Experience

Last updated: October 2024

EDUCATION

2021        Artist in Residency Program - School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa - Ottawa, Canada

2020        Photographic Arts and Production Diploma - School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa -

Ottawa, Canada

2016             Business Administration Diploma - Major: International Business, Algonquin College -

Ottawa, Canada.

EXPERIENCE

2024 Expert Advisor - Ward 1 Studios - Toronto, ON

2024 Panelist - Black History Month Community Showcase - Ottawa, ON

2024 Key Speaker - Black Performing Arts Showcase - Ottawa, ON

2023   Panelist - Caregivers Summit - Ottawa, Canada

2023 Artist Talk - Caregivers Summit Gala - Ottawa, Canada

2023 Artist Talk - Enriched Bread - Ottawa, Canada 

2023 Grant Writing Workshop for Black Artist - City Hall - Ottawa, Canada

2023 Juror - City of Ottawa Cultural Funding Program - Ottawa, Canada

2023 Juror - City of Ottawa Direct Purchase Program - Ottawa, Canada

2023   Artist Talk - Forest City Gallery - London, Canada

2023   Artist Talk - FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) - New York, USA

2022 Lead Artist - Carlington Community Health Center Workshop - Ottawa, Canada

2022       Artist Talk - Karsh Continuum Exhibition - Ottawa, Canada

2022       Artist Talk - SPAO Center - Ottawa, Canada

2022       Artist Talk - ARTEAST Ottawa - Ottawa, Canada 

2019                          Lead Promotion and Curation - Exhibition No. 14, SPAO - Ottawa, Canada


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023     Deep Cs (Chains & Crowns/The Collection) - Abbozzo Gallery - Toronto, Canada 

2022 Chains & Crowns - Forest City Gallery - London, Canada

2022 Chains & Crowns - Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain Inc - Montréal, Canada

2021 Chains & Crowns - Ottawa Art Gallery Annexe - Ottawa, Canada

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Inviting The Conflict - Ottawa Art Gallery Annexe - Ottawa, Canada

2023   We Do Not Dream of Labour - Ottawa Art Gallery Annexe - Ottawa, Canada

2023 Crépu: Our DNA, Black Hair Art Show - SAW Gallery - Ottawa, Canada

2023 Black History Month Presentation - The Canadian Embassy - Washington DC, USA

2023 In Living Colour: The Creative African, Caribean, Black Experience in Ottawa - City Hall - Ottawa, Canada

2022-2023 Metamorphosis - City Hall - Ottawa, Canada

2022 Workman Arts: Rendezvous With Madness - Toronto, Canada

2022     Festival Art SouTerrain - 10 King Street - Montréal, Canada

2022 Karsh Continuum Selected Artist - City Hall - Ottawa, Canada

2022 Artist in Residency Exhibition - SPAO Centre - Ottawa, Canada.

2021 Holding Pattern - City of Ottawa Art Collection - Ottawa, Canada.

2021 Fresh Voices - Abbozzo Gallery - Toronto, Canada

2020 Galerie Annex Collection - Ottawa Art Gallery - Ottawa, Canada

2020                         Exhibition No. 15 - SPAO Center Gallery - Ottawa, Canada

2019                         Open House - SPAO Center Gallery - Ottawa, Canada

2019                         Exhibition No. 14 - SPAO Center Gallery - Ottawa, Canada

COLLECTIONS

2022 Global Affairs Visual Art Collection - Ottawa, Canada

2022 City of Ottawa Art Collection - Ottawa, Canada

2022 Canada Council Art Bank - Ottawa, Canada

2021 City of Ottawa Art Collection - Ottawa, Canada

2020-present Various Private collections - Canada

GRANTS/AWARDS

2022 Exhibition Assistance - Ontario Arts Council

2022 Project X Photography Award Finalist - Ottawa Arts Council

2021                  Concept to Realization - Canada Council for the Arts

2021                  Creation and Production Fund for Professional Artists - City of Ottawa

2021                Spectrum Bursary - SPAO Centre

2021                  Recommenders Grant for Writers - Ontario Arts Council

2020                  Albino Pescatore Book Art Award - SPAO Centre


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2024 Lovebound - Ward 1 Studios

2022   Ottawa Art and Artists: An Illustrated History - Art Canada Institute

2022   Chains & Crowns: Identity Through Hair - Jano Lapin 

2022   Stephane Alexis: la photographie comme exutoire - Le Droit

2022   Karsh Continuum Artist Stephane Alexis on photographing…chicken feet - CBC Radio: All in a Day with Alan Neal

2022   Stéphane Alexis, Shelby Lisk, and Neeko Paluzzi: 2022 Karsh Continuum - Akimbo

2021                  Winter Edition Cover & Spread 2021/2022 - PhotoEd Magazine

2021                  Karsh Continuum Selected Artist - The City of Ottawa 

2021                  Seeing Me On TV - CBC: All in a Day with Alan Neal

2021                  Ottawa Art Gallery Presents Stéphane Alexis: Chains & Crowns - apt613

2020                  Exhibition No. 15 artist interview - CBC: All in a Day with Alan Neal

2018 Caring For Tor - CBC: The National Documentary