STEPHANIE ECHE
b. 1986 Gilbert, Arizona
Lives and works in New York City, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Postpartum Paintings, Tin Cup, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Vistas Enredadas, eeeee, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 Handmade Landscapes: Ocean Meets Sky, High Line Nine, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 RAICES, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Interlinked, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Ceramic Studio Show, Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Co/lateral, Art Pawn at sk.ART_Enterprise, New York, NY
2023 You Can’t Stay Here Forever, Roots Cafe, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Time/Space, Compère Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Belonging, three-person show, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Garden Party, Atelier Canal, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Cat Daddy, AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Embrace, Maake Projects, State College, PA
2021 Forms, Frames, and Selves: Benefit Exhibition, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Artist Alliance Members Show 2021, Artist Alliance, online
2021 Unraveled: Confronting the Fabric of Fiber Art, Untitled Space, New York, NY
2021 Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
2020 Live Wire, Form & Concept, Santa Fe, NM
2020 Wide Open 11, National Juried Art Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2020 In the Abstract, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 A Place to Visit, online, Jip Gallery and Olympia Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Fe*Mail* Art: 2020 Postcard Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Discover: 2019 Emerging Artists Exhibition, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
ART TALKS
2023 Weaving Together: Artist Panel with Kimberly Bush, Stephanie Eche, and Traci Johnson moderated by Grace R. Freedman, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Time/Space Artist Panel with Shweta Bist, Stephanie Eche, Kim Hopson, Caroline McAuliffe, Jocelyn Russell, and Nina Wood, Compère Collective, Brooklyn, NY
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2021 Wild Lands, Jen Tough Gallery
2021 Jenn Cacciola, Untangled storylines and the shape of time in the work of Stephanie Eche, Vantage Art Projects, March 3
2021 Katherine Earle, Overflowing Skys: Stephanie Eche at High Line Nine, Art Spiel, July 20
2021 Caitlin Schneider, Art in Covid Times: An interview with Stephanie Eche, Hola Cultura, June 24
2019 Michelle Santiago Cortés, Mood Boards Can Help Unlock Creativity—Here’s How to Make Your Own, Artsy, February 21
2017 Tajha Chappellet-Lanier, A DC artist wants screenshots of your weirdest Tinder DMs, Technical.ly, April 13
2010 Laurie Buenafe Krsmanovic, Take Five: Stephanie Marie Echeveste, Mission Local, April 12
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Canopy Program with Matt Phillips, NYC Crit Club, New York City, NY
2021 eeeee Residency, Mexico City, MX
2021 City Artist Corps Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Center for Urban Pedagogy Teaching Artist Fellowship, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Creative Communities Fellow, National Arts Strategies, New York, NY
2019 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council SU-CASA Artist-in-Residence, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
2018 Urban Land Institute Health Leaders Network Fellowship, Urban Land Institute, New York, NY
2017 Natural Dye Residency with Juana and Porfirio Gutierrez Family and Weaving Residency with Fé y Lola in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico
2008-2009 Printmaking Residency with lead artist Pilar Valdivieso, Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa, Bilbao, Spain
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND RELATED WORK
2015—Present Founder/Principal, Distill Creative, New York, NY
2020—2023 Creator and moderator, First Coat podcast, New York, NY
2022 Juror for Public Art Grants, Forecast Public Art, St. Paul, MN
2021 Teaching Artist for Center for Urban Pedagogy, KAPPA International, Bronx, NY
2019 Teaching Artist for Center for Urban Pedagogy, ICHS, Bronx, NY
EDUCATION
2021–2023 Garment Weaving with Isa Rodrigues at Textile Arts Center, Textile Translations with Padma Rajendran, Research and Critique with Alexis Callendar, NYC Crit Club with Yevgeniya Baras and Catherine Haggarty and Caitlin MacBride, Ceramics Handbuilding with Kelley Donahue and Isolina Minjeong Alva and Ceramics Wheel with Lilian Wu at Gasworks, Drawing with Fran O'Neill at NYAA and Rami Baglio at NYSS, Brooklyn and New York, NY
2019–2020 NYC Crit Club, Drawing with Sarah Grass and Soft Sculpture with J. Solodkin at SVA, Painting with Manu Saluja and Adam Cross and Marcelo Daldoce at NYAA, Painting with Ten Hundred (online), Premier Pro and Adobe Audition classes at BRIC, Brooklyn and New York, NY
2017–2018 Fiber arts and printmaking classes at Textile Arts Center and Lower East Side Printshop, Brooklyn and New York, NY
2017 Natural Dye Course, Teñido a Mano; Embroidery Course, Miku Meku, Oaxaca, Mexico
2015–2017 Machine Knitting and Embroidery with Denise Maroney and Monotype Printmaking with Evan Bellantone, New Community ArtSpace, Washington, DC
2008 Bachelor of Arts in Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA