Mariam Stephan
Education
MFA University of Washington, Seattle, 2002
BFA Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1995
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Italy, 1994
Biography
Within the School of Art Mariam Aziza Stephan served for six years as the Director of Graduate Studies, School of Art Faculty Senator, Chaired the CVPA Equity Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and has received a UNCG Teaching Excellence Award.
Mariam Aziza Stephan has exhibited her paintings in museums and galleries across the United States, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, The Painting Center, the Mobile Museum of Art, Henry Zarrow Art Center, Gezira Art Center, and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, and is included in the permanent collections of the Raleigh Municipal Art Collection, Raleigh; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; and the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, Cairo, Egypt.
Mariam Aziza Stephan received a North Carolina Artist Fellowship, and is a Fulbright Scholar Fellow, for Painting Bridging Time: The Egyptian Fayum Mummy Portraits. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Ox-Bow School of Art, and DRAWinternational.
Subjects Taught
- Painting and Drawing
Scholarly Creative/Research Activity
2021
Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, Exhibit D: Aftermath, #3 Reading Room, Beacon, NY
2020
Escapes and Revelations: NC Arts Fellowship Recipients, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2019
Exit North, El Horreya Center for Creativity, Alexandria, Egypt
Hatched in the Drift, No.3 Reading Room & Photo Book Works, Beacon NY
Seasons for Ibrahim, Public Video Art Installation, Block2, Raleigh
In the arches, we cave, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2018
In the Middle of Far Away, Henry Zarrow Art Center, Tulsa OK
The World and Other Worlds, Greensboro Project Space, NC
2017
Swing shift, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA