BIO
Stephanie Washburn lives in Ojai, CA. She works in a range of media including drawing, photography and video. Her work explores materiality, the physical world and representations of nature. Recent projects focus on the landscape genre through the conceptual lens of climate crisis and the urgent task of redefining our relationship to the environment. Recent exhibition highlights include a project at the Taft Botanical Gardens and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Her work has also been included in shows at Praz Delavallade, ACME Gallery, Mark Moore Gallery, Claremont University, MCA Santa Barbara, UC Riverside’s Sweeney Gallery and the Fellows of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. It is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, University of California at Riverside and Santa Barbara, and the Agnes Gund and Frederick Weisman Foundations. Reviews include The Los Angeles Times, New American Paintings, Art Fag City and Vice. Her photographs have been published in Heliotrope, Harper's Magazine, and The LA Review of Books. Washburn received a BA from Wesleyan University, CT and her MFA from University of California, Santa Barbara, CA as a Regents Special Fellow.
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Education
MFA, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 2010 (Regents Special Fellow)
BA, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 2003 (Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude, Honors)
Exhibitions
No Time Like the Present, Praz Delavallade Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2023
Broken Sail, Taft Botanical Gardens Residency, Ojai, CA, 2022 (Solo Project)
Over the Fence, The Architecture Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA, 2022
The Constructed Photograph, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, 2022 (curated by Charlie Wylie)
In the Meanwhile, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 2021 (curated by Julie Joyce)
Recent Acquisitions, Art, Design and Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 2020 (curated by Elyse Gonzales)
The Future Can Only Be Told In Reverse, UC Santa Barbara Creative Studies Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2018
Office of Loss Control, with Armando Ramos, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, 2017 (Two person project)
By the River, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA, 2017
-scape, Beaconsfield, London, UK, 2016
Everyday Transformations, MCA Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 2016
Language of Perpetual Conditions, Cal State Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
Sibling Rivalries, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA, 2016
Drawings: Fridges, Greene Exhibitions, Culver City, CA, 2015
The Yielding , Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2015 (Solo project)
E-Merge, Arsenal, Montreal, Canada, 2015
Works on Paper, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
Coded Image: New Media and Mediated Image, Earl and Virginia Green Gallery, Biola University, CA, 2015
Playdate in Hades, TSA, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
In the Office of the Drunken Monkey, TSA, New York, NY, 2014
Are Friends Electric, FOCA, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 (curated by Manual History Machines) [catalogue]
Are Friends Electric, Claremont University, Claremont, CA, 2014 (curated by Manual History Machines)
Alumni II, Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 2013 (curated by John Ravenal) [catalogue]
Walking Back The Cat, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA 2013 (Solo project)
Essential: Selections from the Permanent Collection, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA 2013 (curated by Tyler Stallings)
This Was Funny Yesterday, UC Santa Barbara Creative Studies Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2012 (curated by Jane Mulfinger)
Ruinophilia, Jane Deering Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2012
Twice Told, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA 2012 (Solo Project)
Reception, Grand Hotel Abyss, Goleta, CA 2012 (curated by Simon Taylor)
Recrafting History, Taylor de Cordoba Gallery, Culver City, CA 2011 (curated by Ellen Caldwell)
Vertigo, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA 2011 (curated by York Chang)
Visible Spectrum, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 3010
Desert Immersion, The Palms Bar, Wonder Valley, CA, 2010 (curated by Dick Hebdige)
Bibliography
Ingon, Madeline, “Submitting to the Sublime,” Lum Magazine, 7/2022
Belknap, Andra, “Shared Studio, Shared Objective,” Ojai Vortex, 5/2022
Cotts, Megan, "Featured artist," Los Angeles Review of Books, 2/2018
Shi, Diana. "Haunting Digital Photography Makes Abstract Art of Surveillance Footage," Vice, 7/8/2017
Woodward, Joseph. "Two of an Imperfect Pair," Santa Barbara News Press, 3/10/2017
Clarkson, Stacey. "Congratulations, You've Made a Wonderful Decision," Monday Gallery, Harper's Magazine, 2/6/2017
Patrick Quinn, "Acme Gallery, By the River," Art and Cake, 2/9/2017
Porter, Lorie, "Ones to Watch: Stephanie Washburn and Chad Ress," Santa Barbara Magazine, June 2015
Pagel, David. "Stephanie Washburn's Collages, Other Works, Mesmerize, Puzzle," Los Angeles Times, 8/15/13
Johnson, Robin. "Centennial Excellence," Inland Empire Weekly, 8/15/13
Woodward, Joseph. “Art As Funny ‘Hmmm,’” Santa Barbara News Press, 10/05/12
Frank, Priscilla. “Stephanie Washburn’s Haunting Exhibition ‘Twice Told’ Debuts at Mark Moore Gallery,” The Huffington Post, 5/15/12
Caldwell, Ellen, “Review. Stephanie Washburn’s “Twice Told” at Mark Moore Gallery,” New American Paintings, 5/10/12
Pagel, David. “Review: Stephanie Washburn Marks Mysteriously Inviting Solo Debut,” Critic’s Choice, The Los Angeles Times, 5/4/12
Sommers, Danielle. “Stephanie Washburn’s Twice Told,” Art Practical, 4/24/12
Sommers, Danielle. “Stephanie Washburn’s Twice Told,” Daily Serving, 4/24/12
Caldwell, Ellen. “Recrafting History,” New American Paintings, 12/15/11
Johnson, Paddy. “Paintings of Horses and a Pen for Collectors,” Art Fag City, 12/05/11
Finkle, Jori. “Monster Drawing Rally,” The Los Angeles Times, 11/09/10
Woodward, Joseph. “Concepts Meeting Concrete,” Santa Barbara News Press, 6/11/10
Mark Muckenfuss. “Art Show ‘Out There,’” Press Enterprise, 3/09/10
Lieu, Lynn. “Lines in the Sand,” Inland Empire Weekly, 3/04/10
Publications
"Portfolios," Heliotrope Editions, France, 2019
"Quarterly Journal, Comedy Issue #17," Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018
"Are Friends Electric," Catalogue, FOCA, 2014
"Alumni II," Catalogue, Wesleyan University Press, 2013
“Look It Up In Your Gut,” coauthored with Jane Mulfinger, The International Conference on Arts Theory and History, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2012
“Sometimes Falling Feels Like Flying,” with Ali Prosch, The Sightlines, Zocalo Public Square, 6/24/12
“Painting Psychology,” with Alexandra Grant, The Sightlines, Zocalo Public Square, 5/24/12
“Daycare Behind Bars,” with Richard Ross, The Sightlines, Zocalo Public Square, 5/2/12
“Risk, Failure, and the Conventions of Taste,” with Rebecca Morris, The Sightlines, Zocalo Public Square, 3/27/12
“Octopi and Other Loves,” with Brian Bress, The Sightlines, Zocalo Public Square, 2/23/12
“Real Danger With Bonkers,” with Hilja Keading, The Sightlines, Zocalo Public Square, 2/17/12
Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Agnes Gund Foundation, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA
Awards
UC Interdisciplinary Humanities Award, Faculty Grant 2012
UCSB, College of Creative Studies Postgraduate Fellowship 2011
UC Interdisciplinary Humanities Award Graduate Grant 2010
UCSB, Department of Art, Graduate Merit Award 2009
University of California Regents Special Fellow 2008
Wesleyan University, Art Department Honors 2003
Wesleyan University, Cum Laude 2003
Phi Beta Kappa 2003
Teaching
Associate Professor, Santa Barbara City College, 2016 - present
(Classes: Fundamentals of Drawing, Intermediate Drawing, Integrated Drawing and Painting, 2D Foundations, Color Principles)
Lecturer, UC Santa Barbara Department of Art and College of Creative Studies, 2010 - 2016
(Classes: Beginning Drawing, Beginning Painting, Intermediate Drawing, Hybrid and Expanded Media, Humor and Art, Art Honors Seminar, American and European Art Since 1950)