Steffanie A. Padilla is an artist—educator based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Offering services & specializing in photography, concept design, and art direction. Currently, she works at the California Museum of Photography as Museum Education Program Coordinator.
Education
Rhode Island School of Design, Master of Fine Arts Photography, 2021
California State University, Long Beach, Bachelor of Fine Arts Photography, 2016
Awards & Certificate
Collegiate Teaching + Learning Certificate, Rhode Island School of Design
T.C. Colley Scholar for Excellence in Photography Award, Rhode Island School of Design
Teaching Photography & Filmmaking Workshops at UCR ARTS
Digital Capture, PST Getty, (forthcoming) 2024
Program Educator for Off the Block Documentary, 2023
Storytelling Through Photography: Jon Henry, 2023
Storytelling Through Photography: Christina Fernandez, 2022
Clients / Press
The Wire Magazine
Cream Magazine.MX
RISD Museum Grad Show
Capricious
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Every Day We Have to Invent the Reality of This World: AI Post Photography, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA—Alpha Film Festival, Onlookers selected by critic Ben Nicholson (MILC metaverse) / 2022 Milan Machinima Festival MMXXII, Onlookers, curated by Matteo Bittani (online) / 2021 B-Words, ClampArt Gallery, Chelsea, NY—Ask: Our Diverse World, Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (online) The Makeable Mind, Noorderlicht International Fotofestival, Netherlands Time Capsule, Watson Institute, Brown University (online)—RISD Graduate Thesis Show, WaterFire Arts Center, Providence, RI—Memories and How We Hold Them, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI / 2019 I’m People (Concept Creep Post-Internet), The Wurks, Providence, RI Graduate Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI—One, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI—Inaugural, Sample Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC / 2018 Contemporary Photography, CICA Museum, South Korea Taking Pictures, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR / 2017 Winter Works, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA / 2016 Misplacement, Max L. Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA One: Mind, Body, Spirit, Self-Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
Interests: Media Ecology, Sustainability, Health, Technology, Youth and Popular Culture.
Latest Projects
Alphabets© presents: Imperfect Environmentalist Series
Episode #001, featuring Jazmine Rogers, 2024
Art Direction & Produced by Steffanie A. Padilla
Every Day We Have to Invent the Reality of This World—AI Post Photography Group Exihibition
California Museum of Photography
On view 10/07/2023—03/03/2024
Making Off the Block—A Short Documentary
Screened at the Culver Center of the Arts, 2023
Produced, Filmed, and Edited by Steffanie A. Padilla
©2024