2026
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California, The Stars Watch from Long Ago
November 14, 2026, through January 9, 2027
Solo exhibition featuring the animated film, preparatory collages, and other installation objects and prints.
Annecy International Festival of Animation, Annecy, France, The Stars Watch from Long Ago
June 21 through June 28, 2026
Screening in competition in the Outer Limits section of the festival.
Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado, The Stars Watch from Long Ago
April 9 through May 30, 2026
Solo exhibition featuring the animated film, preparatory collages, and other installation objects and prints.
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
April 2026
Stacey taught an in-person workshop and gave a presentation as part of the California Institute of the Arts’ Cinematic Voices program.
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, The Stars Watch from Long Ago
March 24 through March 29, 2026
Film awarded the Richard Myers Award for Best Non-Narrative Film.
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California, “Run Fast Bite Hard”
March 14 through May 30, 2026
Stacey’s early film Totem will be featured in a group exhibition focusing on human/animal relationships.
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, The Stars Watch from Long Ago
February 23, 2026
Screening of 22-minute animated film.
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, The Stars Watch from Long Ago
January 31, 2026
Premiere screening of 22-minute animated film, seven years in the making.
2025
EX!T — Experimental Media Art Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
December 2025
Edge of Alchemy screened at this important media festival
Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Duologies
July 10 through September 27, 2025
Stacey was part of a group exhibition that paired select gallery artists to initiate a discourse between their work.
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, Dazzle with Darkness
January 23 through May 4, 2025
Stacey was one of 31 artists who illuminated darkness through diverse media in BMoCA’s Dazzle with Darkness exhibition, guest-curated by Rebecca DiDomenico.
2024
State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
March 25 through April 5, 2024
Stacey and her collaborator, John Romano, were among the four artists invited by curator Lydia Matthews, Professor of Visual Culture at the New School, New York City, for a two-week visit to the Silk Museum. Matthews secured a State Department intercultural exchange grant for the visit. Stacey, John, and the other artists created work inspired by their experience in Tbilisi and at the museum. The works premiered in September 2024 as part of a celebration marking the major renovation of the historic building that houses the collection.
Normal Editions, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
February 4 through February 10, 2024
In residence, Stacey created an artist’s print for Normal Editions.
2023
ArtYard, Frenchtown, New Jersey, ArtYard Live Animation Festival
September 2023
Concurrent with Edge of Alchemy installation (below), Stacey presented her work at the Animation Live Festival, included with animators Miwa Matreyek,Laura Heit, and Melissa Ferrari.
ArtYard,Frenchtown, New Jersey, Edge of Alchemy
August 1 through October 31, 2023
Film, installation objects, and collages
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries
May 13, 2023, through 2025
Phantom Canyon is included in the current selection from the permanent collection of Contemporary Art.
University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado, Onward and Upward: Shark’s Ink
September 6, 2022, through July 2023
The print Vital Forces, created in collaboration with Shark’s Ink, is included in this survey exhibition of artist prints.
Robischon Gallery,Denver, Colorado, 45 + Anniversary Exhibition Series: Part II
Anatron, Binoculus, and Metrometer were featured in the anniversary show celebrating 40 years of exhibitions.
2022
Brattle Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Night Reels: Stacey Steers
Curated by Wenhua Shi, the survey screening of the films was followed by a conversation with film historian Shira Segal.
Red Cat, Los Angeles, California, Inner Space: Miniature Epics, 2022
Edge of Alchemy was included in this program by Mara Fortes, the Telluride Film Festival curator.
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, Disruption at the Denver Art Museum
Night Hunter House included in the group show at the Denver Art Museum.
2021
Animario Madrid, Spain, Stacey Steers: la Elegancia Analógica
Retrospective screening
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain, Interior Screen: Stacey Steers
Gloria Vilches invited Stacey Steers’ collage films for installation.
Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal, Québec, Canada, Night Reels: The Work of Stacey Steers
Albright Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania, Stacey Steers: Edge of Alchemy
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York, Night Reels: The Work of Stacey Steers
2020
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado,Night Reels: The Work of Stacey Steers
A broad survey of Steers’ collage films and installation objects, curated by artist Kim Dickey.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, , Stacey Steers: Edge of Alchemy
Solo exhibition
Peep Hole Cinema, Excerpt from Edge of Alchemy,Los Angeles, California
Two-person show with Charlotte Pryce
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St. Mark’s Danspace Project, New York, New York, Sam Kim: Another Animal
Choreographer Sam Kim performed her work, Another Animal, incorporating images from Stacey’s repertory along with animation created for the event
K.Oss Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, Stacey Steers: Night Hunter
Ambulante Film Festival, Oaxaca, Mexico, Injerto. Enfoque Stacey Steers
Presentation of films and talk about their making while in attendance at the festival
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, Steers: Edge of Alchemy
On view in the video gallery 21c
Museum Hotel, Lexington, Kentucky, Off Spring: New Generations
Group exhibition curated by Alice Gray Stites where Stacey delivered opening address -
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, California
Stacey became a voting member
Summer 2018 screenings
Annecy International Festival of Animation, Annecy, France; Animator Festival, Posnan, Poland; and Curtas Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal, Edge of Alchemy in competition
Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon, Triology series including Edge of Alchemy, Night Hunter and Phantom Canyon
Stacey Steers and Chris Doyle were featured in a retrospective exhibition. Steers showed the three films in her Trilogy series.
Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, New York, Walter Reade Theater, Emotion Pictures International
Edge of Alchemy featured in the series, screened before F.W. Murnau’s film Sunrise.Night Hunter, screened before Victor Sjöström’s film, The Wind. -
B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany, Edge of Alchemy
Film screened as part of the BC Biennale
Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Edge of Alchemy, Night Hunter, and Phantom Canyon, with a selection of silver gelatin photos taken from collages, at Catharine Clark Gallery as part of Paris Photo
DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Edge of Alchemy
Included in competition
Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, Colorado, Edge of Alchemy
Screened at the festival
Art in Print, Prix de Print
Stacey’s print with Shark’s Ink, Vital Signs, won the Prix de Print at Art in Print magazine
Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland, Edge of Alchemy
International premiere of Edge of Alchemy screened in competition as part of the Pardo di Domani section of the festival
San Francisco Art Book Fair, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California, Edge of Alchemy, Night Hunter, and Phantom Canyon
The gallery presented a broadside created in collaboration with the San Francisco Film Society for the 60th anniversary of the San Francisco International Film Festival, featured a photo image from Edge of Alchemy
Photo Basel: Catharine Clark Gallery, Basel, Switzerland, Edge of Alchemy
Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, Washington, Edge of Alchemy
Screened in competition
Nashville Film Festival, Nashville, Tennessee, Edge of Alchemy
Awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Experimental Film
San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, California, Edge of Alchemy
Screened in the Golden Globe shorts competition
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Edge of Alchemy
Awarded the Peter Wilde Award for the Most Technically Innovative film
Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Stacey Steers: Trilogy
Exhibition featured the film of Edge of Alchemy, and was shown with preparatory collages, photos, prints, and installation objects from the trilogy of films
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California, Stacey Steers: Edge of Alchemy
Solo exhibition featured Edge of Alchemy, along with preparatory collages, photos, prints, and installation objects
South Dakota Art Museum, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, Stacey Steers: Night Hunter
Featuring the Night Hunter project, including film, installations, preparatory collages, and shadow boxes
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Stacey Steers: Phantom Canyon
Sculptural installation project Phantom Canyon–Stack of Beds, was commissioned by Kohler Art Center, and accompanied the film Phantom Canyon. -
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, Edge of Alchemy
Sneak preview screening
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, Showing Off: Modern and Contemporary Acquisitions
Night Hunter House was included in exhibition of recent acquisitions