Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship. 

Syjuco received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford University. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award, and a Tiffany Foundation Award. Her work is in numerous collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Metropolitan Museum, NY; Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; among others. She was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of American History, Washington, DC in 2019-20, and is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. A long-time educator, she is an Associate Professor in Sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley.