Stephen Signa-Avilés is an artist and educator living in Urbana, IL, where he is an Assistant Professor of 3D Practice at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Stephen spent his formative years between Illinois, Kansas, and Michigan.

His research is invested in family/personal history and its connection to wider historical narratives while his practice is rooted in object-oriented collage; signaling the critical power inherent in hybridization.