Stephanie Syjuco

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital to investigate issues of economies and empire. Recently she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2020 Tiffany Foundation Award, and a 2009 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award. She was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at National Museum of American History (Washington DC, 2019-20) and is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. Born in the Philippines, Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); 12th Havana Bienal; and the 2015 Asian Art Biennial (Taiwan), among others. She is Associate Professor in Sculpture at University of California, Berkeley.