HI THERE!
I'm Stephanie. My Chinese name translates as 'happy cloud', which honestly is a pretty apt description of me. As a photographer, I prize the absence of light as much as light itself. Beauty exists in the shadowed depths where our imagination sees more than our eyes. It's my job to unlock that imagination.
When I'm not creating behind the lens, I'm often found in the kitchen adding some random spice drawer find into a new cake experiment. (My latest spice obsession: red shiso)
I am based in Los Angeles and am originally from San Francisco Bay Area. I will forever be chasing (happily) the Northern California fog.
Let's work together and play with our food!
Contact
hello@thisisshih.com
@thisisshih
📍Los Angeles & San Francisco
Select Clients
AARP
Audubon
Bloomberg Businessweek
Clarkson Potter
Fly By Jing
Food & Wine
Gastronomica
High Country News
Los Angeles Times
Our Place
Salt & Straw
Select Awards/Exhibitions
(2024–2025) 欣欣向荣 𝕱𝖑𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖍. Solo exhibition for the Next Generation Aline Smithson Award, Los Angeles Center of Photography (Curator: Rotem Rozental). 15 Dec–8 Feb.
(2024–2025) LONG TIME NO SEE 好久不見. Solo exhibition, Museums at Washington and Lee University. 28 Aug–7 Jun.
(2022–2023) 開花結果 OPEN FLOWERS BEAR FRUIT. Solo exhibition, USC Pacific Asia Museum. Curated by Rebecca Hall. 9 Nov–12 Mar.
(2022) Vessel (group show). Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles (Curator: Dasha Matsuura). 11 Jun–2 Jul.
(2022) APA-LA "Off the Clock". Best in Show Winner. Juried by Paul Martineau (Getty Museum).
(2022) Potluck (group show). Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles (Curator: Dasha Matsuura). 12 Feb–5 Mar.
(2021) APA-LA "Off the Clock". Winner. Juried by Rebecca Morse (LACMA).
Select Press
(2024) "Stephanie Shih: FLOURISH" by Aline Smithson. Lenscratch. 11 Dec.
(2023) "Collection Connections: Washington and Lee's Museum Artist-in-Residence Program welcomed photographer Stephanie Shih to campus in May to create new work based on the Museums' art collection." by Kelsey Goodwin. The Columns. 28 Jun.
(2022) "'Asian American Still Life' Photographs Reclaim Beauty, Power, and Space" by Jon Feinstein for The Luupe.
(2022) "This Former Food Blogger's Still Life Photos Showcase Asian American Experiences Through Art" by Pia Peterson. Buzzfeed News. 2 Feb.
(2021) "Focus on still life: Stephanie Shih: Asian American Still Life" by Aline Smithson. Lenscratch. 2 Nov.
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