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STEPHANIE BURSESE

Stephanie Bursese (b.1980, Schenectady, New York) uses photography, sculpture, textiles, and site-specific installation to investigate perspective, memory, and trust. Her work has appeared in numerous group and solo exhibitions, publications, and museums-nationally and internationally-including The Aperture Foundation (NY), The Print Center (PA), Expo Chicago (IL), Cornell University (NY), Galerie Maison Kasini (Montreal), Everson Museum of Art (NY), Silver Eye Center for Photography (PA), in The Welcome House as part of Design Philadelphia (PA); and The University of Virginia (VA). She is represented in both private and public collections.

She was selected for a residency at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2006. In 2013 she self-published her first book of photographs Razor Thin Rock Hard and released her second book, Belt and Brace, in 2015; in 2017 she was nominated for the MACK First Book Award. Bursese has been a member of Vox Populi Gallery for 12 years and has taught in higher education for the last 18 years. She served as Program Manager for the Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives initiative, a $750K Mellon Foundation grant project (2017-2020), as a Grant Writer for We Are the Seeds (2020-2023), and is currently a Co-Director & Curator of the Pew-funded project “Teaching at the End of Times”. She has worked with numerous national and local foundations, institutions, funders, and international artists as a collaborator and organizer. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Florida in Photography/Art History and received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Syracuse University. Bursese lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

stephaniebursese(at)gmail.com