Eija Loponen-Stephenson is an intradisciplinary artist, educator, and performance studies researcher from rural British Columbia. She is a Master’s student in the department of Art Education at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. In 2019 she received a BFA in Sculpture and Installation with distinction from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U). Eija is the recipient of the Ada Slaight Scholarship (2015) for academic merit, the Hadyn Davies Memorial Award (2019), and the Joseph Armand Bombardier CGS Masters SSHRC Scholarship (2021). Her work has been shown in Montreal, Toronto, and British Columbia. 

Her Master’s thesis entitled Urban Choreographics examines how adult human cognition and epistemic formation are affected by bodily movement through contemporary urban architectural spaces. Her artistic practice is similarly concerned with kinetic building/body relationships, urban development, and the city’s material decay. She explores these topics through assemblage sculpture, performance, and wearable art.