Steffanie A. Padilla is a Mexican-American artist (b.1989), photographer & educator based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts Photography from Rhode Island School of Design (2021) and a Bachelor's of Fine Arts from California State University, Long Beach (2016). Currently she works as the Education Program Coordinator at the California Museum of Photography and Barbara + Art Culver Center of the Arts @UCR ARTS

Clients / Press
New York Times, The Wire Magazine (UK), Cream Magazine (MX), Capricious

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

Workshops 
3D Magic: Exploring Photography w/Stereo Images & Virtual Reality, ArtsMatter, Los Angeles, 2024
Inspired by Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World, 2024
Program Educator, Off the Block Documentary, 2023/2024
Storytelling Through Photography: Christina Fernandez (2022), Jon Henry (2023)
Photographic Discovery: Graciela Iturbide, Home Gardens Library, Corona, CA, 2022

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/literacy, technology, neuroscience, youth & popular culture, sustainability, animal rights.

Work:

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