Stéphanie Roland is a belgian / micronesian visual artist and filmmaker who studied media arts at the ENSAV - La Cambre (Brussels) and at UDK - Universität der Künste (Berlin), in Hito Steyerl and Thomas Arslan’s class. She regularly gives talks about her practice; among others, she was TEDx Brussels speaker in 2018. She's now artist at Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains, producing new projects.
Her work is regularly shown at international level. Her projects have been included in exhibitions from major institutions including Louvre Museum (FR), Benaki Museum (GR), Botanique (BE), Kampala International Art Biennale (UG), Bozar (BE) and Wiels (BE). Breda Photo (NL), Belfast Photo festival (IE), Manifesto (FR), Encontros da Imagem (PO), BIP Liège (BE), MOPLA (US), Unseen (NL) and Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin are amongst the festivals dedicated to Photography and Films in which she took part. In 2017, she was selected in the group exhibition of the Antarctica Pavilion for the 57th Venice Biennale.
She won an impressive number of prizes and grants, notably the grant of the Vocatio foundation, the Médiatine award and the Full Contact award at the SCAN Tarragona international festival of photography. She was shortlisted for the HSBC Photography Award, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, the Vevey International Photography Award, the Salomon foundation award, BMW Residency Award and the Prix Jeunes artistes of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.
