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.
2016 solo exhibition at Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco2012 installation at Fort Point, San Francisco2012 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]
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]
2008 Perspectives Series 164: Total Fabrications, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
Bibliography
Syjuco, Stephanie. Stephanie Syjuco: The Unruly Archives. 2024 ISBN 9798890180766
See, Sarita E. The Filipino primitive: accumulation and resistance in the American museum. New York: New York University Press, 2017. ISBN9780811835411
Hart, Dakin, and Jenny Dixon. Museum of stones: ancient and contemporary art at the Noguchi Museum. New York London: The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in association with D Giles Limited, 2016. ISBN9781479842667
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