Eija Loponen-Stephenson
(b.1997)
Education
2024 MA, Art Education, Concordia University, Montreal QC.
2020 BFA with Distinction, Sculpture/Installation, OCAD University, Toronto ON.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Urban Choreographics. Produit Rien, Montreal QC.
Duo Exhibitions
2020 Once Very Familiar, curated by Chelsea Rozansky. United Contemporary, Toronto ON.
2017 Recalibrating Through Deconstruction, Canary District Gallery, Toronto ON.
Group Shows
2023 Désordre d’un souvenir effrité, Fais Moi, Montreal QC.
2021 In/tention, Produit Rien, Montreal QC.
2020 the body as a fever dream, Xpace Cultural Center, Toronto ON.
2020 In support of sex work, Images Festival, Toronto ON.
2020 Modes of Inhabiting, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto ON.
2019 Resistance:Roundtable Residency Exhibition. Dragon Academy, Toronto ON.
2019 Delivery Notice, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto ON.
2018 Wayfinding: Identity in the Kootenays. Oxygen Arts Center, Nelson BC.
2018 bio/power. Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto ON.
2017 UN/ENTITLED, curated by Tamar Bresge. 642 Queen West, Toronto ON.
2017 Festival of the Body. OCAD University, Toronto ON.
Scenography and Costume Design
2024 Quartet, Costume Designer and Scenographer, an Other Hearts production in association with Video Cabaret, Toronto ON.
Conference Presentations & Guest Lectures
2023 " Urban Choreographics: The Extralinguistic Pedagogies of the Montreal Underground", guest lecture ARTH 371- Summer 2023, Concordia University, Montreal QC.
2023 "Montreal Metro as an Epistemic Site" presented at Concordia Department of Education Graduate Student Symposium, Montreal QC.
2022 "A Rhythmanalitical consideration of Montreal's Underground as an Epistemic Site", presented at the Graduate Student Symposium titled "Research-Creation as Critical Spatial Practice" as part of the Scenographies of Site-Writing & Critical Spatial Practices across the Americas residency presented by the Performative Urbanism Lab for Spatial, Social, and Scenographic Experimentation (PULSE). Montreal QC.
2022 "Verdun Station as an Epistemic Site: A Rhythmanalysis", The Canadian Society of Education Trough Art (CSEA) Annual Conference- Graduate Symposium. Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa ON.
Publication
2020 "Net Interface: A propositional model for forming body-structures" , A Tending to Things: OCADU Sculpture/Installation BFA journal, Toronto ON.
2019 "How to (mis)use Everyday Objects: An introductory instruction manual on how to practice soft resistance towards object-programmed motion", Roundtable residency publication, Toronto ON.
Residencies
2024 (Upcoming) Deleuze and Guattari Studies Camp, Delft, NL.
2024 Embodied Interventions, Milieux Institute, Le PARC research cluster, Concordia University, Montreal QC.
2022 Scenographies of Site-Writing & Critical Spatial Practices across the Americas, presented by the Performative Urbanism Lab for Spatial, Social, and Scenographic Experimentation (PULSE). Montreal QC.
2019 Roundtable Residency, Dragon Academy, Toronto ON.
2016 Cottage University, Coordinated by Sean Smith with the Department of Biological Flow, Verona ON.
Awards
2021 Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CGS M), SSHRC, Concordia University, Montreal QC.
2020 Career Launcher Fund, OCAD University, Toronto ON.
2020 Hadyn Davies Memorial Award, OCAD University, Toronto ON.
2020 Dean's List, OCAD University, Toronto ON.
2015-2019 Ada Slaight Scholarship, Slaight Foundation, Toronto ON.
Related Experience
2023 Installation Assistant, Juan Pablo Macias, 4th Space, Concordia University, Montreal QC.
2023 Curator and Event Organizer, Embodied Interventions, Milieux Institute, Le PARC research cluster, Concordia University, Montreal QC.
2022-2024 Assistant Seamstress and Costume Storage Assistant, Concordia University Department of Theatre, Montreal QC.
2021-2022 Senior Creative Director and Project Manager, Æ Graduate Journal of Art Education. Concordia University, Montreal QC.
2021- 2024 Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal QC
2022 Research Assistant, Oxygen Arts Centre, Nelson BC
2020 Research/Gallery Assistant , Thirding Studio Gallery, Markham ON.
2020 Studio Assistant, Sara Mozafari, Markham ON.
2019 Gallery Assistant, Ignite Gallery, Toronto ON.