Stephanie Patton is a contemporary multimedia artist whose work crosses the realms of.
Education
School of the Institute of Chicago
Stephanie Patton received her Bachelor of Fine s degree in Painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1993 and a Master of Fine s degree in Photography from the School of the Institute of Chicago in 1996. She has studied various types of vocal and comedic performance in New York, New York through The New School, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and the Gotham Writers" Workshop.
Career
Photography, sculpture, painting, installation, performance, video, audio and text. After living in New York City, she returned to Louisiana in 2001 and currently lives and works in Lafayette, Louisiana. She has co-curated many exhibits at the Acadiana Center for the s in Lafayette, Louisiana with curator Brian Guidry.
Patton has shown her work nationally and internationally including shows at the Bronx Museum of the s in the Bronx, New York, and in New Orleans at the Ogden Museum of Southern, Louisiana Works, the Contemporary s Center (New Orleans), the hur Roger Gallery, the McNay Museum in San Antonio, Texas, and the Galerie Patricia Dorfmann in Paris, France, among others
Patton’s work is often humorous in nature and frequently investigates aspects of human emotion. A performance artist, Patton also has been impersonating the character Renella Rose Champagne since 1993.
Membership
She is also a founding member of The Front, an artist’s collective, in the Saint Claude s District in New Orleans.