Aerial Anchor Photograph

Stephanie Sydney was born and raised in London, England. She moved to California with her family as a teenager and is currently living in Venice, California. She studied art at Santa Monica College and UCLA. She started receiving awards for her art while in high school and in the galleries at Santa Monica College. While Stephanie was a painter from a very young age, because of her time constraints as a graphic designer and art director, she started exploring painting with a camera, first double and triple exposures in the camera, then adding mixed media pieces and digital collages. She is currently working in her art studio in Santa Monica. Her work is in several collections, including Banque BNP Paribais and Morgan Stanley in New York where they have 13 of her images. She has had solo shows at Arte 1307, Villa Di Donato, Naples Italy, Crafton Hills College Art Gallery, “Reflections” Yucaipa, CA, Gallery 825 “Shrine of Stolen Identities” solo show collaboration with Snezana Petrovic, LAAA - West Hollywood, CA, Brand Library Art Gallery, Glendale, CA., Culture Factory, Pasadena, CA., Raleigh Towers, curated by Donna Stein (formerly curator at Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.) - West Los Angeles, CA., Los Angeles Photography Center, L.A., Human Arts Gallery, Abbott Kinney, Venice, CA., Hama, Venice, CA. Recently she has been included in shows at MOAH (Museum of Art and History), MuzeuMM with VICA (Venice Institute of Contemporary Art), the Barnsdal LAMAG (Los Angeles Municiple Gallery), Brand Library and Art Gallery in Glendale, Annenberg Beach House, BG Gallery, DNJ Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica, Venice Arts Gallery, LACDA, Sylvia White Gallery, Wuho Gallery CSUN, and Gallery 825. She was awarded an Honorable Mention at Gallery FotoNostrum, “14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition”, in Barcelona, Spain. She was selected for “Pick of the Week” in LA Weekly by Peter Frank for two shows, one a solo show at the Brand Library Art Gallery and another at Zero One gallery. She received awards at the California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, and at the Creative Art Center Gallery, juried by Jillian Coldiron in Burbank, and was the winner of the photography contest in Outdoor & Travel Photography magazine. She has been in 3 shows with the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (VICA), is a member of Los Angeles Art Association and frequent moderator of their Critique groups, and a consortium member of BG Gallery in Santa Monica.