Bio & Statement

Stephanie Santana (b. 1974, Los Angeles, CA) is a textile artist, surface designer, and fine art printmaker based in Brooklyn, NY.

Her work explores archival family photographs and documents, layering hand printed images and patterns as a way of understanding lineage and the spaces between memory, imagination, and the physical evidence of Black life. She believes in the possibility that textiles and print hold: as record-keepers, as protection, as tactile objects of enduring personal and cultural significance.

Stephanie currently serves as the Communications Director and Founding Member President of Black Women of Print, a homeplace for Black women printmakers. Her work is featured in the 2012 film An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (The Criterion Collection, Official Selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival), and is currently held in both private and public collections, including Getty Research Institute and Smith College Museum of Art.