Stephanie Rond

Stephanie Rond (born June 6, 1973 in Columbus, Ohio) is an Irish-American street artist and painter living in Columbus, Ohio USA. She is the creator of S.Dot Gallery, a dollhouse art gallery featured in the award winning documentary Tiny Out Loud. Her work explores the concepts of feminism and accessibility in art. Rond's work challenges the traditional gender roles associated with both indoor and outdoor space. The majority of her street art includes a character "ghost girl" who represents the ghost of humanity. Rond uses models to create her street art pieces using a hand-cut, multi-tier spray paint stenciling technique. It is Rond's intention to show women and girls as positive role models and active citizens, combating the typical objectification of women in advertising. Her street art has appeared throughout the United States.

Biography

Rond was born in Columbus, Ohio. She attended Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University. Rond began making street art in 2007 as a challenge to the male dominance of the art form. Rond is a feminist artist and is heavily involved in her community as an advocate for the arts. She currently resides in Columbus, Ohio where she works full-time as an artist, curator and community activist. She lives with her husband and their two cats, Dot and Dorrie.

Career Highlights

• An award-winning documentary was released in 2014 about Rond's work. The film, Tiny Out Loud, studies Rond’s gender-gouging street art and dollhouse art galleries. The film challenges the concept of the accessibility of art.
• Rond had the distinguished honor of representing all of North America in “She’s a Leader,” a street art project created by the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society based in Paris, France.
• Rond is the single representative of street art in the midwest portion of the United States on the Google Art Institute: Street Art Project, a global collection of street art.
• Rond is the creator of "Sign Your Art", a first of its kind street art project which engaged artists and members of the public to create a unique art installation across the entire city of Columbus. Small art works were attached to city street signs. Each sign was photographed and each location was marked on a Google map with a pin, spelling out the word ART across the entire city of Columbus.
• The Columbus Dispatch and Columbus Alive newspapers recognized Rond's 97 piece solo show, titled Dangerous Impermanence, on their list of Best Art Exhibits of 2014.
• Rond has been featured on multiple segments of the PBS television show Broad & High.
• On May 9, 2015, Rond completed a street art "Community Intervention" piece on the front plaza of the Columbus Museum of Art. This piece included participation from the public as part of the CMA's "Connector Series". This piece is now part of the Columbus Museum of Art's permanent collection.
• In 2015, Rond's art was featured on the cover of the University of Chicago Press publication SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
• Rond is the founder of the website Women Street Artists, an online catalog of female street artists from around the world.