Stephanie Pierce was born in 1974 in Memphis, TN. She received her MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle and attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art. She is an Assistant Professor of Painting at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
Leaning into her longtime practice of working from prolonged observation—for a duration of months, if not years—she captures the effervescent fluidity of passing time. Her work probes the ineffable found in the everyday and aims to locate a material poetry through these things that are close to the artist. In the artists words, "It is through making a painting that I come to understand what is there."