Stephanie Syjuco (born 1974, in Manila, Philippines), is a Filipino-American conceptual artist and educator. She currently lives and works in

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Career

Syjuco's artwork explores the friction between the authentic and the counterfeit, addressing political concerns regarding issues of labor and economies within the capitalist system. In 2009 she created ''Copystand: An autonomous manufacturing zone'' for the

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in London.

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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." She is an assistant professor at the

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. She is represented by

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in San Francisco. Her work is in the collection of the

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, Di rosa, and the

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. She is the recipient of a 2014

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in Visual Arts and a 2009

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Painters and Sculptors Program grant. In 2018, she was featured in the San Francisco Bay Area episode of PBS's Art21: Art in the 21st Century. In 2011 Syjuco made Re-Edition Texts: Heart of Darkness. In September 2019 Syjuco opened a large solo exhibition titled ''Rogue States'' at the

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Education

Stephanie Syjuco studied at the Skowhegen School of Painting and Sculpture (1997), the

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(BFA 1995), and Stanford University (MFA 2005).

Selected exhibitions

Exhibitions include a show at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, "Being: New Photography" at the

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, New York, "Public Knowledge," at the

, ''Disrupting Craft: The Renwick Invitational'' (2018-2019) at the

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, and This site is under Revolution the

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. * 2017 ''CITIZENS'', Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, New York * 2016 ''Neutral Calibration Studies (Ornament + Crime)'', Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California * 2013 ''RAIDERS Redux'', Catharine Clark Gallery Project Space, New York, New York * 2011 Currents Series: Stephanie Syjuco: Pattern Migration, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio * 2011 ''RAIDERS'', Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California * 2010 ''notMOMA'', Washington State University, Pullman, Washington * 2009 ''1969'', PS1, New York * 2009 ''Unsolicited Fabrications'', Pallas Contemporary Projects with 126 Artist-run Gallery, Dublin, Ireland * 2008 Perspectives Series 164: Total Fabrications, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas

Bibliography

*See, Sarita E. ''The Filipino primitive : accumulation and resistance in the American museum''. New York: New York University Press, 2017. *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. *Syjuco, Stephanie. ''Comparative Morphologies: Complete Variations''. 2008. *Syjuco, Stephanie. ''Misproductions: Stephanie Syjuco.'' 2006. *Johnstone, Mark, and Leslie Holzman. ''Epicenter : San Francisco Bay area art now''. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002.

Notes

External links

Stephanie Syjuco's websiteStephanie Syjuco in "San Francisco Bay Area"
Art21
Interview with Stephanie Syjuco
MoMA Audio: Being: New Photography 2018
Counterfeit Crochet ProjectStephanie Syjuco
SPARK episode

at th
Columbus Museum of Art
curated by Lisa Dent, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art
Reframed: Artists Seeking Social Change Bring the Public into the Picture
KQED video
‘Alien She’ Exhibit Explores the Connection Between Punk Rock and Fine Art
KQED article
Stephanie Syjuco artist talk: “Patterned Migration” at Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, June 12, 2014
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