Stephanie Hightower

Exhibition Dates: June 12, 2014 — April 30, 2015

Originally from Oklahoma, Stephanie Hightower is a New York and Berlin based visual artist and professor of painting and drawing. Hightower is the recent recipient of a research/lecture fellowship, entitled “What is a Meadow – Landscapes of New York”, with City University of New York hosted by Technische Universität of Berlin. Other awards include grants and residencies with The Bronx Council for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, and the Excellence in Education Honoree for NURTUREart.

In 2014 Hightower collaborated with landscape architect and photographer Dorothea Hokema for two installations in New York: “Landscape/Landschaft: Urban Planes and Fields” in the Sprint Flatiron Prow Art Space, curated by Cheryl McGinnis Projects and an exhibition of paintings, drawings and photography for the New York Mid-Manhattan Public Library, curated by Arezoo Moseni. The upcoming catalog, “Urban Arcadia”, features Hightower’s paintings and drawings, with essays by Cyriaco Lopes and Dorothea Hokema.

Hightower’s work was selected for other recent exhibitions at John Jay College, The Cooper Union, the Bronx Museum, Fordham University, Monroe College in Rochester, and University of Connecticut among others. She serves as director and faculty member for the School of Art Pre-college Program at The Cooper Union, and as Associate Professor of Art at John Jay College. Hightower teaches painting, drawing, visual thinking, and contemporary art issues. She has also delivered lectures for Learning through the Arts at the Guggenheim Museum, juried and curated numerous national arts competitions, student exhibitions, and was commissioned as a muralist for Brooklyn Public Schools through the Rotunda Gallery.

Hightower was awarded the Potawatomi Tribal Scholarship for graduate study, and holds degrees from Pratt Institute and the University of Dallas.