Biography

Stephen Sewell is a Brooklyn-based artist, filmmaker and educator. His research and projects broadly consider sites and processes of knowledge production and acquisition under the conditions of global capitalism. He has presented works at EFA Project Space, Target Margin Theater and Artists Space and has lectured and participated on panel discussions at University College London, University of Hertfordshire and Queens Museum. His last film, Three Lessons (How to shoot a gun) examines the naturalization and reproduction of gun culture in the U.S. and premiered at the Harlem International Film Festival. In 2020 he was an Emerging Scholar Award recipient for the Fifth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies at the University of Toronto, and a participant in EFA Project Space's 2020-21 SHIFT Residency. He received his MFA from the University of Washington and is an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program and Art & Law Program.