Stephanie Barber is a writer and filmmaker creating poetic, conceptual and philosophical work––literary/visual hybrids that play at the boundaries of narrative, essay and dialectic.

Barber’s art contemplates philosophical questions of human and non-human existence (its morbidity, profundity and banality) with humor, pathos and imagination.

Her films and videos have screened nationally and internationally in solo, and group shows at MOMA, NY; The Tate Modern, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Paris Cinematheque; The Walker Art Center, MN; MOCA Los Angeles, The Wexner Center for Art, OH, among other galleries, museums and festivals. Her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank and her 16mm films can be found at Canyon Cinema.

Her books ‘Night Moves’ and ‘these here separated…’ were published by Publishing Genius Press in 2013 and 2010 respectively. CTRL+P published a collection of her daily haiku ‘Status Update: Vol. 1’ in 2019 and her full-length play ‘Trial in the Woods’ was published by Plays Inverse in 2021 and reprinted in 2022.

Barber is currently Department Head of Film and Digital Cinema at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Pa. and resident artist at The Mt. Royal MFA for Interdisciplinary Art at MICA in Baltimore, MD.