Eija Loponen-Stephenson
(b.1997)
Education
2020 BFA with Distinction, Sculpture/Installation, OCAD University, Toronto.
Duo Exhibitions
2020 Once Very Familiar, curated by Chelsea Rozansky. United Contemporary, Toronto.
2017 Recalibrating Through Deconstruction, Canary District Gallery, Toronto.
Group Shows
2020 the body as a fever dream, Xpace Cultural Center, Toronto.
2020 In support of sex work, Images Festival, Toronto.
2020 Modes of Inhabiting, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto.
2019 Resistance:Roundtable Residency Exhibition. Dragon Academy, Toronto.
2019 Delivery Notice, curated by Sandy Callander. Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto.
2018 Wayfinding: Identity in the Kootenays. Oxygen Arts Center, Nelson, BC.
2018 bio/power. Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto.
2017 UN/ENTITLED, curated by Tamar Bresge. 642 Queen West, Toronto.
2017 Festival of the Body. OCAD University, Toronto.
Publication
2020 "Net Interface: A propositional model for forming body-structures" , A Tending to Things: OCADU Sculpture/Installation BFA journal, Toronto
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.
2017 "CROCHET", Zero Savage Magazine, London, ON.
Residencies
2019 Roundtable Residency, Dragon Academy, Toronto.
2016 Cottage University, Coordinated by Sean Smith with the Department of Biological Flow, Verona, ON.
Awards
2020 Career Launcher Fund, OCAD University, Toronto.
2020 Hadyn Davies Memorial Award, OCAD University, Toronto.
2020 Dean's List, OCAD University, Toronto.
2015-2019 Ada Slaight Scholarship, Slaight Foundation, Toronto.
Related Experience
2020 Research/Gallery Assistant , Thirding Studio Gallery, Markham, ON.
2020 Studio Assistant, Sara Mozafari, Markham, ON.
2019 Gallery Assistant, Ignite Gallery, Toronto.
2015 Curatorial Assistant, FIGMENT, Toronto.
2014-2015 Administrative Assistant, Salmo Valley Public Library, Salmo, BC.