UPDATE: 100 ATTENDEES, LIMITED DUE TO COVID SAFETY.

We are requiring all attendees to be fully vaccinated at this event.
Please bring photo-proof of vaccination, preferably a SMART Health Card.

This event is presented in partnership with the San Francisco Art Institute. Students (from any school) are always welcome to attend PhotoAlliance lectures for free. Please present your student ID at the door.

PhotoAlliance believes in an accessible, inclusive and supportive arts community. The income we receive from ticket sales offsets our costs and allows us to pay artists for their work. If you are unable to afford the admission cost of a PhotoAlliance event, we welcome you to join our volunteer team and attend for free, more information HERE.

All photos © Stephanie Syjuco

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship. She was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of American History in Washington DC in 2019/2020, and this research formed the basis of her 2021 solo exhibition "Native Resolution" at Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco.

Born in the Philippines, Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. She is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and resides in Oakland, California. She is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery (SF) and RYAN LEE Gallery (NY).

All photos © Chris Manfield

Chris Manfield graduated with his BFA in photography with a minor in printmaking from San Francisco Art Institute in 2018. Manfield worked for the International Center of Photography until 2019 when he moved back to the west coast to pursue an MFA in Studio Art from San Francisco Art Institute. In 2021 Manfield was nominated as SFAI’s 150th anniversary graduate commencement speaker, outstanding MFA student, MFA exhibition best in show, and recipient of the John Collier grant and award.