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As an artist who works with many different techniques and materials, ranging from photography to ceramics to fibers, I find Studio Foundation to be a great fit for me as a professor. I particularly love working with first year students in the crucial transition from high school to college, getting to know them and their very individual interests and practices, and challenging them to make bold and ambitious work.

I am preoccupied with the social and emotional impact of ecological loss and climate change. And I am particularly curious about the systems that bind us in harmful patterns and in ways of breaking free. I address these challenges in the materials and processes I choose as much as in the forms I make. I’ve upcycled immense petrochemical textiles to create tapestries calling attention to climate collapse and its intersecting causes and impacts. I cook up my own biodegradable materials from seashells, plants, and food waste to create ecologies within sculptures that express the tenderness of relationships. I propagate and collaborate with endangered or local plants by way of prayer. Working with clay can feel like summoning forms from deep time. I respond to clay’s inherent qualities as a geological material to intuitively create non-functional vessels in which textures and forms cohabitate as they do in Earth’s many biomes.

Industry Experience

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

• 2019 – Signposts, The Cost Annex, Boston, MA
• 2018 – UNLESS, a Now + There public art commission, Prudential Center, Boston, MA
• 2018 – Dare to Blush, Stonehill College, Easton, MA
• 2015 – Platform 17: Beacon, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2024 – Yuska: Uncoil, the 27th Annual Drawing Show at Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts
• 2024 – The Material Way, Three Days of Design Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2024 – Craft in the Real World, Brant Gallery at MassArt
• 2022 – Material Agency, MassArt x SoWA, Boston, MA
• 2022 – More Than Words, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA
• 2018 – In Search Of, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY
• 2017 – Materiality: The Matter of Matter, CMCA, Rockland, Maine.
• 2015 – Architectural Allusions, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

Selected Publications

• 2020 – “Times of Uncertainty: On Rumi and Ecological Breakdown”, by Stephanie Cardon, Boston Art Review, Issue 5, Summer 2020
  
• 2018 – “UNLESS: Massive Piece of Art Tells Simple Message About Global Warming,” by Morgan Hume, DigBoston
• 2018 – “Stephanie Cardon: UNLESS,” by Heather Kapplow Delicious Line, 2018
• 2018 – “Stephanie Cardon’s Massive Installation Calls for Climate Action at the Entrance to the Prudential Center,” by Brandi Griffin, Boston Art Review
• 2018 – “Redefining Common Space,”, by Leah Triplett Harrington, N+T Journal
• 2016 – “Stephanie Cardon: Platform 17: Beacon,” by Helen Lewandowski, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

Recent Presentations

• 2024 – Annual Artist-in-Residence lecture, Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, VT
• 2019 – UNLESS, in the context of “Green Sage: John Ruskin & Proto-Environmentalism in Victorian England,” The Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• 2018 – “We Act Together,” a panel exploring climate justice through art, policy and activism
• 2018 – UNLESS, at “Climate Change across the City”, an Emerson College Civic Media event, Boston, MA

Awards

• 2019 – Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant
• 2015 – Saint Botolph Club Foundation, Emerging Artist Grant
• 2014 – Finalist, Boston Artadia Awards
• 2013 – The Wassaic Project, Fellowship
• 2013 – Finalist, Blanche E. Colman award, Boston
• 2010 – 2011 – Kingston Gallery Emerging Artist program
• 2007 – Villa Médicis Hors-les-Murs, Cultures France, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France. Project and Travel Grant