Detailed Biography

Stephanie Syjuco was born in the Philippines in 1974. She received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has shown nationally and internationally: at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; SFMOMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Asian Art Museum (SF), the San Jose Museum of Art, Southern Exposure, and New Langton Arts, among others. New York exhibitions include The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Museum, and The Drawing Center. She was included in the 2002 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, and is the recipient of a 2004 Murphy Cadogan Fellowship, a Eureka Fleishhacker Fellowship Grant for 2001, and a 1999 ArtCouncil Grant. Her work is in numerous collections, most notable the Whitney Museum, SFMOMA, The New Museum, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Honolulu. Residencies include the Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA), Skowhegan (ME), and the Center for Metamedia, Czech Republic.

What people are saying: "Stephanie Syjuco maps the zones of culture, technology and the natural world, with an eye to mishaps of vision," says Susan Miller, director of San Francisco's New Langton Arts. "She is a superb designer, crafting material, content and concept in an exceptionally developed manner."

(Baker, Kenneth, "On the Verge: Young Bay Area Artists Who Are Ready to Rock. Profile: Stephanie Syjuco," The San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook Section, August 25, 2002)