Paine
Stephanie L. Paine, Associate Professor of Photography
Stephanie Paine is a visual artist and teaches photography in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Louisiana of Lafayette.
She explores a range of photographic techniques that often merge digital and traditional processes and include hand-built and altered cameras. She is motivated by the history of photography as it relates to technological developments, and utilizes the medium's distinct processes to investigate various conceptual outcomes of photographic images.
Her work is rooted in the land and the psychological pull of the natural environment. She is also interested in the human experience in reference to the physical body and occupation of space.
Stephanie was raised in Michigan, and attended university at the cusp of digital photography, learning primarily film and darkroom processes. She earned an MFA degree from Purdue University, and soon after taught photography courses in Istanbul for over five years. She has been an artist in residence in Iceland, Finland, and Bulgaria.
She has shown nationally and internationally at leading gallery spaces including, the Ogden Museum of Southern Arts in New Orleans, the Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University, and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado. She earned honorary mention for the 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers.
Education
2010
MFA in Photography & Related Media, Purdue University
2007
BFA in Photography, Saginaw Valley State University
Awards
2022
18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, Honorary Mention
Educating for Equity Fellowship, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2020
Art Now: Photography, Ann Arbor Art Center, Michigan
Second Place
2019
The Environment and Social Activism, NY Photo Curator Global Photography Awards
Honorary Mention
Contemporary South 2019, VAE Raleigh, North Carolina
Second Place
Exhibitions
Solo
2020
Stop.Drop.Roll., Public Installation, Razklon Gallery, Tsarino, Bulgaria
Group
2022
Biosphere, Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery
Light, A Smith Gallery (online)
37th Annual International Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, UT-Tyler
2021
Contemporary Art Survey, The Lincoln Center, Colorado
Twenty Years of Marais Press, The Hilliard Art Museum, Louisiana
Photography Without a Lens, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts
Turmoil and Transformation, The Hera Gallery, Rhode Island
Sunshine Prints, New Orleans Photo Alliance, Louisiana
23rd Annual Rio Brazos Juried Exhibition, Dora Lee Langdon Center, Texas
Star Children (invitational),Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University
Waterloo Photography Invitational, Photocentric Gallery, Ohio,
2020
Art Now: Photography, Ann Arbor Art Center, Michigan
13th Annual Open Juried Photographic Exhibit (online), Cary Photographic Artists
Midwest Queeritivities, The Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Louisiana Contemporary 2020, Ogden Museum of Southern Arts, New Orleans
2019
The Red Show, Core New Art Space, Colorado
Center Forward, Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado
RE: The Social Policing of Gender and the Criminalization of Queerness
Amos Eno Gallery, New York
Contemporary South 2019, VAE Raleigh, North Carolina
21st Annual Krappy Kamera Competition, SoHo Photo Gallery, New York
Bibliography
Upcoming
Post, Morgan. “Alternative Photography for the Contemporary Photographer:
A Beginner’s Guide”
Routledge, New York, Expected July 2022
Interview and image feature
2021
Full Bleed: Adaptation, Issue 05, 2021
Maryland Institute College of Art, ISSN 2572-651x
Pages 38 - 45, and front and back covers
Artscope Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 2, May & June 2021
“Featured Gallery: Turmoil and Transformation at the Hera”
Quincy, Massachusetts, Boston Publishing House LLC, ISSN 1932-0582
Pages 37 - 39
2019
Hoagland, Sadie. “American Grief in Four Stages”
West Virgina University Press, Morgantown, 2019, ISBN 978-1-949199-21-5
Back Cover, Author Portrait
Art Maze Magazine, Summer Edition, Issue 13, 2019
Park Communications Ltd., London, ISSN: 2399-893X
Page 103