Sebastian Stumpf's work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, the Museum for Photography Braunschweig, the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen, the Kunstverein Göttingen and at the Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax. He participated in the 6th Berlin Biennale and in group exhibitions at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Z33, Hasselt, Tokyo Wonder Site/Institute of Contemporary Art Tokyo, as well as at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2012 he completed an art-in-architecture project for the German Federal Cultural Foundation in Halle. 

Sebastian Stumpf lives and works in Leipzig and Berlin.