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Stephanie, a Black woman of medium brown complexion, smiles broadly. She has shoulder length dark brown locks and wears a sheer pale blue shirt with flowers.

Photo by Jay Adams.

Artists

Stephanie Dinkins

She // Her // Hers
They // Them // Theirs

Artist

Brooklyn, New York

Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist who creates platforms for dialogue about race, gender, aging, and our future histories. Dinkins’ art practice employs emerging technologies, documentary practices, and social collaboration toward equity and community sovereignty. She is particularly driven to work with communities of color to co-create more equitable, values grounded social and technological ecosystems.

Dinkins exhibits and publicly advocates for equitable AI internationally. Her work has been generously supported by fellowships, grants, and residencies from Berggruen Institute, Onassis Foundation, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Creative Capital, Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab, Eyebeam, Data & Society, Pioneer Works, NEW INC, and The Laundromat Project. Dinkins is a professor at Stony Brook University where she holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art.

Donor -This USA Fellowship was generously supported by the Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation. The Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 07.31.2024

A Black woman with an afro, green lipstick, geometric face paint, and sleek black outfit crouches in a dance-like pose in a field of towering cotton plants.

Secret Garden by Stephanie Dinkins, 2019 – ongoing. Immersive web experience and installation with audio. Commissioned by Nokia Bell Labs and Onassis Foundation. Presented by ONX Studio.

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Complementary by Stephanie Dinkins, 2020. Performance with 8 custom green, black, and brown flags, sandbags, makeshift stage, and live streaming equipment. Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn.

Video courtesy of the artist.

Seen in profile, the artist, a dark brown Black woman, stares at Bina48, a robotic bust with medium brown-gray Frubber “skin” and feathered brown shoulder length hair. The two subjects resemble each other. Their heads are close in proximity. They wear similar white t-shirts and scarves.

Conversations with Bina48: Fragment 7 by Stephanie Dinkins, ​​2014 – ongoing. Digital video, 4 minutes.

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