Stephania Torres-Londono
EDUCATION
2024 – present
Ph.D. Student, Art History, Theory, & Criticism, Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego.
Specialization in the Program for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research at the Center of Marine Biodiversity & Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2020 – 2024
B.A., Art History, Theory, & Criticism, Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego
B.S., Geoscience With a Concentration in Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2026
Torres-Londono, Stephania, Lisa Cartwright, and Jeffrey Stuker. “Drawing Down the Microscope: Easter Ellen Cupp’s Plankton Research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography” in Visualizing Oceanography: Pacific Collaborations in Art and Science, eds Cartwright, Lisa, Nan Renner, Joe Riley. London: Bloomsbury [forthcoming]
SELECTED VISUAL WORKS
2026
Torres-Londono, Stephania. “ArcGIS Map of Kumeyaay Coastal Villages” in Ha Silsh Eyiir Kumeyaay: Kumeyaay Ocean Coast, by Michael Connolly Miskwish. San Diego: Sunbelt Publications [forthcoming]
2025
Director and Cinematographer, The Race to the Bottom
2024
Miskwish, Michael Connolly, Stephania Torres-Londono. “Kumeyaay Coastal Villages ARCGIS Map.” [link]
SELECTED CURATORIAL WORK
2024
Co-Curator, Embodied Pacific: Three Lives, Getty PST Art: Art & Science Collide, The Gallery at Geisel Library, UC San Diego
Co-Curator, Embodied Pacific: Mural-Canoe, Getty PST Art: Art & Science Collide, Kendall-Frost Marsh Mission Bay Reserve, San Diego
2023
Curator, BARCA: Bioarchitecture + Art Revitalization + Chamorro Assemblages,Structural & Materials Engineering Building, UC San Diego
SELECTED CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA
2026
Invited Presenting Scholar, Considering the Octopus Model Conference,
Sail Away: The Genealogy of Women Seafaring as Sci-Artists
UC San Diego, La Jolla, California
2025
Presenting Scholar, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference
Torres-Londono, Stephania, Abby Bratton. “Is This Science?”: Tidepooling Practices and Potentials in Proximity to Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Seattle, Washington
2024
Panel Moderator, Embodied Pacific: Three Lives, Getty PST Art: Art & Science Collide Symposium
Gallery QI at UC San Diego, La Jolla, California
2023
Co-Presenting Scholar, FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science, and Technology
Cartwright, Lisa, Stephania Torres-Londono, Materials, Fabrication, and Historical Remediation in the Embodied Pacific Project
Taos, New Mexico
Invited Speaker, Arts and Humanities Dean’s Advisory Council, Winter Quarter
Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego, La Jolla, California
Invited Speaker, Arts and Humanities Dean’s Advisory Council, Spring Quarter
Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego, La Jolla, California
SELECTED RESEARCH ASSISTANT RECORD
2023
Archival Researcher for Dr. Lisa Cartwright, Graphic Ocean: Navigating Pacific Science and Design
Archival Researcher for Curator Ceci Moss, Mandeville Art Gallery
Undergraduate Instructional Assistant, VIS 190: Speculative Design Master Studio, Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Spring Quarter
SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
2025
Travel Grant, Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego
2024
Diversity Fellowship, Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego
GIS Commission Fund, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
2023
Design and Innovation Lab Internship Grant, UC San Diego
SELECTED SCHOLARLY & UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2026
Organizer, Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Conference, 2026 [forthcoming]
2025
Judge of the Geisel Library Art of Science Contest, The Art of Science: Five Years Through the Lens of Discovery [link]
UAW 4811 Union Member [ongoing]
2024
Board Member, Mandeville Art Collective
Interviewee, Arts and Humanities Triton Giving Day [link]
SELECTED FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE
2025
Biodiversity Survey, R/V Sproul, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Geological Survey, Kendall Frost Mission Bay Reserve
Marine Geological Survey, San Dieguito Lagoon
2024
Geological Survey, Rainbow Basin at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
2023
Geological Survey, Torrey Pines Beach State Natural Reserve
2022
Geological Survey, Scripps Coastal Reserve
2021
Geological Survey, Rainbow Basin at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
2015
PADI Open Water Certification
SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE
2023 – present
Educational Assistant, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
2023 – 2024
Gallery Guide, Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego
2022 – 2024
Gallery Assistant, Gallery QI at UC San Diego