Stacey Steers

Stacey Steers is recognized internationally for her process-driven, labor-intensive films composed of thousands of handmade works on paper. Her work employs images appropriated from early cinematic sources, from which she constructs original, lyrical narratives.

Steers’ award-winning short films have screened throughout the U.S. and abroad, including the Sundance Film Festival (UT), Telluride Film Festival (CA), Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands), New Directors New Films (NY), MoMA (NY), The Lincoln Center (NY) and the National Gallery of Art (D.C.).

Since 2011, Steers has expanded her practice with the aim of creating a new context to experience her films, doing so through collaborative installations that join invented, three-dimensional production elements with film loops. Her recent solo exhibits include the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona, The George Eastman Museum in Rochester in New York, and the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal. In 2023, her projects included a survey exhibition at the University of Colorado Art Museum and installations at ArtYard in New Jersey for the Animation Live Festival in September.

Stacey Steers is a recipient of notable grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, and the American Film Institute. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.