STEPHANIE PFRIENDER STYLANDER BIOGRAPHY

Stephanie Pfriender Stylander was born in New York. She began photographing fashion for editorial clients such as French Glamour, 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 2018 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.

In 2025, Pfriender Stylander began working in the studio with photo transfers, acrylic paint and mixed media onto canvas. From the beginning of her career, she focused on repetition of image, layering imagery, collage and so designed many editorial pages for the magazines. Now she has returned to this process of multiples with new technique and form.

Pfriender Stylander’s photographs have been included at Paris Photo, Photo Basel, Photo London, Photo Shanghai, AIPAD New York, Barcelona’s Festival International de la Photo de Mode and housed in the Nicola Erni Collection and other museum and 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, Pfriender Stylander had a solo exhibition in Paris, New York City Lockdown with Galerie Sophie Scheidecker. She had a joint exhibition with Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 2 Women of Style at the Staley-Wise Gallery, New York in 2020. Her work has received numerous awards from American Photography, Communication Arts, International Photography Awards, and The Lucie Foundation.

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, Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, Ira Stehmann Fine Art, Munich, and Izzy Gallery, Toronto. Pfriender Stylander lives and works in New York City.

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