Stephanie M. Santana (b. Los Angeles, CA) is a textile artist and printmaker whose work explores wayfinding technologies and resistance strategies of Afrodiasporic origins. Through the lens of cyclical time, Santana investigates recurring events and ideological flashpoints in American history, and the legacy of Black women as visionary stewards of information. Her practice is rooted in an intuitive, research-based approach––working associatively with archival material to construct map-like compositions and glyphs that allude to themes of fugitivity, sousveillance, intergenerational memory and self-determination.

Recent solo exhibitions include Call & Response at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2025), Ways of Knowing at The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2024) and The Armory Show, New York, NY (2024). Santana’s work has been included in group exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis; Textile Arts Center, New York; and John & Robyn Horn Gallery at Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC; among others. Her work is held in permanent collections that include Whitney Museum of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Library of Congress and Getty Research Institute.

Santana is a 2025 Dieu Donné Workspace Residency recipient, 2024–25 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow, 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, and a 2023 Kahn/Mason SIP Fellow with EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The American Scholar and Hyperallergic.

Santana is a founding member of printmaking collective Black Women of Print, and a member of family artist collective The Santana Project. She lives and works in New York.

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