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.
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]
2008 Perspectives Series 164: Total Fabrications, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
Bibliographyedit
See, Sarita E. The Filipino primitive : accumulation and resistance in the American museum. New York: New York University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780811835411
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. ISBN 9781479842667
Johnstone, Mark, and Leslie Holzman. Epicenter : San Francisco Bay area art now. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002. ISBN 9781907804861
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^"Stephanie Syjuco". Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). Retrieved 2024-04-01.
^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)
^"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.
^Crow, Kelly (15 October 2009). "Frieze Art Fair Opens to Steady Sales, Gray Art". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 January 2019.