Bridget Steis

Bridget Steis is an acclaimed, multifaceted design visionary whose global career spans independent fine art, multimedia installations, film, and commercial branding. Formally educated at York University and a member of the Associated Designers of Canada, her practice operates at the intersection of fine painting, graphic design, and tactile fiber art.

Steis's visual art deeply investigates the fragile nature of urban belonging, memory, and displacement. In solo installations like Belonging, she treats hand-stitched thread as a drawing medium to recreate Hong Kong's Chinese Banyan trees, transforming fabric and tangled, spilling thread into an environmental metaphor for disappearing culture. Her graphic and material sensibilities cross frequently into Hong Kong's contemporary gallery ecosystem. She was recently featured in the multi-disciplinary group exhibition Skin Deep (《膚淺》) at Mufei Art Space alongside local artists Carol Ho and Celia Ko, an exhibition focused on dismantling the traditional boundaries between fine arts and domestic craft.

This fine-arts-meets-precision background carries over seamlessly into her commercial ventures. In 2008, Steis founded Empress Chic, an Asia-based international design agency where she translates her aesthetic into crisp corporate branding, web design, and custom specialty murals. Through this platform, she fulfills a broader vision to empower and mentor a handpicked roster of creative professionals while steadily expanding her multidisciplinary footprint across global markets.