STEPHANIE LYNN MORIN, PhD
Cultural Analyst · University Lecturer · Curator
PhD in Cultural Analysis | Modern and Contemporary Italian Art | Visual Culture, Politics and Cultural Networks.
Specialist in modern and contemporary Italian art, visual culture and cultural politics. Research and teaching examine the institutional, political and market networks through which art acquires meaning and legitimacy.
Based in Italy | Dual Canadian–Italian citizenship | morin.stef07@gmail.com |
LANGUAGES English: native
Italian: fluent, spoken; advanced written
French: advanced reading; intermediate spoken; intermediate written
EDUCATION
2026 PhD in Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, degree conferred 22 June 2026
Dissertation: Who’s Afraid of Transavanguardia? Reassembling Actor-Networks of Visual Art and Politics in Italy, 1976–1986
2015 MA, cum laude, Language and Culture for International Communication, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy
Thesis: Goldfish in a Blender: An Essay on Current Approaches to Communicating Contemporary Art
1990 Diploma, Editorial Illustration, Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), Rome
1986 BA, English and American Literature, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Thesis: The Doomed Dreamer: Self-Invention and Illusion in Fitzgerald’s American Hero
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Academic appointments and teaching Tertiary level
2016–present — Lecturer, University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC), Viterbo
Hosted by Università degli Studi della Tuscia. Design and teach interdisciplinary
courses in visual thinking, visual analysis and studio art for US university students studying abroad. Teaching integrates critical engagement with works of art and Renaissance methods of perspective, light and form with contemporary approaches to drawing and image-making. Contribute to interdisciplinary curriculum development and innovative assessment.
2008–2013 — Lecturer, Università degli Studi della Tuscia. DISUCOM (Department of Humanities and Communication Studies). MA Programme in Languages and Culture for International Communication. Designed and taught modules in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), visual thinking and culturally immersive ESL pedagogy.
Secondary Level
1996–2005 — Tenured Lecturer, Italian Ministry of Education, Viterbo, Treviso and Rome
Developed and delivered cross-cultural communication and inclusion curricula at upper-secondary and post-secondary level, using Anglophone cinema, literature and visual culture to teach English as a medium of expression, identity and cultural representation.
SELECTED ADVISORY AND CONSULTANCY ROLES
Matrex Analytica, UK/Singapore — Senior Adviser Content analysis and cross-cultural communication
CollaEdu Ltd, UK — Consultant
Multicultural education and international recruitment
DD&T Films, USA — PR and Communications Consultant; Italy Liaison; Strategic Adviser to Oscar- and Emmy-nominated producer and CEO Den Tolmor
Italian Mozart Association — Art Director and Special Events Organiser
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
ACADEMIC
Essays
Morin, Stephanie. “Sandro Chia, Casual Victory: An Interview.” In ArtLovers: Celebrating Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians in Words and Pictures, edited by Gyöngyvér Horváth and Isabelle Onians, 259–268. Archaeopress, 2025.
Morin, Stephanie. “Ulysses c’est moi: Joyce and Paladino’s Significant Nonsense.” In The Edinburgh Companion to James Joyce and the Arts, edited by Keith Edwards and Cleo Oakley, 172–188. Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2026.
Morin, Stephanie. “The Missing Half of Transavanguardia: Women’s Exclusion from the Italian Artistic Formation.” In Il ritorno alla pittura e la persistenza dell’immagine: La nuova maniera italiana. Carocci, forthcoming 2027.
Book Manuscripts
Who’s Afraid of Transavanguardia? Art, Politics, and the Making of Cultural Legitimacy in Italy, 1976–1986. Submitted to Valiz, July 2026. Proposed preface by Prof. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
Goldfish in a Blender: An Essay in Reassembling the Public Mediation of Contemporary Visual Art. Manuscript in preparation.
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
“The Missing Half of Transavanguardia: Women’s Exclusion from the Italian Artistic Formation”, Conference: Artistic Research and the Return to Figuration in the 1980s: Critical Perspectives and Current Debate, University of Ferrara,
11–12 November 2026
Selected Artist Books, Catalogues and Contributions
2025 “Tutto Intorno,” image accompanying Robert Short’s poems “I’d Love…” and “Only a Few Steps.” In ArtLovers: Celebrating Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians in Words and Pictures Gyöngyvér Horváth and Isabelle Onians (eds.) 31. Archaeopress, 2025.
2004 Stephanie Morin, Confrontation, Arturarte, Nepi, Viterbo. 2004 Stephanie Morin, Le Pravda Gallery, Paris.
2000 Stephanie Morin, Vela Fluitantia: Paintings 1996-2000, Global Village, Hanau/Frankfurt. 1998 Stephanie Morin, Water Webs, Paintings 1995-1997, Ona&On Publishers, Moscow.
1997 Breviario, Juliet, Trieste.
1994 Stephanie Morin, Caught on the Line, Union Press Editions, Viterbo. 1993 Stephanie Morin, To Keep them Away, Parole Gelate, Rome.
MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS Selected Curatorial and Cultural Programming
2012 All in One at Once, Auditorium Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Viterbo
Curated, organised and promoted a multimedia exhibition and closing concert, in partnership with Università degli Studi della Tuscia and the Viterbo Philharmonic.
2011 St. Paul's Church, "Sentient Webs", An Exhibition-Concert organized by The Chamber Music Foundation of New England in honour of the World Premiere of the composition "Sentient Webs" (" Three paintings by Stephanie Morin") for amplified Cello and Organ by Jakov Jakoulov: Duo, Sergey Antonov (cello), Jakov Jakoulov (organ), paintings by Stephanie Morin, St. Paul's Church, Brookline (Boston), Massachusetts
2002 WINDS Project, 8th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Venice. Co-curated the multimedia architectural and visual-art project with Prof. Coppola-Pignatelli, Faculty of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome.
2000 Vela Fluitantia, Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, Exhibition Halls of Ex-Monte di Pietà, Italy. Co-organiser with Spoleto Municipal Council. Painting, Photography, Poetry (M. Korovkin, R. Martinis, S. Morin). Sponsor: Spoleto “Festival of Two Worlds”/Municipal Council for Culture; Immagina Publishers.
1997 Breviario, L’Isola Gallery at Falconieri Palace, Rome. Role: Curator, organizer. Text and Image Exhibition – Luigi Boille, Tommaso Cascella, Stephanie Morin. Poems by Michael Korovkin. Sponsors: L’Isola Gallery, Hungarian Embassy in Rome, Canadian Embassy in Rome
SOLO SHOWS
2009 Galleria Della Tartaruga, "Fragments" – Paintings 2008, Rome
Catalogue - Stephanie Morin Frammenti - dipinti 2008
Critic - Danilo Maestosi
Curaters - Galleria della Tartaruga and Associazione Romana Gallerie D’Arte Moderna
2009 Botanical Gardens of Viterbo, "Terra come Arte" Festival, Earth and Air, Water and Fire, Paintings 2007-2009, Organized by the Science Committe of the University of Tuscia, Viterbo
2007 Lennox Art Gallery, Paintings on Paper, Boston, Massachusetts
2006 Gabriele Cappelletti Gallery, Paintings and drawings, Milan
2005 Paolo Cappelletti Gallery, Confrontation, Amsterdam
2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Alicante Surface Tension, Spain
2004 Arturarte Gallery, Confrontation, Nepi (VT), Italy
2004 Pravda Gallery, The Mystery of Colour, Paris
2004 Pegaso Gallery, The Mystery of Colour, Rome
2003 Godot Artspace, Works on Paper, Bonn, Germany
2002 La Margutta Artspace, Morin: Paintings and Drawings 1998-2001, Rome
2001 Valori Gallery, Morin: Paintings, Drawings and Ceramics, in association with the Regional Council of Tuscia of Viterbo
2000 Exhibition Halls of Ex-Monte di Pietà, Vela Fluitantia (care of the Spoleto Festival/Municipal Council for Culture) texts by Piero Dorazio and Lorenzo Mango, Spoleto, Italy
1999 Sala degli Almadiani, Water Wes, (care of the Department of Culture, Municiplaity of Viterbo
1998 Exhibition Halls Ona & On,, Water Webs, Moscow
Curator Taissia Plotnokov
1997 L'Isola Gallery at Falconieri Palace, Breviario, S.Morin, L. Boille, T.Cascella, Rome
1996 Loli Palace, Aqua, XI Congress of the Association for Canadian Studies, Siena
1994 Studio Bocchi, Caught on the Line, Ricci Palace, (care of Lorenzo Mango) Rome
1993 Orsini Palace, Paintings 90/93, Bomarzo(VT) Italy
1992 La Gradiva Gallery, To Keep Them Away, (texts by Mario Pisani, Colette Rosselli and Silvia Tullio-Altan) Rome
GROUP SHOWS
2015 Orsini Palace, Wonder, Bomarzo, Viterbo
2010 Galleria Della Tartaruga, 20x20, Rome
2008 Galleria Gabriele Cappelletti , Group show 3435, Milan
2007 Galleria Della Tartaruga , artists of the gallery, Rome
2006 MIART with Galleria Gabriele Cappelletti, Milan
2006 International Centre for Contemporary Art, Plotart Europa, Genazzano, Italy
2005 DOT Gallery, Plotart Europa, Athens
2005 Experimental Museum of Contemporary Art (MLAC), Plotart Europa, Rome
2004 Orsini Palace, Incantesimi, organised by Simonetta Lux, Bomarzo(VT),Italy
2004 Arturarte Gallery, Biblical Impressions, Nepi(VT), Italy
2003 RIPARTE International Art Fair, Rome
2003 Castello di Graffignano, Three artists of the Tiber Valley, M. Mauri, S.Morin, T.Ragonesei, Graffigano(VT), Italy
2001 Municipal Museum Scuderie Aldobrandini, Artists far and near, Frascati, Italy
2000 Rumma Gallery, Women of Courage, curator: Patrizia Ferri, Rome
1999 Gallery Arti Visivi at Bibli (4 painters), Rome
1999 Gallery Arti Visivi at Bibli (4 painters), Rome
1995 Galeria Giulia, Paper Money, Rome
1994 Buschi Palace, Protagonists of Contemporary Art, Tarquinia, Italy
1993 La Gradiva Gallery, Contemporary Masters, Rome
1992 La Gradiva Gallery, Contemporary Masters, Rome
1992 Miralli Gallery, Masquerade, Viterbo, Italy
1991 Palazzo Vecchio, Patrimony in Agony, Civita di Bagnoreggio, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
2014 - Michael Korovkin, Fields of Vision, illustrated by Stephanie Morin,"Aleteya Publishers" St Petersburg, Russia
2012 - Stephanie Morin, Jakov Jakoulov, Michael Korovkin, All in one at once,
"University of Tuscia" Viterbo
2004 - Stephanie Morin, Confrontation, "Arturarte" gallery publication, Nepi(VT), Italy
2000 - Stephanie Morin, Vela Flutantia, Paintings 1996-00, "Global Village" Hanau/Frankfurt am Main
1998 - Stephanie Morin, Water Webs, Paintings 1995-97 - "On&On Publishers" Moscow
1996 - M. Korovkin, Breviario, with S. Morin, L. Boille e T. Cascella "Juliet Publishers" Trieste
1995 - Stephanie Morin, Caught on the Line, "Union Printing" Viterbo
1992 - Stephanie Morin, To Keep Them Away, "Parole Gelate" Rome
LINKS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro3EjJTLg2s
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
Equestrianism. Member of Italian Equestrian Federation.