Biography
Stephanie Dinkins is a transdisciplinary artist whose work sits at the intersection of emerging technologies and future histories. Through sculpture, code, installation, and community collaboration, she builds platforms for dialogue about artificial intelligence and its entanglements with race, gender, and power. Dinkins uses storytelling and speculative design to challenge dominant narratives and make space for the voices and visions of those historically excluded—particularly Black and brown communities.
Her practice invites us to question who gets to shape the future of AI and how we might co-create systems rooted in equity, care, and collective agency. Whether through interactive installations, digital platforms, or neighborhood workshops, Dinkins catalyzes public imagination toward more just and inclusive technological ecosystems. “Imagination,” as scholar Ruha Benjamin reminds us, “is a contested field of action, not an escape from reality but a collective practice for shaping it.” Dinkins’s work operates in this very field—modeling how technologies can reflect not just the present but the futures we are willing to build together.
Dinkins teaches at Stony Brook University, where she holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art.
In 2025, Dinkins received the Mozilla Rise25 Award and the Oscar Polillio Award for Ethics (2024). She is a Lincoln Center Collider Fellow (2025), a Schmidt AI 2050 Senior Fellow, the inaugural recipient of the LG-Guggenheim Award (2023) for artists working at the intersection of art and technology, and was named to Time Magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023.
Dinkins earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art 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.
Recently, her work has been featured in public space at 300 Ashland Place, Downtown Brooklyn, as well as at ICA San Jose, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bronx Museum of Art, Museum for Contemporary Art Detroit, Ulsan Museum of Art, and REDCAT. Her work has also been presented at the Guggenheim Museum, the Ulsan Museum of Art, the Ford Foundation Gallery, the Västerbottens Museum, Museum Brandhorst, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Queens Museum, and the Esker Foundation.
The Guardian, Wired, The New York Times, Art In America, Artsy, Art21, Hyperallergic, the BBC, The Nod Podcast, Rightclicksave.com, and many popular podcasts and online publications have highlighted Dinkins' art and ideas.
Fellowships , Residencies & AwardsLincoln Center Collider Fellowship, 2025
Schmidt Futures Senior Fellowship 2050AI, 2023 Creative Time Research & Development Fellowship, 2023 LG-Guggenheim Award for artists working at the intersection of art and technology, 2023 Artist of Practice Fellow, Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program (IDP) Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, 2021 United States Artist Fellow, United States Artist, Chicago, IL |
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