BIO

Stephanie Pfriender Stylander was born in New York and apprenticed under the celebrated photographer Art Kane after becoming inspired by the photographers she observed at rock and roll concerts. She began photographing fashion for editorial clients such as Glamour, Elle, GQ, Interview, and Harper’s Bazaar in the 1990s, which led to portrait assignments of prominent actors and musicians. Her fashion and portrait work was re-introduced in 2019 with the publication of her first book The Untamed Eye.

One of her prominent shoots was of Kate Moss who was unknown when she posed on the streets of New York in 1992 for Pfriender Stylander, who likened her to Anna Karina in the films of Jean-Luc Godard. Pfriender Stylander’s photographs for magazines and advertisements in the 1990s and 2000s celebrate a sensuality and grittiness, revealing character and psychological truth, inspired by the French New Wave cinema.

Pfriender Stylander's photographs have been included at Paris Photo, Photo Basel, Photo London, Photo Shanghai, AIPAD New York, Highlights Art Fair Munich, Barcelona’s Festival International de la Photo de Mode, and are housed in the Nicola Erni Collection and other private collections worldwide. In 2022, her work was included at the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, A Personal View on High Fashion & Street Style; Photographs from the Nicola Erni Collection, 1930’s to Now. In 2021, she had a solo exhibition in Paris, ‘NYC Lockdown’, with Galerie Sophie Scheidecker. In 2020 Pfriender Stylander had a joint exhibition with Louise Dahl-Wolfe at the Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, 2 Women of Style. Her work has received numerous awards from American Photography, Communication Arts, International Photography Awards, and The Lucie Foundation. In 2023 Pfriender Stylander was awarded a worldwide advertising campaign for the AMAFFI Perfume House.

She is a graduate from the School of Visual Arts, New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography and an Associate of Science in photography from Endicott College, Massachusetts.

She is represented by the Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, Izzy Gallery, Toronto, Ira Stehmann Fine Art, Munich and Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris.

Pfriender Stylander lives with her husband in downtown New York City.

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STEPHANIE PFRIENDER STYLANDER

Born 1960 in Brooklyn Heights, New York
Lives and works in New York City

EDUCATION

2000 Center For Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, Five Year Program, New York
1983     Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York
1980     Associate of Science, Endicott College, Massachusetts

SOLO EXHIBITION

2021     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander: New York City Lockdown, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS + PHOTO FAIRS

2024 Photo London, London, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker 2024 AIPAD, New York, Staley-Wise Gallery 2023 Paris Photo, Paris France, Staley-Wise Gallery 2023 Paris Photo, Paris France, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker 2023 PHOTOFAIRS, New York City, Staley-Wise Gallery 2023 Photo London, London, England, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker 2023 Who’s Who? Group Exhibition, Staley-Wise Gallery 2022 Paris Photo, Paris, France, Staley-Wise Gallery 2022     Paris Photo, Paris, France, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker 2022 Highlights International, Munich, Germany, Ira Stehmann Fine Art 2022 A Personal View on High Fashion & Street Style: Photographs from the Nicola Erni Collection, 1930’s to Now. Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida 2022 Faces, Group Exhibition, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris 2022 Art & Fashion, Group Exhibition, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York 2022 AIPAD, New York, United States, Staley-Wise Gallery 2022 Photo London, London, England, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker 2021 Paris Photo, Paris, France, Staley-Wise Gallery
2021 Paris Photo, Paris, France, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker
2021     Highlights International, Munich, Germany, Ira Stehmann Fine Art
2021     Cologne Fine Arts & Design, Germany, Ira Stehmann Fine Art
2021 Museum Bensheim, Germany, Street Photography 
2021     Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, Staley-Wise Gallery
2020     2 Women of Style with Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York
2019     Paris Photo, Paris, France, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker
2019     Photo Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Ira Stehmann Fine Arts
2019     Photo London, London, England, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker
2019     AIPAD, New York, United States, Staley-Wise Gallery
2019     Highlights International, Munich, Germany, Ira Stehmann Fine Arts
2018 Segreto, Roar of Silence, Photography Center of Palermo, Sicily
2017     Paris Photo, Paris, France, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker
2015     Photo Shanghai, China, Staley-Wise Gallery

AWARDS

2021 International Photography Awards, Fine Art: Internal City, NYC Lockdown
2021     American Photography, Internal City, New York City Lockdown
2019     International Photography Awards, Monograph: The Untamed Eye
2019     American Photography, Monograph: The Untamed Eye
2017 American Photography, Fine Art: Roar of Silence
2016     International Photography Awards, Fine Art: Roar of Silence
1990’s   American Photography: Magazine Editorial
1990’s   Communication Arts: Magazine Editorial
1990’s   Graphis: Magazine Editorial

MONOGRAPH

2019     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, The Untamed Eye, MW Editions, Printed in Italy

SELECTED PRESS PUBLICATIONS

2021     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, Eerie Photographs in Lockdown,  AnOther Magazine
2021     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
2021     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, New York City Lockdown, Collectible DRY
2020     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, The Female Gaze in Fashion Photography, Forbes
2020     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, The Best US Exhibitions, The Guardian
2020     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, Opposites to Zero, Collectible DRY
2019     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, Anniversary Issue of Hero’s, MILKX
2018     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, The Untamed Eye, French Vogue
2018     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, En Un Mundo De Estrellas, Vogue Spain
2018     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, The Untamed Eye, Musee
2018     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, Fashion Stories, Italian Elle
2018     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, The Restless Spirit of the 90’s, i-D
2018     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, Peels Back the Glossy Veneer, Wallpaper
2018     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, A Conversation, Schon
2018     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, Embody the Spirit of the 90’s, The Washington Post

SELECTED EDITORIAL PUBLICATIONS

British GQ
Elle
Esquire
French Glamour
German Amica
German Elle
GQ
Harpers Bazaar Uomo
Interview
Mirabella
Newsweek
Out
Rolling Stone
The New York Times
Vanity Fair
Vibe
Vogue Brazil
Vogue Italia
Vogue Spain
Vogue

GUEST SPEAKER

2019     Ludlow House, New York        
2019     NY Film Academy, New York
1990’s   School of Visual Arts, New York
1990’s   Endicott College, Massachusetts
1990’s   Art Director’s Club, New York

PHILANTHROPY

2017     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, Music Heals Music Equalizes Music Builds, Refugee Children and Safe Housing, Athens, Greece
2015     Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, You Me We, Girls and Women of Northern India, Breakthrough, New York and Delhi, India