Biography


Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist and professor at Stony Brook University where she holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art. 
She creates platforms for dialog about artificial intelligence (AI) as it intersects race, gender, aging, and our future histories. She is particularly driven to work with communities of color to co-create more equitable, values grounded artificial intelligent ecosystems. Dinkins’ art practice employs lens-based practices, emerging technologies, and community engagement to confront questions of bias in AI, data sovereignty and social equity. Investigations into the contradictory histories, traditions, knowledge bases, and philosophies that form/in-form society at large underpin her thought and art production.

Dinkins earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1997 and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Studies Program.  She exhibits and publicly advocates for inclusive AI internationally at a broad spectrum of community, private, and institutional venues – by design. Dinkins is Artist in Residence at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, 2019 Creative Capital Grantee as well as a 2018/19 Soros Equality Fellow,  Data and Society Research Institute Fellow  Past fellowships and residencies include Data and Society Research Institute Fellowship,  Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works Tech Lab, NEW INC, Blue Mountain Center; The Laundromat Project; Santa Fe Art Institute and Art/Omi.

The New York Times featured Dinkins in its pages as an AI influencer.  Apple Inc recognized Dinkins’ research and community-centered efforts by featuring her as a local hero in their “Behind the Mac” ad campaign (Brooklyn, NY edition).  Wired, Art In America, Artsy,  Art21, Hyperallergic, the BBC, Wilson Quarterly, and a host of popular podcasts have recently highlighted Dinkins' art and ideas.
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Fellowships , ​Residencies & Awards 

  • ​Artist Fellow, Berggruen Institute​, ​​​Transformation of the Human (TofTH) ​Project​
  • Artist in Residence,Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), (Sept 2019 - January 2020), 
  • ​Lucas Artists Fellow in Visual Arts, Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA (2019–2022)
  • 2019 Creative Capital Grantee
  • Artist in Residence, Nokia Bell Labs / E.A.T. Residency Member, NEW INC. (2018/19)
  • Soros Equality Fellowship,  Open Society Foundations, NY, NY. (2018 - 2020)
  • Data & Society Fellowship, Data & Society Research Institute, NY, NY.  (2019)
  • Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab Fellow, Sundance Institute,  Sundance, Utah (May 2018)
  • Trust Residency, EYEBEAM Brooklyn, NY – year-long residency funded 2017/18
  • Pioneer Works Technology Residency, Brooklyn, NY,  2018
  • A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art, 2017
  • Artist in Residence, Assembly Recess Art, Brooklyn NY  Fall 2017
  • Residency, Santa Fe Institute for the Arts, Equal Justice Residency, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2017
  • Artist in Residence, NEW INC, an art, technology and design incubator run by the New Museum, (supported) 2016
  • Artist Residency, Blue Mountain Center,  Blue Mountain Lake, NY (2014)​

Recent  Exhibitions &  Projects 

  • Feminist Data Visualization, Atlanta Contemporary,  June 2021 - Sept 2021

  • Design for Different Futures, Walker Art Center ,  September 2020 - April 2021 
  • Uncanny Valley,  DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA,  February 22  –  April 25, 2021
  • Virtual Beings, Transfer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,  January - February 2020
  • In Real Life,  Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, January 16 – Mar 22, 2020
  • The Question of Intelligence, Parsons School of Design, NY, NY, Feb 7 - April 8, 2020 

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