Stephanie Dowda DeMer (she/her) is an American photographer and experimental media artist. Her work excavates invisibility and creates space for reflection through phenomena, communion, and kinship. Dowda DeMer uses the materiality of photography to address grief, climate catastrophe, and insurmountable power. Recently, Dowda DeMer was named the inaugural Iowa Idea Fellow in Photography at The University of Iowa. She has taught photography at ASU and VCU. DeMer holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a Hambidge Fellow, Idea Capital grantee, and her work has been published in Dialogue, Bad at Sports, MuseA, ArtsATL, BurnAway, among others. She has shown at White Space Gallery-Atlanta, Grizzly Grizzly-Philadelphia, MART-Dublin and others. Currently, she is working on an Open Education Resource textbook Material Encounters, which won the OpenHawks Grant from The University of Iowa. Dowda DeMer is Assistant Professor of Photo + Video at Wesleyan College. She is based in Atlanta & Macon, GA.
Email:
stephaniedowdademer@gmail.com
Gallery Representation:
WhiteSpace Gallery, Atlanta GA | 404.688.1892 | gallery@whitespace814.com
CV available upon request.
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