Steve Sax was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, N.Y. He studied with Harvey Dinnerstein and Ted Seth Jacobs and the Art Students League and Illustration at the School of Visual Arts. He also studied in The Hague, Holland and Israel.

His illustrations have been published in many newspapers and magazines including Family Media, Sports Illustrated, Home Owner, Time, The New York Times, Inside Pitch, Inside Sports, Forbes, Golf Illustrated, Home Ideas, Boxing Illustrated, and Ad Age. His political and editorial cartoons appeared in The Villager.

In 1981-82 Sax worked in Amsterdam, Holland at The Apple Theatre doing scenic painting and freelance work for Dutch magazines and humor books. He was also commissioned by a New York/Japanese firm to travel to Japan for several months to assist the art department in the opening of a new theme park in Nagasaki, Japan. In Israel and NYC he did animation for several film productions.

Bruce Springsteen hired Sax to create sketches of him and his band working backstage during the Tunnel of Love tour. In 1991, he assisted Red Grooms with his artwork. Sax had been featured in the two major exhibitions Teamwork at the Lehman College Art Gallery and Batter Up: The Art of Baseball at The Pelham Art Center. Other museum exhibitions include The Norman Rockwell Museum, The Delaware Art Museum, Society of Illustrators in NYC, The New England Sport Museum in Cambridge, MA, Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., and The Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA. In 1998 he had a one man show of 50 paintings at the Butler Art Institute in Ohio.