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Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, installation, and moving handmade craft-inspired mediums. Her work focuses on photography and image-based processes that explore construction in racialized and exclusionary narratives in American history and citizenship. She is a recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship Award, Tiffany Foundation Award, and Joan Mitchell Painters Sculptors Award. She was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, during 2019-20, and was featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary series Art21: Art Twenty-First Century. Syjuco's artist monograph, “Stephanie Syjuco: The Unruly Archive,” released by Radius Books, features images and research produced during her fellowship. Born in the Philippines, she received her MFA from Stanford University and a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Syjuco's work is included in major collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Getty Museum. A long-time educator, she has taught courses in sculpture and photography at the University of California, Berkeley, where she oversaw the Sculpture area and Project Lab. Syjuco is affiliated with the Center for Southeast Asia Studies and the Center for Race and Gender.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Teaches and oversees Sculpture and Project Lab within the Department of Art Practice.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.