Stefana Fratila is a Romanian-born artist, composer and sound designer based in Toronto, Canada. She is also a DJ and co-founder of CRIP RAVE, an event platform showcasing and prioritizing Crip, Disabled, Deaf, Mad, and Sick body-minds within safer and more accessible rave spaces.

She has exhibited, performed, and screened her work internationally, including at MoMA and e-flux (New York, USA), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Kamias Triennial (Quezon City, Philippines), and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto, Canada). She has also completed residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Wave Farm Transmission Arts, and CMMAS (Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts). Her film scores have screened at Le Centre Pompidou, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal, and The Viennale.

Since 2015, Stefana has released critically-acclaimed, boundary-pushing music via labels like ISLA, Bedroomer and Genero– capturing the attention of listeners and music journalists alike. Her track “Dancing” was chosen as Best of 2017 by XLR8R, calling it “a haunting cut”, with Thump describing it as “hypnotic”. For her 7” Swallowed Seeds/Knowing, she was lauded for producing “avant-garde techno that tackles misogynist violence with seething, technology-aided rage” (Vice) and for creating her own “distinct brand of experimental electronic music” (A-Side).