Steffanie A. Padilla is a Mexican-American artist and educator based in the Inland Empire and Los Angeles. Currently, she is the Education Program Coordinator at the California Museum of Photography and the Barbara & Art Culver Center at UCR ARTS.
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b. 1989, Riverside, California
Education
Rhode Island School of Design, MFA, Fine Art Photography, 2021
California State University of Long Beach, BFA, Fine Art Photography, 2016
Clients/Press
New York Times, 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
Youth Workshops @UCR ARTS
Media Literacy: Finding Meaning in Visual Storytelling, 2025
Off the Block Documentary Filmmaking Program, 2023-2025
3D Magic: Exploring Photography w/Stereo Images & Virtual Reality, ArtsMatter Professional Development, Los Angeles, 2024
Storytelling Through Photography: Christina Fernandez (2022), Jon Henry (2023), Digital Capture Southern California & the Pixel-Based Image World (2024-2025)
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, psychology, popular culture.