Stephanie Cardon creates a nexus between fiction and history, a place half-reliable, half-confabulated. Her pieces draw on storytelling, map spaces both visually and verbally, investigate historical texts and literary classics, create photographic archives. They seem to be about place, but often the space described is entirely fictional, strongly re(mis-)interpreted or used to represent something it originally wasn't intended for. Writing has taken on an increasingly large role in her work, not for its function as a caption to an image or object, but as an additional and at times contradictory voice that claims its own visual place. The act of making, thinking, researching and writing has in some instances become the very topic of her work. She is interested in the creative process as much as the end result: like Francis Ponge's The Making of the Pré, a book that catalogues the evolution of a single poem, Cardon is curious to see a trace of the creative act. To this effect she has begun a blog-archive of her thought-process.
French-American artist Stephanie Cardon was born in 1978 in New York City. Her work has been shown internationally at the Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris; at the Arles Photography Festival by Le Garage; Sotheby's Conduit Street Gallery and Hoopers Gallery, London; The International Center of Photography and An American Space Gallery, New York City; Jane Deering Gallery, Kingston Gallery, Samsøn Projects, Atlantic Works, Mount Ida College and The Massachusetts College of Art and Design, among other places. It has been reviewed and published by Art New England, The Bostonist, Paris Art, Art Review U.K., Camera Austria, Photos Nouvelles.
A graduate of the University of Oxford (1999) and The International Center of Photography in New York (2001), she received her MFA in Interrelated Media from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010. She currently teaches in MassArt's Studio Foundation Department, as well as in the Art Department at UMass Lowell.
Cardon lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts, and in France. She is represented by the Jane Deering Gallery.