Stanley Goldstein is a native Californian. In 1976 he received a fellowship to Yale Summer School of Music and Art and then earned his BA from UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies later that year.
He has shown his paintings widely throughout the United States and is included in many private, corporate, and public collections, including Oracle, Pfizer, The Pacific Union Club, and the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums. He has had solo shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, including the Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, and the George Billis Galleries in New York and Los Angeles. He has exhibited in group shows in, among others, the San Francisco Art Institute, the California College of Arts and Crafts, the Triton Museum, Santa Clara, and the San Francisco Palace of the Legion of Honor.
He has taught at UCSB, City College, Fort Mason, Idyllwild Arts, and the San Francisco Arts Institute. In 2003 he was featured in an article, with his art appearing on the cover of Arts and Antiques Magazine, and has appeared in Southwest Art, 7 X 7, Artweek, and American Art Collector. In 2011 he received a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant.