Stefan Wouters (born 1972) is a Belgian visual artist, curator and researcher of Happenings and Performance art.
While working in the family business of his parents, he studied painting and drawing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (DKO).
During these studies he worked as a translator and a writer for the communication department of the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels.
His interest increasingly shifted towards time-based art forms and decided to write a Ph.D. exploring the relation between Happenings and subcultures during the 1960s.
[2] In order to finance his studies he collaborated for the online database Belgium is Happening and participated as a performance artist in the international performance group Virtual Vérité, led by Los Angeles–based artist Harry Gamboa, Jr.