Stephanie Shih (史欣雲) is a visual still life artist, known for her painterly use of shadow applied to playful perspectives on food. Shih started making photographs with her dad’s half-frame camera on childhood road trips, but only took up photography seriously later in life while in graduate school. At te time, she moonlighted as a wedding cake maker, and translating the fantastical experience of food to the visual image has been a driving throughline of her work ever since.
    As a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American, Shih explores themes of contemporary and historical cultural dynamics through her still life creations, drawing on her background in semiotics and research to recode the symbologies of the still life canon. Shih has completed residencies at Oak Spring Garden Foundation (2024), Museums at Washington and Lee University (2023), and Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency (2022). Her work has exhibited in solo and group shows, including at Hashimoto Contemporary LA, Griffin Museum of Photography, USC Pacific Asia Museum, and The Royal Photographic Society. Shih’s photography been featured in outlets including Lenscratch, Bloomberg Businessweek, Gastronomica, Buzzfeed News, and Los Angeles Times.
  Shih is from the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives in Los Angeles. When not in the studio or kitchen creating, she is a professor at University of Southern California.

For more of Stephanie’s work, see https://www.stephanie-shih.com.