Biography
Stephanie L. Franks lives and works in New York City and Shelter Island, NY. She has exhibited extensively in New York City, the U.S, and internationally including at the National Academy of Design in New York City and the Royal Academy in London, England and the Higashi Hiroshima Museum in Japan. Franks has been a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant and twice, a Mercedes Matter Award Recipient. She has had residencies at Yaddo, the Djerassi Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She taught at Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, Kansas City Art Institute and the Chautauqua Institute. Franks received a BA from Barnard College, an MFA at Queens College and studied at the New York Studio School and Yale Norfolk. She is represented by the Bowery Gallery in New York City.
Stephanie L. Franks lives and works in New York City and Shelter Island, NY. She has exhibited extensively in New York City, the U.S, and internationally including at the National Academy of Design in New York City and the Royal Academy in London, England and the Higashi Hiroshima Museum in Japan. Franks has been a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant and twice, a Mercedes Matter Award Recipient. She has had residencies at Yaddo, the Djerassi Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She taught at Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, Kansas City Art Institute and the Chautauqua Institute. Franks received a BA from Barnard College, an MFA at Queens College and studied at the New York Studio School and Yale Norfolk. She is represented by the Bowery Gallery in New York City.