Stephania Torres-Londono


Stephania Torres-Londono (she/her) is an art historian, geophysicist, and PhD student in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, and affiliated with the Program of Interdisciplinary Environmental Research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her research interlocks across oceanography, elemental media studies, feminist science studies, and so-called blue humanities. Stephania’s scholarly practice critically examines historical modes of mediating the ocean(ic) as a medium and milieu within the context of women scientists’ techne-based visual practices and their wider socially constructed research infrastructure.
    *Last Updated Jan. 2026

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


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 Collobrations in Art and Science, eds Cartwright, Lisa, Nan Renner, Joe Riley. Londono: Bloomsbury [forthcoming]


VISUAL PRACTICE

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 Cinemographer,  The Race to the Bottom


2024
Miskwish, Michael Connolly, Stephania Torres-Londono. “Kumeyaay Coastal Villages ARCGIS Map.” [link]


CURATORIAL

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

Curator, In A Star Give A World, Mandeville Art Collective, [link]


CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA

2026
Invited Presenting Scholar, Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Conference, [forthcoming]
   Presentation Title Pending    
   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    


TEACHING & RESEARCH ASSISTANT RECORD

2026
Graduate Teaching Assistant, VIS 101: Introduction to Urban Ecologies, Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Winter Quarter

2025
Teaching Assistant, VIS 20: Introduction to Art in Europe & America, Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Fall Quarter

Graduate Teaching Assistant, VIS 22: Formations of Modern Art, Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Winter Quarter

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: Spectulative Design Master Studio, Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Spring Quarter

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


SCHOLARLY & UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2026
Organizer, Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Conference, 2026 [forthcoming]

2024
Board Member, Mandeville Art Collective

Interviewee, Arts and Humanities Triton Giving Day [link]


FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE

2025
Marine Biodiversity Survey, R/V Sproul, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Educational Geological Survey, Kendall Frost Mission Bay Reserve

Educational Marine Geological Survey, San Dieguito Lagoon

2024
Educational Geological Survey, Rainbow Basin at Anza Borrego Desert State Park

2023
Educational Geological Survey, Torrey Pines Beach State Natural Reserve

2022
Educational Geological Survey, Scripps Coastal Reserve  

2021
Educational Geological Survey, Rainbow Basin at Anza Borrego Desert State Park

2015
PADI Open Water Certification


WORK EXPERIENCE

2023 – present
Educational Assistant, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego

2024 – 2025
Visual Arts Consultant for Medical Facilities and Centers, Palm Desert, California

2023 – 2024
Gallery Guide, Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego

2022 – 2024
Gallery Assistant, Gallery QI at UC San Diego