Fortin’s practice involves an engagement with materiality, colour and process. She creates with forms and sites surrounding urban environments to explore the interconnections of being and to conceptualize the relationships between human activity, non-living things and natural ecologies. Her methods involve working with textiles, plant dyes, rust-derived iron, the index and affect to reflect on the complexities of the present.
Stephanie completed an interdisciplinary BFA at NSCAD University (Halifax, NS) and is a 2025 MFA candidate at the University of Guelph (Guelph, ON). Fortin has participated as a full-time artist-in-residence with Harbourfront Centre (Toronto, ON), Akin + Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA), La Maison des métiers de Québec in Quebec City and Est-Nord-Est, Saint-Jean-Port- Joli, Quebec as part of the 2021 Biennale de Sculpture de Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, and has received grants and awards from Craft Ontario, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Harbourfront Centre and The Tony Scherman Graduate Scholarship in 2023. Fortin’s studio resides in Guelph, Ontario, on the traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Anishinabewaki Nation, Attiwonderonk, and Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
stephkfortin@gmail.com
Photo: ENE / Jean-Sébastien Veilleux photographe