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Stéphanie Jeanjean is an art historian, curator, and translator. She currently teaches Art History at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and in the Master's Program in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, in New York. She is also an educator working with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and MoMA in New York.

Native to France, Stéphanie was born in Langres, a culturally rich historical small town in the Champagne-Ardennes region (in North-Eastern France), where she gained an early interest in the relationship between art, culture, and human activities throughout historical periods. She pursued Art History degrees, first at the Université de Bourgogne, in Dijon (Burgundy) and then by completing a Ph.D. in Art History at the CUNY (The City University of New York) Graduate Center.

Stéphanie presented her work at conferences worldwide, including Tate Britain, London (UK); KAIST University, Daejeon (South Korea), Brown and Cornell Universities, at MIT, and CAA annual conferences in Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago (USA), and at Sorbonne Université (Paris 1), among others. Her work on French militant video has been published in Afterall Journal, and reprinted in Hilary Robinson’s anthology, Feminism Art Theory (Wiley & Blackwell Editions, Oxford, 2015). Her work on Sociological Art has been published in: François Bovier and Adeena Mey eds., Exhibited Cinema an Anthology, by ECAL and JRP Ringier Editions, (Lausanne and Zurich, 2016). Her recent publication, “Le multiple politique : Études sur le potentiel d’un médium, comme processus et mode d’action,” is available online, in French, on Plastik (Paris: La Sorbonne, No. 12, 2023). Last, Stéphanie major curated project is WE DISSENT: Design of the Women's Movement in New York (at 41 Cooper Gallery in New York), which presented the work by more than 130 women artists and women’s collectives active in New York. It was listed as "10 Under-the-Radar Art Show" in The New York Times (by Roberta Smith, Nov. 2018) and is accessible here: www.wedissent.space