About

Stefano Passeri is an Italian-born artist based in the Washington, D.C. area. Using model-making, programming, digital fabrication, and simple mechanics, his work foregrounds the fragility and humor embedded in everyday technology. His projects reimagine monumental structures as everyday materials—cardboard, foam, or off-the-shelf fixtures in place of steel or stone—underscoring the relationship between permanence and impermanence. His recent work focuses on the aesthetics of estrangement, inviting technology to be seen less as spectacle than as a means of defamiliarizing familiar structures.

Stefano holds an M.Arch with distinction from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where his thesis was awarded the Frank O. Gehry Prize and the AIA Henry Adams Medal. He also holds a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Philosophy from the University of London, as well as a BSc from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.. He has taught architecture and digital media for more than a decade at institutions including SCI-Arc and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is currently a faculty member in Art and Immersive Media Design at the University of Maryland.