PAST/CV

Education

2019 – 2021 | UCLA, Master of Fine Arts

• New Genres Department with a focus in documentary and installation

2010 – 2014 | The Cooper Union, Bachelor of Fine Arts 

• Focus in drawing, video and installation 

Fellowships, Awards and Grants 

• Fine Arts Work Center – Fellowship Finalist (2024-2025)
• New Voices Filmmaker Grant – Semi-Finalist (2024)
• The Lighthouse Works – Fellowship Recipient (2023) 
• Duke Center for Documentary Studies Lange-Taylor Prize – Prize Winner (2021)
• CAA Annual New Genres Screening – 2nd Place (2021)
• UCLA Department of Art Travel Grant – Beirut, Lebanon (2019)
• UCLA Graduate Opportunity Fellowship – Full Tuition and Stipend Recipient (2019)
• The Cooper Union – Full Tuition Scholarship (2010–2014)
• The Cooper Union – Study Abroad Award – L’École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (2013)

Select Recent Exhibitions

• Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles – Intimacy Screening (2023 + 2024)
• Athens Cultural Center – Man Alive! (memento mori) (2023)
• Los Angeles Queer Film Festival – Official Selection, Aquamarine (2022)
• Bad Language Vol. IIII – Moons and Swords  (2021)
• Martos Gallery group show Ebsploitation, Curated by Ebony L. Haynes – BLACKNASA Horus II-A, collaborative documentary with artist David Roy (2020)
• LAXART• CBARET What Not / Speak Easy (2020)
• Zebulon – Weirdo Night with Dynasty Handbag (2019)

Lectures and Workshops

2024 – Public Sound + Image Filmmaking Workshop, Lighthouse Works

2023 – Artist Talk, Lighthouse Works 

2022 – Visiting Artist Talk, Otis College of Art and Design

2021 – Visiting Artist Talk, The Episcopal School of Los Angeles

2019 – Visiting Artist Talk, UCLA - Senior Studio

Press

• 25 New Faces of Independent Film – Filmmaker Magazine (2024)

Museum Acquisitions

• Autry Museum of the American West acquired (4) Self Portrait Service photographs of Stephanie Miel Huang  (2022)

Professional Experience 

2019 – Present | Self Portrait Service: Creator, Photographer

• Co-creating and concepting free LGBTQIA+ portrait service with artist Sam Richardson which received the Duke Center for Documentary Studies Lange-Taylor Prize (2021). 

2010 – Present | Slopehouse Productions: Co-founder and Director

• Creating independent and music-centered videos, documentaries, and commercial content for over a decade. My roles include producing, directing, and editing.

2023 – 2024 | Filmmaking Workshop: Creator, Facilitator

• Created and led a sliding scale, accessible sound, image and video courses at various arts centers, galleries and event spaces in the Hudson Valley. Most recently conducted a session with The Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island for the local island community. 

202 | UCLA Summer Art Institute: Painting Teacher

• Taught a two-week college accredited painting intensive course to 18 high school students ages 14-18. This course was centered in expanding and specifying students' painting practices in preparation for college readiness. Wrote syllabus, reviewed assignments, and taught course online. Students came away with new technical skills, confidence in their vision, and a wide range of generative practices to further their creative practice. From dedicated daily practice, learning about other artists' works and exploring materials in new ways students will develop technical and conceptual skills as well as expand and specify their personal painting practices

2021 | UCLA Summer Art Institute: Experimental Video and Animation Teacher

• Taught a two-week college accredited intensive course to 15 international high school students ages 14-18. This course included technical approaches to video and animation as well as theory and history. Wrote syllabus, reviewed assignments, and taught course online. Students came away with new technical skills, confidence in their vision, and five completed video works.

2019 – 2020 | UCLA Department of Art: Teacher 

• Taught a ten-week graduate course on innovating instruction at the college level. This course provided incoming graduate students with instructional methodologies, feedback strategies, and inclusive and equitable pedagogies. Wrote syllabus, reviewed assignments, and taught course in person. Each student-teacher came away with teaching experience and training, as well as a greater awareness of their positionality in a classroom.
• Assisted, led, and liaised to students in a variety of art department courses. Beginning New Genres (Spring 2019), Senior Studio (Winter 2019, Spring 2020), Sound and Moving Image (Winter 2020). 

2017 – 2018 | Robeson High School | Chicago, Illinois: Volunteer Teaching Artist 

• Taught 20 high school students about filmmaking as a medium and method to document and share stories as well as a viable career path. Facilitated analysis of popular media like TV shows, movies and music videos with students.