STEPHANIE SYJUCO

Born: 1974 Manila, Philippines

Lives and works in San Francisco, CA

 

EDUCATION:

 

2005    MFA Stanford University

1997    Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

1995    BFA San Francisco Art Institute

1994    New York Study Program, Association of Independent Colleges of Art and

                        Design (in affiliation with parsons School of Design), New York, NY

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

 

2005    Black Market, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

2002    Transmogrified, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

2000    Proxies, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

1999    Set-Ups and Spoils, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

 

1998    a little death, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

 

1997    John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2007    Fashion Hackers and Haute Couture Heretics, Garanti Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

            Galleon Trade, Green Papaya Gallery, Manila, Philippines

            Altered States: Packard Jennings, Scott Kildall, and Stephanie Syjuco, Kala Art Center, Berkeley, CA

            Forged Realities, UniversalStudios Gallery, Beijing, China; curated by Pauline Yao

            Faction, Playspace Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.

            Take 2: Women Reinterpret Art History, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA. Curated by Janet Bishop, SFMOMA

            Counterfeits, Paper Boat Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

 

2006    Altered, Stitched & Gathered, PS1, New York

            It's a Small World, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

            Next/New, ICA, San Jose, CA

            Four on One: Four Curators Curate Stephanie Syjuco The Garage Biennale, San Francisco, CA

            Filipiniana Siglio XX, CASA ASIA Gallery, Madrid, Spain

            Alimatuan: the Emerging Artist as Filipino, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

 

2005    Pirated: A Post Asian Perspective, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

            Ad Infinitum: The Aesthetics of Repetition II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Personal Mythologies, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

            Practice Makes Perfect: Conceptual Craft, Southern Exposure Gallery, San

                        Francisco, CA

            Paper Pushers, UC Davis Art Gallery, Davis, CA       

            Political Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

 

2004    Murphy Cadogan Fellowship Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission

                        Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

            Botany 12, Sonoma County Art Museum, Sonoma, CA

 

2003    Bytes and Pieces: The Art of Contemporary Collage, San Jose Institute of

                        Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

                Hybrid, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Subtle Sight, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA 

            Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 

 

 

SELECTED EXHIBITION CONTINUED:

 

2002    2002 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

                        (Catalogue)

 

2001    LifeLike, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

            Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, TBA

            Eureka, Too! Fellowship Awards 1999-2001, Institute of Contemporary Art, San

                        Jose, CA

            Transmogrified, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 

 

2000    Eureka Fellowship Awards Show, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

                        travelling to the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

                        (2001), catalogue

            New Work: Drawings, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

            Fact/Fiction: Works from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of

                        Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 

            TBA, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

            Word Art Project, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, San Francisco, CA        

            Things Get Dangerous, Blue Books, San Francisco, CA

            Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California, Ansel Adams

                        Center, Friends of Photography, Travelling to California State

                        University, Long Beach, CA Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum,

                        Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue)

 

1999    Fairytales, Center for Metamedia, Plasy, Czech Republic

            ArtCouncil Grant Award Show, Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

            L’Atelier, Haus, San Francisco, CA 

            ORM-B Dream, in collaboration with Kurt Keppeler, Annex, San Francisco, CA

 

1998    Selections, Winter 1998, The Drawing Center, New York, NY catalogue

            Crossings, AT Kearney Corporate Offices, San Francisco, CA 

            At Home and Abroad:  Twenty Contemporary Filipino Artists, Asian Art

                        Museum, San Francisco, CA; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX;

                        University of Honolulu, HI; Metropolitan Museum, Manila, Philipines

                        Catalogue

            SF Babaylan:  An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Eight San Francisco, Bay

                        Area Women Artists, Museo Ng maynil, Manila, Philippines  catalogue

            Landscape and Memory, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Drawings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Sino Ka? Ano Ka?—Who Are You? What Are You? San Francisco State

                        University, San Francisco, CA catalogue

 

SELECTED EXHIBITION CONTINUED:

 

           

1997    To Be Real, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA catalogue

            One night Stand, Hollywood Motel, Los Angeles, CA

            Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA catalogue

 

1996    Dare to be Different, Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA

            Nothing Matters, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA

            X-Sightings ’96, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY

            Snacks: A Yummy Treat, Acme, San Francisco, CA

            Cozy: Notions of Domesticity and Safety, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

 

1995    Super Natural, Push!, San Francisco, CA

           

1994    Exhibitionism, 451 Greenwich St. New York, NY

 

 

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2006    Kala Art Center Artist-In-Residence and Fellowship Award, Berkeley, CA

 

2006    Creative Capital Professional Development Fellowship Award, administered by the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

 

2006    IN/SITE Award Nomination, SFMOMA

 

2003    Murphy/Cadogan Fellowship Award, San Francisco, CA 

            Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Museum Fellowship, Stanford University, CA

 

2001    Eureka Fund Fellowship Award, Fleishhacker Foundation

 

1999    ArtCouncil Grant

            San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award, Fine Art

           

1997    Payson governors Fund fellowship, Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture

            SECA Award Nominee, SFMOMA

 

1992-5 Merit Scholarships, San Francisco Art Institute

           

1991    Sobel Memorial Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute

           

Residencies
2007 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL


2007 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA


2006-7 Kala Art Center, Berkeley, CA

 

Selected Public Collections: 

 

Ansel Adams/Friends of Photography Center, San Francisco, CA

Altoids Corporation, New Jersey

British Airways, San Francisco, CA

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

Di Rosa Perserve, Sonoma, CA

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

The New Museum, New York, NY

Novell, San Jose. CA

Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH

Prudential Realty, Jersey City, New Jersey

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Sprint Corporation, Kansas City, MO

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY