ABOUT
Stephanie Cardon (she/they) has been exhibited nationally and internationally at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 3 days of design (Copenhagen), the Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. In 2018, Now + There (now, the Boston Triennial) commissioned them to make a site-specific installation on the topic of climate justice for Boston's Prudential Center. She has received awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Saint Botolph's Club, Institut Français, and has been an artist-in-residence at MassMoCA, Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, the Wassaic Project, Ucross Foundation, among others.
Cardon holds a BA in History and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford, a graduate certificate in Photography from ICP, and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She is a Professor in Studio Foundation at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where she has taught full-time since 2019.
Stephanie Cardon lives and works in Boston, USA.
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Education
2001 Graduate Certificate, The International Center of Photography, New York
1999 BA, Joint Honours in History & Modern Languages. University of Oxford, U.K.
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2019 Signposts, The Cost Annex, Boston, MA
2018 Unless, a Now + There commission, Prudential Center, Boston
Dare to Blush, Carole Calo Gallery at Stonehill College, Easton, MA
2015 Platform 17: Stephanie Cardon, "Beacon", deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA
2011 Cardon+McNulty in Above Within Below, Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA
2011 Distal Zone, Kingston Gallery, Boston
2007 Fables of the New World, The Franco-American Institute, Rennes, France
2006 Fables du nouveau monde, La Maison du Loir-et-Cher, Blois, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2027 Unbound, Waterfall Arts, Belfast, ME
2026 Faculty exhibition at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
2024 Craft in the Real World, Brant Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
Heirloom Convoy, MassArt x SoWA, Boston
The Material Way, Three Days of Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
Yuska: Uncoil, Boston Center for the Arts
2022 Material Agency, MassArt x SoWA, Boston
More Than Words, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston
2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council Awardees show, Boston Sculptors Gallery [canceled Covid]
2018 In Search Of, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY
2017 Materiality! The Matter of Matter, CMCA, Rockland, ME
Directions, Brant Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
CONSTRUCT, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2016 Directions, Brant Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
2015 Architectural Allusions, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2014 Biennial, CMCA, Rockport, ME
Twelve Nights, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston
Seeing the Sky, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Green Dream, kijidome, Boston
2013 Directions, Brant Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Finalist exhibition for the Blanche E. Colman award, BU Art Gallery, Boston
LBP Travelling Library, Tre Terzi, Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia, Rome
2012 One Hundo Limited, South End Open Studios, 59 Wareham Street, Boston
Cardon+McNulty in Elsewhere, The Distillery Gallery, Boston
MassArt Alumni Show, Fountain, Brooklyn
2011 Chain Letter, Samsøn Projects, Boston
Little Big Press exhibition at Fotoleggendo, Rome
Le Garage, Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
Still, Kingston Gallery, Boston
Across Sections: a cross section, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA
Dialogues, Kingston Gallery, Boston
2010 The Moby Dick in All of Us, a video installation. Pozen Center at MassArt, Boston
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Art(ea) Party, ARLIS/NA Conference, World Trade Center, Boston
2009 Bumpkin Traces: an Exhibit of Findings. Studio Soto, Boston
Graduate Midway Show. Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
The MassArt Auction. Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
2008 Book Dummies, The School of the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York
Safe, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston
Le temps du regard: invitation à la clairvoyance, Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris
Wildlife / Wild Life, The Gallery at Mount Ida College, Newton, MA
2007 Venice: City of Dreams? Sotheby's, London
Womankind, Hoopers Gallery, London
Grants / Fellowships / Awards
2019 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Award
2015 Saint Botolph Club Foundation, Emerging Artist Award
2014 Finalist, Boston Artadia Awards
2013 The Wassaic Project, Fellowship
Finalist, Blanche E. Colman award, Boston
2010-2011 Kingston Gallery Emerging Artist program
2008-2010 National Endowment for the Arts, John Renna Merit Scholarship for Graduate Studies
2009 The Berwick Research Institute, Boston. Bumpkin Island Project Grant
2007 Villa Médicis Hors-les-Murs / Institut Français, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France. Project and Travel Grant
2002 Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles, France. Fellowship
Artist Residencies
2026 Po()inator Peer Mentoring
2024 Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, VT
2019 MassMOCA Artist Residency, MA
2013 Wassaic Artist Residency, NY
2009 Bumpkin Island Art Encampment, Boston Harbor Islands, MA
2007 AIRIE, Artists in Residence in the Everglades, Everglades National Park, Homestead, FL
2006 Ucross Foundation, WY
Commissions
2018 Unless, Now + There commission, Prudential Center, Boston, MA
2015 Beacon, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2011 Above Within Below, a site-specific project at Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA
The Moby Dick in All of Us. Video commissioned by John Holland
2007 Venice: City of Dreams? on behalf of the Saint George's Trust, Venice
Teaching Appointments
2016-present Professor, Studio Foundation, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2021-2023 Director, Center for Sustainability and the Environment, Colleges of the Fenway, Boston, MA
Spring 2016 Adjunct Faculty, Lesley College of Art and Design (LUCAD), Cambridge, MA
2011-2016 Visiting Lecturer, Studio Foundation, MassArt, Boston, MA
Fall 2015 Adjunct Faculty, Art Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
2010-2011 Adjunct Faculty, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA
Selected Public Talks
2019 UNLESS: a public artwork, handmade by many, in "Green Sage: John Ruskin & Proto-Environmentalism in Victorian England", at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2018 We Act Together: A panel exploring climate justice through art, policy, and activism, moderated by Spencer Glendon
2018 Climate Change Across the City. Boston Civic Media, Emerson College Engagement Lab (link)
2018 Visiting artist talk, MECA, Portland, ME