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Beth Stephens is an artist, and filmmaker with a Ph.D. in Performance Studies.
Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021) for her current film project with Annie Sprinkle, Playing with Fire, an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission (2022), a Fleishhacker Foundation grant (2022) and the publication of Assuming the Ecosexual Position— the Earth as Lover published by the University of Minnesota Press. In 2021 the Library of Congress Subject Heading created an “authority record” for “ecosexuality,”
Stephens’ work has been featured in the Sierra Club Magazine, eco/art/scot/land,CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle and in books such as WANWU I, by Zheng Bo, and The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change. Harvard University’s Schlessinger Library acquired Stephens’ archives in 2022. She teaches, lectures, exhibits art, screens films, and performs nationally and internationally most recently in exhibitions such as the Midwest Biennale in Minnesota, Manifesta 14 in Kosovo, the Kansas City Art Institute, Performance Space, New York and at the Salzburg Summer Art Academy.
Ph.D. UC Davis, 2015
M.F.A., Rutgers University
B.F.A Tufts University
Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Film
- Environmental Art and Social Practice
- Performance Art
Developing the field of Ecosexuality.
Environmental Art and Social Practice
Environmental Justice
Queer Art
Postporn
Walking
- Environmental Art and Social Practice
- Queer Arts
- Postporns
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Eureka Fellowship
- Rydel Fellowship
Water Makes Us Wet: an Ecosexual Adventure
Goodbye Gauley Mountain: an Ecosexual Love Story
Art 220, 80E
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