Stephanie Germosen is an artist living and working in Harlem, New York.
Germosen creates work that she calls “skins of experience” using extremely tactile materials to communicate the urgency of remembering in conditions of displacement. These objects are transformed into souvenirs that foreground her Dominican - Colombian - American heritage by addressing notions of geographical belonging, visibility, and memory as they relate to cultural identity. By shifting the emphasis from the immaterial to the material, she repurposes these objects of enigmatic origin, giving disembodied histories physical form. It’s a retracing of memory, a gathering of time, and a mending of new moments that reference the past and the future.
She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018 and has exhibited at Zakaib and Sullivan Galleries, both in Chicago, IL, and at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning in Queens, NY. She has been an artist in residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and Smack Mellon. Germosen was named a 2019-20 New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow and a 2023-24 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellow.