Stephanie Pierce received an MFA from University of Washington, Seattle, BFA from The Art Institute of Boston, and she attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art. Stephanie Pierce’s observation-based paintings explore interrelationships between light, time, and sound, as well as perception and how reality can be represented as it is reconsidered over time. She has shown nationally and is represented by Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in NY, and Alpha Gallery in Boston. Stephanie received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2014 and an Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in 2012. Her work has been published in the New Yorker Magazine and is included in the collections of William Dreyfus, Joan and Roger Sonnabend, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Boston Public Library.

Stephanie Pierce received her MFA from the University of Washington, BFA from The Art Institute of Boston, and she attended the Yale-Norfolk Summer School of Art. Pierce’s observation-based paintings explore interrelationships between light, time, and sound, as well as how reality can be represented as it is reconsidered over time. She’s represented by Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY, and Alpha Gallery, Boston. Honors include a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, 2014, Arkansas Arts Council Artist Fellowship, 2012, publication in the New Yorker, and inclusion in the collections of William Dreyfus, Joan and Roger Sonnabend, and Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Born 1974, Memphis, TN

Education

2006 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, MFA, Painting and Drawing
1996 The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, BFA, Painting and Printmaking
1995 Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT

Solo/Two Person Exhibitions

2015 Radiant Welter, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Wake, solo exhibit, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY, NY. Stephanie Pierce and
Cynthia Nourse Thompson, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Univeristy of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, AR
2013 Incommensurable Things: Stephanie Pierce and Emily Gherard, Russell Day Gallery,
Everett Community College, Everett WA
2011 Recent Work, solo exhibit, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Everything is Germinal, solo exhibit, Wynn Bone Gallery, Annapolis, MD
2008 Works on Paper, solo exhibit, Parish Hall, St. Paul’s, Fayetteville, AR
2007 Small works, solo exhibit, University of Arkansas, Fine Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR

Group Exhibitions

2016 Mixed Environs, Contemporary Painters, Lore Dagenstein Gallery, Susquehana University, Sellinsgrove, PA
Inaugural exhibition, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2015 Staten Island Seen, Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY
A Feast of Planes, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects at Market Art + Design, Bridgehampton, NY
2014 Something Remains, 3 person show with Emily Gerhard and Kimberly Trowbridge, Blindfold Gallery, Seattle WA
Bedtime Stories, Alpha gallery, Boston, MA
Art Hamptons, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, Southampton, NY
Miami Project, Miami Art Fair, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, Miami, F
MSSU Contemporary Painting Symposium, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO
Painting the Familiar and the Ordinary: Contemporary Still Life, The Unviersity Art Gallery, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
2013 AIB Alumni Invitational Exhibition, Main Gallery, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
2012 Space in Context: Three Perspectives, Mary Tinnin Jaye Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, AR
Dallas Art Fair, Alpha Gallery, Dallas, TX
Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Gallery artists, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY, NY
2011 Pink Moon, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY, NY Art Chicago 2011, Alpha Gallery, Chicago, IL
Inaugural show, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Lavish, Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT
Augmenters and Interlopers, SUGAR Gallery, University of Arkansas, Bentonville, AR
2010 Site/Sight, Argazzi Art Gallery, Lakeville, CT
Oil and Water, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, Gallery Schlesinger, NY, NY
Undercrowded, 115 Gallery, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
Buoyantgravity, 3 person show, Washington Art Association, Washington, Depot, CT
2009 Summer Invitational, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Sound and Vision: Circuit, Tube, and Prism, Curated by Gideon Bok, Space Gallery, Portland, ME Start/ Paper, DDP Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
2009 Invitational, A Class of Hick’s, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Anonymous Drawings No.9, Kunstraum Kreuberg/ Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, juried show
Treading Lightly: One foot at a time, Waterfall Arts, Contemporary Arts Center, Belfast, ME A
2007 Sense of Place, Askew Nixon Ferguson, Memphis, TN, juried show
Wynn Bone Gallery, Annapolis, MD
2006 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Visually Speaking, University House at Wallingford, Seattle, WA
2005 Works in Progress, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2002 Wynn Bone Gallery, St. Augustine, FL Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
2000 Endings and Beginnings, Millennial juried exhibition, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC.
Juried by Mathew Drutt, Associate Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
1999 3 person show, Independent Art Space, Asheville, NC
1997 Regional print conference, Boston University, Graduate Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 Senior Exhibition, The Art Institute of Boston, Main Gallery, Boston, MA Juried show, First Expressions Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 Yale/ Norfolk Summer Exhibit, Ellen Battell Stoekel Estate, Norfolk, CT
Student Printmakers, Wheeler Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA
1993 Young Printmakers, Galerie Mourlot, Boston, MA

Awards and Honors

2016 Residency, Centre d’art Manay Art Centre, CAMAC, Marnay Sur Seine, France
2015 Residency, Soaring Gardens, Lerman Charitable Trust, Laceyville, PA
2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, NY, NY
2013 Robert C. and Sandra Connor Endowed Faculty Fellowship, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2012 Individual Artist Fellowship, Arkansas Arts Council, Little Rock, AR
Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Iniversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2009 Residency, Soaring Gardens, Lerman Charitable Trust, Laceyville, PA
Travel Grant, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Individual Artist Grant, Art Amiss, Fayetteville, AR
2006 Doris Totten Chase Graduating with Excellence Award, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2005 Gonzales Foundation Award, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2004 Top Scholars Award, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1996 Senior Fine Arts Award in Excellence, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
1995 Ellen Battell Stoekel Fellowship, Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art
1992 Portfolio Competition, Best in Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Boston, MA
1992-1996 Presidential Scholarship, Full Tuition, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA

Bibliography

Critics Pick, review, Kate McQuaid, the Boston Globe, April 23, 2015, p.G9

Brett Baker, Stephanie Pierce: Sight and Sound, Painters Table, http://painters table.com/blog/stephanie-‐pierce-‐enharvey ‐fine-‐art-‐projects#.U_lmJEg7-‐RY, June 9, 2014

Painting featured on the cover and inside of Poetry NW magazine, Volume VIII, Issue 2, Fall/ Winter 2013-‐14

“City Lights”, Reproduction of my painting, Interiors Magazine, August/ September, 2013, pp.110, 118.

The Paris Review, blog, paintings accompanying poems by Henri Cole, July 3, 2013
Wolf Interval, Arkansas Sketchbook, Arkansas Life Magazine, February 2013, p.10

100 Prints, Celebrating 100 Years, Catalog, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, 2012

Painting featured with poetry by Jennifer Chapis, online publication,
Bombblog,http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6541, April 6, 2012

Rivka Galchen, “Appreciation”, The New Yorker Magazine, Fiction and
Poetry, March 19, 2012, p. 65

Neil Plotkin, Stephanie Pierce Interview, Painting Perceptions, paintingperceptions.com, Aug 10, 2011

Rebecca Harp, Interview with Stephanie Pierce, Jerusalem Studio School, jssart.wordpress.com, 2010

Neil Plotkin and Jennifer Gilchrist, Oil and Water at Fred Bancroft and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, Painting Perceptions, paintingperceptions.com, May 29, 2010

Cate McQuaid, Emerging Artists, The Boston Globe, June 24, 2009

Sam King, Interview with Stephanie Pierce, MW Capacity, mwcapacity.com, February 16, 2009

Regina Hackett, Show review, Seattle post –Intelligencer, June 2, 2006

Jean Hess. Show review, Art Papers Magazine, July/Aug, 2001

Mathew Drutt. 2000/2001 Endings and Beginnings, Catalog, Asheville Art Museum, 2000

Nancy Stapen. Art Institute Featured at Galerie Mourlot, The Boston Globe, Aug 19, 1993

COLLECTIONS

William Dreyfus, Kisco, NY
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
Joan and Roger Sonnabend Collection, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Scholastic Corporation, NY, NY