Eija Loponen-Stephenson
(b.1997)

Education

-Ongoing- PhD , Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, York University, Toronto, ON 

(Expected completion 2030)

2024 MAArt 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 

2025 Figure-Ground Positions, Carmine’s Room, Montreal QC

2025 Shipwreck: UKAI Projects Residency Exhibition, Milieux Institute, Montreal QC

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 

Music Videos

2025 Costume and Production Designer, Crow’s Feet by  Bouvier Normal, produced by record label Lighter Than Air, Montreal, QC 

Theatre Productions

2025 Scenographer, On What Ground?, an Other Hearts Production presented as part of the Centaur Theatre’s Winter Works Festival programming, Montreal, QC

2024 Costume Designer and Scenographer, Quartet, an Other Hearts production in association with Video Cabaret, Toronto ON*

*Nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore award for Best Scenography and Projection Design in the independent theatre category. 

Conference Presentations & Guest Lectures 

2025 “Movement Signatures: Exploring the forgotten choreography of abstract expressionist painting through generative AI”, presented at the AI Impact Alliance (AIIA) “AI meets Art and Creativism” international virtual symposium   

2025  “Performance Art and Body Extensions”, guest lecture ARTE 354- Time-Based Media, Concordia University, Montreal QC 

2023 " Urban Choreographics: The Extralinguistic Pedagogies of the Montreal Underground", guest lecture ARTH 371, 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 

2025 UKAI Shipwreck Research-Creation Residency, Milieux Institute, Montreal QC

2024-2025 AI Impact Alliance (AIIA) Art-Law Research-Creation Fellowship, Montreal QC

2024 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 

2025 Elia Scholarship, York University, Toronto ON

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.

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