- Particulate Matter: Things, Thingys, ThingiesInstallation view at Gallery 400, Chicago2010Handmade fabrications of anonymously-designed and unknown digital objects found on a public databaseMixed media (cardboard, foamcore, colored paper, fabric), wooden pallets, digital video projection, exhibition checklistdimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and the University of Illinois Chicago
© Stephanie Syjuco
- Particulate Matter: Things, Thingys, Thingies (detail)Installation view at Gallery 400, Chicago2010Handmade fabrications of anonymously-designed and unknown digital objects found on a public databaseMixed media (cardboard, foamcore, colored paper, fabric), wooden pallets, digital video projection, exhibition checklistdimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and the University of Illinois Chicago
© Stephanie Syjuco
- RAIDERS: International Booty, Bountiful Harvest (Selections from the Collection of the A____ A__ M_____)Installation view at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco2011Digital archival photos downloaded and printed from a museum database without permission, mounted onto lasercut wood, hardware, cratesdimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
© Stephanie Syjuco
- RAIDERS: International Booty, Bountiful Harvest (Selections from the Collection of the A____ A__ M_____) (detail)Installation view at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco2011Digital archival photos downloaded and printed from a museum database without permission, mounted onto lasercut wood, hardware, cratesdimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
© Stephanie Syjuco
- ShadowshopInstallation view: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art2011Five-month temporary vending installation featuring work by 200+ Bay Area artists addressing issues of commodification and the art world
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© Stephanie Syjuco
- Shadowshop (detail)Installation view: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art2011Five-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
- notMoMA2011Partial 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
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Instructions for the activation of this project in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of ArtPhoto: Stephanie Syjuco
- FREE TEXTS: An Open Source Reading RoomInstallation view: ZERO1 Garage2012 – ongoingBulletin 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
- FREE TEXTS: An Open Source Reading Room (detail)Installation view: ZERO1 Garage2012 – ongoingBulletin 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
- Cargo Cults: Object AgentsInstallation view: Bemis Center for the Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE2013Mixed media sculpture, installation, and printsdimensions variable
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© Stephanie Syjuco
- Ornament + Crime (Villa Savoye)2013Digital 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 audio22 minutes
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© Stephanie Syjuco
- This is Not the Berlin Wall2014Hand-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
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Produced at Kronika Center for Contemporary Art, Bytom, Poland© Stephanie Syjuco
- Market ForcesInstallation view: Temple Contemporary art gallery at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA2014Participatory installation, Powerpoint presentations, and workshops featuring hundreds of paper reproductions of Philadelphia black market items, and the circulation of an alternate currencydimensions variable
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Created in collaboration with students from the Fox School of Business and Tyler School of Art Printmaking Department, organized by Amze EmmonsPhoto: Stephanie Syjuco
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- Market Forces (detail, students at work)Installation view: Temple Contemporary art gallery at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA2014Participatory installation, Powerpoint presentations, and workshops featuring hundreds of paper reproductions of Philadelphia black market items and the circulation of an alternate currencydimensions variable
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Created in collaboration with students from the Fox School of Business and Tyler School of Art Printmaking Department, organized by Amze EmmonsPhoto: Stephanie Syjuco
© Stephanie Syjuco
- American Rubble (Lancaster Avenue)(detail)2014Display cases, collected samples of urban rubble sourced from gentrifying areas of Philadelphia, archive labels, postcards with text written and researched by Haverford College students
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Part of a Mellon Creative Fellowship Residency organized by Paul Farber at Haverford College, PA© Stephanie Syjuco
- American Rubble (Lancaster Avenue)Installation view: Haverford College, Pennsylvania2014Display cases, collected samples of urban rubble sourced from gentrifying areas of Philadelphia, archive labels, postcards with text written and researched by Haverford College students
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Part of a Mellon Creative Fellowship Residency organized by Paul Farber at Haverford College, PA© Stephanie Syjuco
- Modern Ruins (Popular Cannibals)2014Double-sided installation recreating iconic Modernist furniture and protest props, using cast-off materials scavenged from the dumpdimensions variable
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Held in conjunction with a four-month residency at Recology San Francisco© Stephanie Syjuco
- Modern Ruins (Popular Cannibals)(detail)2014Double-sided installation recreating iconic Modernist furniture and protest props, using cast-off materials scavenged from the dumpdimensions variable
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Held in conjunction with a four-month residency at Recology San Francisco© Stephanie Syjuco
- Money Factory (An Economic Reality Game)Installation view: Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan2015Participatory installation and production space examining economic stagnation and consumer desire: offset prints, scissors, glue, tables, chairs3000 square foot installation
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© Stephanie Syjuco
- Money Factory (An Economic Reality Game) (detail)Installation view: Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan2015Participatory installation and production space examining economic stagnation and consumer desire: offset prints, scissors, glue, tables, chairs3000 square foot installation
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© Stephanie Syjuco
- Empire GardensInstallation view2015 – ongoingResearch project involving growing crops significant to the formation of historical empire, colonization, and the Industrial RevolutionPhotographic 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
- Applicant Photos (Migrants) #32016Archival pigment print4 1/2 × 3 inches
Courtesy of the artist, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
© Stephanie Syjuco
- Cargo Cults (Cover-Up)2016From 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 costumeArchival pigment print20 × 15 inches
Courtesy of the artist, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
© Stephanie Syjuco
- Cargo Cults (Headbundle)2016From 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 costumeArchival pigment print40 × 30 inches
Courtesy of the artist, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
© Stephanie Syjuco
- Cargo Cults (Java Bunny)2016From 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 costumeArchival pigment print40 × 30 inches
Courtesy of the artist, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
© Stephanie Syjuco
- Neutral Orchids (Phalaenopsis, small)2016Archival pigment print20 × 15 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
© Stephanie Syjuco
- Neutral Calibration Studies (Ornament + Crime)Installation view: Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco2016Wooden 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 paint10 × 20 × 8 feet
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
Photo: Stephanie Syjuco
© Stephanie Syjuco
- Neutral Calibration Studies (Ornament + Crime) (detail)Installation view: Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco2016Wooden 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 paint10 × 20 × 8 feet
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
Photo: Stephanie Syjuco
© Stephanie Syjuco
- Visible Effects of the Invisible (Spanish Colonial Silver, Vitrine Fragment)2017Digital 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
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© Stephanie Syjuco
- Chromakey Aftermath 1 & 2Installation view of the exhibition "Stephanie Syjuco: CITIZENS" at RYAN LEE, New York2017Archival pigment prints36 × 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
- Chromakey Aftermath 12017Archival pigment print36 × 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
- Total Transparency Filter (Portrait of N)2017Archival pigment print30 × 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
- Ungovernable (Hoist) (left) and Ungovernable (Fold) (right)Installation view of the exhibition "Stephanie Syjuco: CITIZENS" at RYAN LEE, New York2017Sewn muslin and steel armaturesdimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
© Stephanie Syjuco
- Total Transparency Background (detail)Installation view of the exhibition "Stephanie Syjuco: CITIZENS" at RYAN LEE, New York2017Sewn quilted cotton13 × 26 feet
Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
© Stephanie Syjuco
- Total Transparency Background (detail)Installation view of the exhibition "Stephanie Syjuco: CITIZENS" at RYAN LEE, New York2017Sewn quilted cotton13 × 26 feet
Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
© Stephanie Syjuco
- CITIZEN (Portrait of S)2017A series of fictional portraits of anti-fascist activists, developed with and modeled by students who witnessed campus protestsArchival digital print30 × 40 inches
Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
© Stephanie Syjuco
- CITIZEN (Portrait of P)2017A series of fictional portraits of anti-fascist activists, developed with and modeled by students who witnessed campus protestsArchival pigment inkjet40 × 30 inches
Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
© Stephanie Syjuco
- CITIZEN (Portrait of R)2017A series of fictional portraits of anti-fascist activists, developed with and modeled by students who witnessed campus protestsArchival pigment inkjet40 × 30 inches
Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
© Stephanie Syjuco
- I Am An…Installation view of the exhibition "Stephanie Syjuco: CITIZENS" at RYAN LEE, New York2017An 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 citizenshipSewn cotton panel on moveable ceiling track9 × 24 feet
Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
© Stephanie Syjuco
- Rogue StatesInstallation view of the exhibition "This Site is Under Revolution" at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art2018A 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 unstableTwenty-two digitally printed flags5 × 3 feet each
Courtesy of the artist
© Stephanie Syjuco