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Stephanie Syjuco

Stephanie Syjuco
Born1974 (age 50–51)
Manila, Philippines
Alma materSan Francisco Art Institute (BFA)
Stanford University (MFA)
Occupation(s)Visual artist, educator
Known forPhotography, sculpture, installation art
Awards2014 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Websitewww.stephaniesyjuco.com

Stephanie Syjuco (born 1974, in Manila, Philippines), is a Filipino-born American conceptual artist and educator. She works in photography, sculpture, and installation art. Born in the Philippines, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1977. She lives in Oakland, California, and teaches art at the University of California, Berkeley.

Education

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Stephanie Syjuco received a BFA degree in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995; she studied at the Skowhegen School of Painting and Sculpture (1997); and received a MFA degree from Stanford University in 2005.[1][2]

Career

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2016 solo exhibition at Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
2012 installation at Fort Point, San Francisco
2012 Commission for the ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose

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, in order 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.[3]

Her early artwork explored the friction between the authentic and the counterfeit, addressing political concerns regarding issues of labor and economies within the capitalist system.[4] In 2009 she created Copystand: An autonomous manufacturing zone for the Frieze Art Fair in London. The Wall Street Journal notes: "Other artists, meanwhile, are openly toying with the fair's changing economics... San Francisco-based artist Stephanie Syjuco and several of her artist friends are making copycat versions of their favorite fair pieces, which she is selling at "heavily discounted" prices ranging from roughly $30 to $750."[5]

A long-time educator, she is an Associate Professor in Sculpture in the Art Practice Department at the University of California Berkeley,[6] having joined the department in 2013. Prior to being at Berkeley, she was a visiting lecturer at numerous art programs, including The California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Mills College, and Carnegie Mellon University. She is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, RYAN LEE Gallery in New York, and Silverlens Gallery, Manila. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[7] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[8] Di rosa,[9] The Smithsonian American Art Museum[10] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.,[11] among others. She is the recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship in Visual Arts[12] and a 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Program grant.[13] In 2018, she was featured in the San Francisco Bay Area episode of PBS's Art21: Art in the 21st Century.[14]

In 2011 Syjuco made Re-Edition Texts: Heart of Darkness.

In September 2019 Syjuco opened a large solo exhibition titled Rogue States at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.[15][16]

In 2024 Syjuco opened After/Images, a large-scale exhibit with an focus on photography and videography of Filipinos to showcase the impacts of colonialism through the framing and existence of the visual medium.[17]

Exhibitions

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Exhibitions include a show at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, "Being: New Photography"[18] at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Public Knowledge,"[19] at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Disrupting Craft: The Renwick Invitational (2018-2019)[20] at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and This site is under Revolution[21] the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Bibliography

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Stephanie Syjuco". Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  2. ^ At home & abroad : 20 contemporary Filipino artists. Friis-Hansen, Dana, 1961-, Guillermo, Alice., Baysa, Jeff., Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. San Francisco, Calif.: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. 1998. ISBN 0939117150. OCLC 40146345.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ "Stephanie Syjuco". stephaniesyjuco.com.
  4. ^ "Lossy: On the Politics of Networked Flows and Degraded Systems". The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. UC BERKELEY'S CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  5. ^ Crow, Kelly (15 October 2009). "Frieze Art Fair Opens to Steady Sales, Gray Art". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Stephanie Syjuco".
  7. ^ "Stephanie Syjuco | MoMA".
  8. ^ "SFMOMA: Stephanie Syjuco". Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  9. ^ "The Collection". dirosaart.org. 3 July 2010. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  10. ^ "Stephanie Syjuco | Smithsonian American Art Museum".
  11. ^ "Whitney Museum of American Art: Stephanie Syjuco". collection.whitney.org. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  12. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Stephanie Syjuco". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  13. ^ "Painters and Sculptors Program: 2009 - Stephanie Syjuco". Joan Mitchell Foundation. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  14. ^ "Stephanie Syjuco in "San Francisco Bay Area"". Art21: Art in the 21st Century. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  15. ^ Friswold, Paul. "Stephanie Syjuco: Rogue States". Riverfront Times. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  16. ^ "Stephanie Syjuco". Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  17. ^ "Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
  18. ^ "Being: New Photography 2018 | MoMA". www.moma.org. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  19. ^ "Public Knowledge". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  20. ^ "Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  21. ^ "This Site is Under Revolution". www.mmoma.ru. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  22. ^ Mudede, Charles. "Stephanie Syjuco Empowers the Oppressed with Just a Finger". The Stranger. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
  23. ^ "Stephanie Syjuco. Dodge + burn". Meer. 2024-02-14. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
  24. ^ "Recent Acquisitions: Stephanie Syjuco | January 26, 2023 - August 22, 2023 | Allen Memorial Art Museum". amam.oberlin.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  25. ^ "Stephanie Syjuco: Citizens". Ryan Lee Gallery. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  26. ^ "Stephanie Syjuco | Catharine Clark Gallery". cclarkgallery.com. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  27. ^ "Syjuco: RAIDERS Redux 2012 | Catharine Clark Gallery". cclarkgallery.com. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  28. ^ "Exhibit: Stephanie Syjuco at the Columbus Museum of Art". Columbus Alive. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  29. ^ Quick, Genevieve (27 October 2015). "Raiders and Empires". Art Practical. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  30. ^ "An interview with notMoMA artist Stephanie Syjuco". Portland Art Museum. 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  31. ^ Falconer, Morgan (February 2010). "1969". Art Monthly: 27.
  32. ^ "Pallas Projects - Stephanie Syjuco—Unsolicited Fabrications: Shareware Sculptures". pallasprojects.org. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
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