Stephanie Bursese (b.1980, Schenectady, New York) uses printed images, textiles, site-specific installations, book design, sculpture, and other forms to examine behavioral cycles and create visual relationships between physical and psychological space. Her work has appeared in numerous group and solo exhibitions, publications, and museums-nationally and internationally-including The Aperture Foundation, New York; The Print Center, Philadelphia; Expo Chicago; Cornell University, Ithaca; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pitsburg; The University of Virginia, Charlottesville. In 2006 she was a resident at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. She has self-published two books Razor Thin Rock Hard (2013) and Belt and Brace (2015) and was nominated for the 2017 MACK First Book Award. 

Bursese’s practice includes working as a collaborator, strategist, designer, organizer, and project manager for numerous national and local foundations, institutions, funders, and international artists. She has taught in higher education for the last 20 years and recently worked as a Co-Director & Curator of the Pew-funded project Teaching at the End of Times. She received her B.F.A. in Photography/Art History from the University of Florida and an M.F.A. in Photography from Syracuse University. Bursese has been a member of Vox Populi Gallery and Artist Collective for 12 years in Philadelphia, where she lives and works.

Web: www.stephaniebursese.com ; IG: @stephaniebursese

Courses & Workshops: Pattern Recognition: Photography and Embroidery