Artwork Survey: 2010s

Stephanie Syjuco

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  1. Particulate Matter: Things, Thingys, Thingies
    Installation view at Gallery 400, Chicago
    2010
    Handmade fabrications of anonymously-designed and unknown digital objects found on a public database
    Mixed media (cardboard, foamcore, colored paper, fabric), wooden pallets, digital video projection, exhibition checklist
    dimensions variable

    Courtesy of the artist and the University of Illinois Chicago

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  2. Particulate Matter: Things, Thingys, Thingies (detail)
    Installation view at Gallery 400, Chicago
    2010
    Handmade fabrications of anonymously-designed and unknown digital objects found on a public database
    Mixed media (cardboard, foamcore, colored paper, fabric), wooden pallets, digital video projection, exhibition checklist
    dimensions variable

    Courtesy of the artist and the University of Illinois Chicago

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  3. RAIDERS: International Booty, Bountiful Harvest (Selections from the Collection of the A____ A__ M_____)
    Installation view at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
    2011
    Digital archival photos downloaded and printed from a museum database without permission, mounted onto lasercut wood, hardware, crates
    dimensions variable

    Courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  4. RAIDERS: International Booty, Bountiful Harvest (Selections from the Collection of the A____ A__ M_____) (detail)
    Installation view at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
    2011
    Digital archival photos downloaded and printed from a museum database without permission, mounted onto lasercut wood, hardware, crates
    dimensions variable

    Courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  5. Shadowshop
    Installation view: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    2011
    Five-month temporary vending installation featuring work by 200+ Bay Area artists addressing issues of commodification and the art world

    Courtesy of the artist

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  6. Shadowshop (detail)
    Installation view: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    2011
    Five-month temporary vending installation featuring work by 200+ Bay Area artists addressing issues of commodification and the art world

    Courtesy of the artist

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  7. notMoMA
    2011
    Partial installation view at Washington State University Pullman, Washington, showing thirty-two student-made approximations of iconic artworks in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art New York

    Courtesy of the artist

    Instructions for the activation of this project in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art

    Photo: Stephanie Syjuco

  8. FREE TEXTS: An Open Source Reading Room
    Installation view: ZERO1 Garage
    2012 – ongoing
    Bulletin board featuring flyers that offer texts on copyright and the commons; reading area, production desk, bookshelves, thermal-bound books, and ongoing PDF collection

    Commissioned by the ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, CA (September 12-December 5, 2012)

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  9. FREE TEXTS: An Open Source Reading Room (detail)
    Installation view: ZERO1 Garage
    2012 – ongoing
    Bulletin board featuring flyers that offer texts on copyright and the commons; reading area, production desk, bookshelves, thermal-bound books, and ongoing PDF collection

    Commissioned by the ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, CA (September 12-December 5, 2012)

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  10. Cargo Cults: Object Agents
    Installation view: Bemis Center for the Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
    2013
    Mixed media sculpture, installation, and prints
    dimensions variable

    Courtesy of the artist

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  11. Ornament + Crime (Villa Savoye)
    2013
    Digital model of Le Corbusier’s iconic building, Ville Savoye, wrapped in French colonial-era textile patterns (Vietnamese, Algerian and Moroccan)
    HD video of digital 3D animation with audio
    22 minutes

    Courtesy of the artist

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  12. This is Not the Berlin Wall
    2014
    Hand-painted false souvenirs of the Berlin Wall made from Soviet-era buildings and rubble in Poland, to be inserted into the market as the "real" thing; produced on-site using locally-sourced materials, poster paint, and color laserjet prints

    Courtesy of the artist

    Produced at Kronika Center for Contemporary Art, Bytom, Poland

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  13. Market Forces
    Installation view: Temple Contemporary art gallery at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
    2014
    Participatory installation, Powerpoint presentations, and workshops featuring hundreds of paper reproductions of Philadelphia black market items, and the circulation of an alternate currency
    dimensions variable

    Courtesy of the artist

    Created in collaboration with students from the Fox School of Business and Tyler School of Art Printmaking Department, organized by Amze Emmons

    Photo: Stephanie Syjuco

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  14. Market Forces (detail, students at work)
    Installation view: Temple Contemporary art gallery at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
    2014
    Participatory installation, Powerpoint presentations, and workshops featuring hundreds of paper reproductions of Philadelphia black market items and the circulation of an alternate currency
    dimensions variable

    Courtesy of the artist

    Created in collaboration with students from the Fox School of Business and Tyler School of Art Printmaking Department, organized by Amze Emmons

    Photo: Stephanie Syjuco

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  15. American Rubble (Lancaster Avenue)
    (detail)
    2014
    Display cases, collected samples of urban rubble sourced from gentrifying areas of Philadelphia, archive labels, postcards with text written and researched by Haverford College students

    Courtesy of the artist

    Part of a Mellon Creative Fellowship Residency organized by Paul Farber at Haverford College, PA

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  16. American Rubble (Lancaster Avenue)
    Installation view: Haverford College, Pennsylvania
    2014
    Display cases, collected samples of urban rubble sourced from gentrifying areas of Philadelphia, archive labels, postcards with text written and researched by Haverford College students

    Courtesy of the artist

    Part of a Mellon Creative Fellowship Residency organized by Paul Farber at Haverford College, PA

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  17. Modern Ruins (Popular Cannibals)
    2014
    Double-sided installation recreating iconic Modernist furniture and protest props, using cast-off materials scavenged from the dump
    dimensions variable

    Courtesy of the artist

    Held in conjunction with a four-month residency at Recology San Francisco

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  18. Modern Ruins (Popular Cannibals)
    (detail)
    2014
    Double-sided installation recreating iconic Modernist furniture and protest props, using cast-off materials scavenged from the dump
    dimensions variable

    Courtesy of the artist

    Held in conjunction with a four-month residency at Recology San Francisco

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  19. Money Factory (An Economic Reality Game)
    Installation view: Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
    2015
    Participatory installation and production space examining economic stagnation and consumer desire: offset prints, scissors, glue, tables, chairs
    3000 square foot installation

    Courtesy of the artist

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  20. Money Factory (An Economic Reality Game) (detail)
    Installation view: Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
    2015
    Participatory installation and production space examining economic stagnation and consumer desire: offset prints, scissors, glue, tables, chairs
    3000 square foot installation

    Courtesy of the artist

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  21. Empire Gardens
    Installation view
    2015 – ongoing
    Research project involving growing crops significant to the formation of historical empire, colonization, and the Industrial Revolution
    Photographic lighting kits, mylar, grow bulbs, timers, hardware, furniture, and heirloom seeds including tobacco, indigo, poppy, cotton, and more

    Courtesy of the artist

    Photo: Stephanie Syjuco

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  22. Applicant Photos (Migrants) #3
    2016
    Archival pigment print
    4 1/2 × 3 inches

    Courtesy of the artist, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  23. Cargo Cults (Cover-Up)
    2016
    From the series "Cargo Cults," this work revisits historical ethnographic studio portraiture via fictional display: using mass-manufactured goods purchased from American shopping malls and restyled to highlight popular fantasies associated with “ethnic” patterning and costume
    Archival pigment print
    20 × 15 inches

    Courtesy of the artist, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  24. Cargo Cults (Headbundle)
    2016
    From the series "Cargo Cults," this work revisits historical ethnographic studio portraiture via fictional display: using mass-manufactured goods purchased from American shopping malls and restyled to highlight popular fantasies associated with “ethnic” patterning and costume
    Archival pigment print
    40 × 30 inches

    Courtesy of the artist, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  25. Cargo Cults (Java Bunny)
    2016
    From the series "Cargo Cults," this work revisits historical ethnographic studio portraiture via fictional display: using mass-manufactured goods purchased from American shopping malls and restyled to highlight popular fantasies associated with “ethnic” patterning and costume
    Archival pigment print
    40 × 30 inches

    Courtesy of the artist, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  26. Neutral Orchids (Phalaenopsis, small)
    2016
    Archival pigment print
    20 × 15 inches

    Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  27. Neutral Calibration Studies (Ornament + Crime)
    Installation view: Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
    2016
    Wooden platform, neutral grey seamless backdrop paper, digital adhesive prints on lasercut wooden props, dye-sublimation digital prints on fabric, items purchased on eBay and Craigslist, photographic prints, artificial plants, live plants, neutral calibrated gray paint
    10 × 20 × 8 feet

    Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco

    Photo: Stephanie Syjuco

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  28. Neutral Calibration Studies (Ornament + Crime) (detail)
    Installation view: Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
    2016
    Wooden platform, neutral grey seamless backdrop paper, digital adhesive prints on lasercut wooden props, dye-sublimation digital prints on fabric, items purchased on eBay and Craigslist, photographic prints, artificial plants, live plants, neutral calibrated gray paint
    10 × 20 × 8 feet

    Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco

    Photo: Stephanie Syjuco

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  29. Visible Effects of the Invisible (Spanish Colonial Silver, Vitrine Fragment)
    2017
    Digital 3D captures of colonial-era decorative objects using a hand-held cellphone and restricted by museum photography rules, at the M.H. deYoung Museum, San Francisco

    Courtesy of the artist

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  30. Chromakey Aftermath 1 & 2
    Installation view of the exhibition "Stephanie Syjuco: CITIZENS" at RYAN LEE, New York
    2017
    Archival pigment prints
    36 × 24 inches each

    Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    Re-fabricated objects based on the physical residue found after public protests

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  31. Chromakey Aftermath 1
    2017
    Archival pigment print
    36 × 24 inches

    Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    Re-fabricated objects based on the physical residue found after public protests

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  32. Total Transparency Filter (Portrait of N)
    2017
    Archival pigment print
    30 × 40 inches

    Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    Portrait of an undocumented individual who received her college education through DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), and who’s status in the United States is now under threat; cloaked under protective anonymity, she occupies a tenuous space between invisibility and visibility

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  33. Ungovernable (Hoist) (left) and Ungovernable (Fold) (right)
    Installation view of the exhibition "Stephanie Syjuco: CITIZENS" at RYAN LEE, New York
    2017
    Sewn muslin and steel armatures
    dimensions variable

    Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  34. Total Transparency Background (detail)
    Installation view of the exhibition "Stephanie Syjuco: CITIZENS" at RYAN LEE, New York
    2017
    Sewn quilted cotton
    13 × 26 feet

    Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  35. Total Transparency Background (detail)
    Installation view of the exhibition "Stephanie Syjuco: CITIZENS" at RYAN LEE, New York
    2017
    Sewn quilted cotton
    13 × 26 feet

    Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  36. CITIZEN (Portrait of S)
    2017
    A series of fictional portraits of anti-fascist activists, developed with and modeled by students who witnessed campus protests
    Archival digital print
    30 × 40 inches

    Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  37. CITIZEN (Portrait of P)
    2017
    A series of fictional portraits of anti-fascist activists, developed with and modeled by students who witnessed campus protests
    Archival pigment inkjet
    40 × 30 inches

    Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  38. CITIZEN (Portrait of R)
    2017
    A series of fictional portraits of anti-fascist activists, developed with and modeled by students who witnessed campus protests
    Archival pigment inkjet
    40 × 30 inches

    Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  39. I Am An…
    Installation view of the exhibition "Stephanie Syjuco: CITIZENS" at RYAN LEE, New York
    2017
    An inverted copy of a sign posted by a Japanese American business owner in Oakland, California following the bombing of Pearl Harbor; the original photograph was taken by Dorothea Lange, and the shopkeeper was subsequently taken to an internment camp despite his plea of citizenship
    Sewn cotton panel on moveable ceiling track
    9 × 24 feet

    Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

    © Stephanie Syjuco

  40. Rogue States
    Installation view of the exhibition "This Site is Under Revolution" at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
    2018
    A configuration of fictional flags of made-up countries from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central and South America, all culled from American and European movies that position these countries as terrorist, backward, resistant, or unstable
    Twenty-two digitally printed flags
    5 × 3 feet each

    Courtesy of the artist

    © Stephanie Syjuco