CV — STEPHANIE H. SHIH (original) (raw)
AWARDS AND HONORS
2025 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY
2024 Residency, The Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York, NY
2023 Arts/Industry Residency, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2023 Installation residency, Manitoga/The Russel Wright Design Center, Garrison, NY
2023 Finalist, UOVO Prize, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Residency, Silver Art Projects, New York, NY
2022 Fellowship, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2020 Grant, American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Pomona CA
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Lateral Hazard, with Paul Kremer, Myrtle Beach Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC (forthcoming)
2025 Invisible Hand, Soco Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2025 Domestic Bliss, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
2023 American Gothic, Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Greetings from Gold Mountain, Berggruen, San Francisco, CA
2022 My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks, Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse, NY
2022 Open Sundays, Harkawik, New York, NY
2021 Solo presentation, NADA Miami, presented by Sebastian Gladstone, Miami, FL
2021 New World Mall, Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Same Same, online viewing room, Perrotin, New York, NY
2019 假/家, Wieden+Kennedy Gallery, Portland, OR
2017 A Strong Tide and Other Homes, Duke Riley Studio, Brooklyn, NY
INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2026 Everyday Is All There Is, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME
2026 Absence Takes Form, curated by Adrienne Spinozzi (Metropolitan Museum of Art), presented by National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI
2026 Dis/orient: Contemporary art of the Asian Diaspora , Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
2025 FOMO Block Party, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
2025 Spirit House, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2025 Living Here, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
2025 A Beautiful Experience: The Midwest Grotto Tradition, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2025 The Vessel Revisited: Fundamental Forms in Contemporary Ceramics, Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA
2024 Dwelling: New Acquisitions, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
2024 Spirit House, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
2024 Fruits of Their Labor: Work and Leisure, Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse, NY
2024 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
2023 Without Apology: Asian American Selves, Memories, Futures, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (catalog)
2023 WARES! Extraordinary Ceramics and the Ordinary Home, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2022 People/Places/Things, Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR
2021 In Dialogue, Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Here and Now, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
2020 Making in Between: Contemporary Chinese American Ceramics, American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Pomona, CA
2019 On Growing up in a Chinatown Store, Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 55 Years: Isn’t That Long Enough?, Berggruen, San Francisco, CA
2024 The Superfluity of Things, James Cohan, New York, NY
2024 Teach Me How to Fish, Art Intelligence Global, Hong Kong
2024 California Gold, Berggruen, San Francisco, CA
2024 Vanitas, Chart, New York, NY
2023 Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
2023 Levity, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
2023 Clay Pop, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Ripe, Harper’s, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
2022 At the Table, Christie’s, New York, NY
2022 The Congregation, Peter Augustus, Dallas, TX
2021 House Party, curated by Karen Wong and Jillian Choi, Phillip Lim, New York, NY
2021 Home Cooking, curated by John Yau, LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA (catalog)
2021 Phase Three: Matthew F. Fisher and Stephanie H. Shih, The Hole, East Hampton, NY
2021 Vessel, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2021 In Good Taste, Dinner Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Nature Morte, The Hole, New York, NY
2020 Full House, presented by Cultured Magazine, R & Company, Miami, FL
2020 How to Read the World, online exhibition, Micki Meng, San Francisco, CA
2020 The Chinatown Collection, Care of Chan, New York, NY
2019 Fur Cup, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Potluck, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2018 Brooklyn Fortune Cookie Co., Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
COMMISSIONS
2027 TBA, public art commission, stained-glass mosaic, Brooklyn, NY
2026 TBA, museum commission, stained-glass mosaic, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2025 Museum commission, Toy Building, found-object mosaic sculpture, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2022 Finalist, public art commission, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY
BOOKS AND JOURNALS
2024 アジア系アメリカを知るための52章 (53 Chapters for Understanding Asian America), “Asian Americans and Art,” by Satoko Ezaki, Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, pp. 214–15
2024 Typhoon: In the Eye of Taiwan’s New Artistic Whirlwinds, “Stephanie H. Shih: Sculpted Memories from Transnational Aisles,” Copenhagen: Tofu Collective, Copenhagen, pp. 131–139
2024 What We Keep, Jean Lin and Brooke Holm, New York: Abrams Books, pp. 76–79
2023 Art Journal, “Pangs of Intimate Recognition,” Michelle Yee, Taylor & Francis, pp. 8–21
2023 Clay Pop, Alia Dahl, New York: Rizzoli Electa, pp. 192–197
2023 Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and Rhetorics of Racial Consumption, Jennifer Lin LeMesurier, Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, cover
2022 At the Artisan’s Table, Jane Schulak and David Stark, New York: Vendome Press, pp. 245–255
2022 At the Table, Civil Art, introduction by Ho Jae Kim and Sarah Han, New York: Crosstown Press, cover
2022 Music as Mao’s Weapon, Lei X. Ouyang, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, cover
SELECTED PRESS
2025 Colossal, “Fragments of the Chinese Diaspora Converge in Stephanie Shih’s Mosaic Sculptures,” Sep 15
2025 Galerie Magazine, “Midwest Grottos Were DIY Masterpieces Hiding in Plain Sight,” Jul 3
2025 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, _“_Stephanie H. Shih's art pays homage to a legendary Milwaukee restaurant of the past,” Jun 23
2025 Whitehot Magazine, “Cacophony of Domestic Angst,” Mar 15
2025 Yale University Radio, “Interview with Stephanie H. Shih,” Feb 25
2025 Hyperallergic, “Five NYC Art Shows to See This Week,” Feb 17
2025 Hyperallergic, “Stephanie H. Shih’s Time Capsules of the Heart,” Feb 12
2025 New York Times, “Household Objects of the ’90s, Recreated in Clay,” Jan 23
2024 Crafts (UK), “Stephanie H. Shih: Comfort Food,” Spring/Summer 2024, pp. 186–192
2024 Patron, “Art's Global Era: 10 Standout Artists at Dallas Art Fair,” Apr/May 2024, p. 84
2023 San Francisco Chronicle, “Stephanie H. Shih’s Ceramics Imbue Simple Objects with Meaning, Beauty,” Mar 9, pp. B9, B14
2021 Hyperallergic, “Step into a Pantry of Ceramic Groceries,” Aug 25
2021 Los Angeles Times, “Artist Challenges Notions of Authenticity, Recreating Western Grocery Items That ‘Feel’ Asian,” Aug 8, p. FO3
2021 W, “Hennessy, Heinz, Spam: Artist Stephanie Shih Honors Asian Kitchen Staples,” Aug 4
2021 Artsy, “16 Rising Artists of the Asian Diaspora in the United States,” May 19
2021 Bon Appetit, “For Stephanie H. Shih, There’s No Such Thing as Art Without Activism,” Apr 1
2020 Brooklyn Rail, “Weekend Journal #62: On the Spot with Stephanie H. Shih,” Nov 15
2020 Artsy, ”17 Contemporary Artists Reimagining the Still Life,” Aug 7
2020 The Guardian (UK), “Good Enough to Eat: Asian American Groceries as Ceramics,” Jun 28, p. 6
2020 Hyperallergic, “The White Melting Pot,” Jun 27
2020 Cultured Magazine, “Ceramic Artist Stephanie H. Shih on the Meaning of Memory and Clay,” Jun 26
2020 New York Times, “An Ode to Manhattan’s Chinatown,” Jan 27
2019 Vogue, “Food for Thought: On the Surprising Appeal of Inedible Art,” Dec 20
2019 Los Angeles Times, “Good Enough to Eat: Meet the Artist Who Wants to Open a Grocery Store,” Sep 26, p. F8
2019 Garage, “Stephanie H. Shih’s Food Ceramics Nourish Asian-American Memory,” May 10
2018 NPR, “Through Food Art, Asian-Americans Stop ‘Pushing Heritage to the Back Burner,’” Jan 4
LECTURES, CRITIQUES, AND PANELS
2025 “Inside Representation," panelist, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, Feb 13
2024 Seminar, Museum Education Fellowship Program, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Apr 26
2024 Artist talk, Hunter College, New York, NY, Mar 5
2024 Artist talk, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, Feb 29
2023 “Clay Pop,” panelist, Rizzoli, New York, NY, Apr 14
2023 “Scattered Rice: Food, Plants, and Art in the Asian Diaspora,” in conversation with Lily C. Wong (Syracuse University) and Melissa Yuen (curator, SUAM), Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse, NY, Mar 31
2022 Critiques and workshop, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, Nov 2–3
2022 Artist talk, Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR, Nov 2
2022 In conversation with Melissa Yuen (curator, SUAM), Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse, NY, Sep 14
2022 Artist talk, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY, Sep 11
2022 Artist talk, critiques, and workshop, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Mar 10
2021 Artist talk, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov 16
2021 Artist talk and graduate critiques, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Oct 18–19
2021 Graduate critiques, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, Oct 13
2021 Artist talk, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, Sep 29
2020 “Asia at Large,” in conversation with Aleesa Alexander (Stanford University) and Soleil Ho (San Francisco Chronicle), Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Sep 1
2020 “Art, Activism, Community, Change,” in conversation with Mei Lum (Wing On Wo & Co.), American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Pomona, CA, Aug 26
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse, NY