Stephanie H. Shih
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BIO
Stephanie H. Shih (b. 1986, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2025 and the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in 2023. She renders everyday items as trompe l’oeil sculptures that reveal the tensions within American domestic life. Turning consumer goods—a microwave, a self-help book, many pantries’ worth of condiments—into intricately painted ceramic objects transforms each into a permanent artifact. Seen together, the works play with notions of permanence and obsolescence, memory and disillusionment. Shih’s engagement with social issues extends beyond her craft; since 2017, she has raised nearly $1,000,000 for disenfranchised communities facing material instability and state violence.
Shih’s work has been exhibited at the Maine Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC; John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV ; Torggler Fine Art Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, NY; Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse, NY; Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Pomona, CA; and is held in institutional collections across the United States. Shih lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
