received a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship in 1987 and subsequently taught at the Kansas City Art Institute. From 1994 to 2019, he directed the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program in New Mexico, supporting generations of artists through its nationally recognized residency program. His work has been featured in approximately 20 solo exhibitions and more than 40 group exhibitions. Fleming continues to paint in Roswell, New Mexico.