Born 1949 in Los Angeles, Stuart Gold studied at UC Davis with artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Roland Peterson and Roy Deforest. In 1980, he received his masters degree from SF State University in Printmaking. In 1985, After making a living for a number of years as a traditional painter/printmaker, he discovered an interest in computer generated imagery and animation and subsequently became one of the first generation of artists/non-technical programmers to be actively involved in the production of computer animation and graphics for the video industry. Hired by Pacific Bell Corporate Television in 1986 to create graphics and animations for in-house and satellite programming, he went on to be one of two artists/animators creating work for Hewlett-Packard Media Services and finally in 1988 became head of computer graphics and animation for Tandem Computers and Tandem Television Network. In 1989,he started Shadow and Light Productions specializing in industrial and broadcast computer graphics, bio-medical animation, and the creation of Forensic Animation and multimedia. After years in the computer graphics field, he has come full circle, built himself a studio in the foothills south of Grass Valley California and is creating art once more.