Stevia Ndoe (she/they) is a 19-year-old, Cameroonian-American fine arts photographer based in Chicago, IL studying Photography & Imaging at New York University. Ndoe’s art aims to answer the questions her younger self was too scared to ask. She explores the themes of Blackness, age, family, beauty, and community through her work as a means to explore her own identity and status in society. She strives to highlight the joy of being Black and rewrite the narrative of Blackness that includes Black joy, Black love, and Black culture/fashion. Ndoe’s work is not only her journey of self-exploration but a tool she uses to further connect and heal her community. Through VR and AR, she hopes to expand her artwork to more public and modern settings in order to redefine what it means to be a part of an art space.

 

Ndoe had her work displayed at Gallery 37 in Chicago (from her series "Family Matters") from 2017 - 2019, the Baryshnikov Art Center in New York City (from her series "Family Matters") in 2020, the Belin-Bank Art Center in Des Moines (from her series "Family Matters") in 2020, at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago (from her series "Family Matters") in 2020, the Hyde Park Art Center (from her series "Family Matters") in 2020, 2021, & 2022, BMO Harris on Lasalle in downtown Chicago (for the "Hope and Change" Mural) in 2020, and was published on the New York Times website and newspaper (from her series "In Isolation: COVID-19, 2021). Ndoe won the 2022 AIGA Worldstudio Scholarship in Photography, the 2022 "What's Your Lens" Competition in Chicago, the National YoungArts Foundation Honorable Mention Award in Photography (2020 & 2021), received a Gold Key Portfolio Award, 1 Silver Key, and 3 Honorable Mention Awards from the Scholastic Art & Writing Foundation (2020) as well as recognition of her work in the Midwest, and received the Senior Achievement Award in art from the Chicago Public Library Foundation (2020). 

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