Stephanie Barenz is an artist who creates mixed media works that are inspired by the powerful and intimate relationships between our external surroundings and our internal landscapes. Her creative practice merges photography, printmaking, painting, and collage, and responds to the transformative potential that is realized through encounters with new spaces, often those centered around bodies of water.
Barenz holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and has taught at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She ran her studio in Milwaukee for over five years and moved to Madison in 2022 after teaching art for five years at Concordia International School in Shanghai. She now works out of her east-side studio in the Madison Enterprise Center.
Stephanie has completed residencies at the Art Students League of New York, the Chicago Printmakers’ Collaborative, and the Pfister Hotel AiR program. She has exhibited her works at selected exhibition sites including Sino ArtSpace in Shanghai, Solonia Art Center in Suzhou, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Wisconsin Art, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Overture Galleries, and the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee.