2025 Arnold and Augusta Newman Lecture
Please join us for the 2025 Arnold and Augusta Newman Lecture with artist Stephanie Syjuco. Following her lecture, Casey Riley, Mia’s Chair of Global Contemporary Art, will join Syjuco for a conversation about her practice. Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she’s focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship.
Born in the Philippines in 1974, Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award, and a Tiffany Foundation Award. Syjuco’s work appears in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Getty Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others. She was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. in 2019–20 and is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. A long-time educator, Syjuco is an associate professor in sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley.