Stephanie Fortin’s practice engages with materiality, process and colour to reveal the complex relationships among human activity, non-living things and the ecologies that shape our world. She works in situ—with forms and sites, such as cars, trees, an arboretum and a wrecking yard. Her process involves imprinting residues of the past that influence the shifting conditions of the future. Fortin holds a Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art degree from the University of Guelph (Guelph, ON) and completed an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Fine Arts at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University (Halifax, NS). Fortin has participated as a full-time artist-in-residence at Harbourfront Centre (Toronto, ON), Maison des métiers d’art de Québec (Québec City, QC) and Est-Nord-Est (Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, QC) as part of the 2021 Biennale de Sculpture de Saint-Jean-Port-Joli. She has received funding and awards from the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, Craft Ontario, Harbourfront Centre, the University of Guelph and the Canadian Federation of University Women. Fortin’s studio is located in Guelph, Ontario, on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (Anishinaabe), within the Dish With One Spoon Wampum covenant territory held in partnership with the

Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the historic lands of the Attiwonderonk peoples.