© Stephanie S Shih 2023
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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
7x7
AARP
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Anthology Magazine
Bloomberg Businessweek
Blue Chair Fruit
Clarkson Potter
Elle Girl Korea
Food & Wine
Gastronomica
Los Angeles Times
Select Awards/Exhibitions
(2022–2023) 開花結果 OPEN FLOWERS BEAR FRUIT. Solo exhibition, USC Pacific Asia Museum. 9 Nov–12 Mar.
(2022) Vessel (group show). Hashimoto Contemporary (Los Angeles). Curated by 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). Curated by Dasha Matsuura. 12 Feb–5 Mar.
(2021) Group show 69: Photo for Non-Majors. Humble Arts Foundation. Curated by Roula Seikaly and Jon Feinstein.
(2021) APA-LA "Off the Clock". Winner. Juried by Rebecca Morse (LACMA).
(2021) AI-AP American Photography 37. Chosen Winner. Juried competition.
Features
(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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