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Stephanie Temma Hier (born in 1992 in Toronto, Ontario) is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Known for creating elaborate sculptural ceramics that act as frames for her meticulous oil paintings, her work has been shown in major solo and group exhibitions across multiple countries.

Education

Hier was trained in figurative painting at the Academy of Art Canada since the age of 11 and completed a BFA in painting at Ontario College of Art & Design University in 2014.[1][2] She is a self-taught ceramicist, learning through trial and error and from online forums.[2][3]

Work

Each of Hier's pieces begins its life as a hand-built ceramic frame, often completely unreminiscent of the familiar rectangular format and instead composed of sculpted replicas of everyday items or natural forms.[2][4] The characteristics of each frame impact what she chooses to paint, as she looks for pairings "that create an interesting synergy or tension”.[2]

Painting

Stephanie Temma Hier's paintings materialize from diverse and seemingly disparate sources including cartoons, pop culture ephemera, stock imagery, temporary tattoos and canonical material[5]. Her practice is characterized by a witty exploration of visual culture in the Information Age, exploring the parameters of painting to create a semiotic language while collapsing the boundaries between high and low art to evince the “flatness of possibility” she detects online.[6][1] Consumption is a major theme in Hier's work, and depictions of food in all stages of growth, production, and ingestion abound.

Sculpture

Stephanie Temma Hier is also known for creating elaborate ceramic sculpture as framing devices for her paintings. Her photo-realistic paintings are embedded in these three-dimensional frames, often ornamented with abstract or representational sculptures of flora and fauna (squirrels, eggs, asparagus, snails. etc.) and brought to life using hand-made glazes[7]. Hier employs a process by which her ceramic sculptural frames dictate the imagery she decides to paint thus creating a relationship between the content and form and provoking novel dialogues that evince whimsy and unease[7].

Exhibitions

Stephanie Temma Hier has produced solo and two person shows at Gallery Vacancy (Shanghai), Franz Kaka (Toronto), Y2K Group (New York), David Dale (Glasgow), Downs and Ross (New York), Neochrome Gallery (Turin), Three Four Three Four (New York), Ed. Varie Gallery at NADA (New York) and Johannes Vogt (New York).[8] Hier has also exhibited internationally at venues such as Arsenal Contemporary (New York), Antoine Ertaskiran (Montreal), Thierry Goldberg (New York), Plus One Gallery (Antwerp), Anonymous Gallery (Mexico City), Bureau (New York), The Kitchen (New York), Museo della Frutta (Turin), The Power Plant (Toronto), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)[5].

Hier is the recipient of multiple grants from Canada Council for the Arts, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and has participated in residencies at Hospitalfield (Scotland), Shandaken: Stormking (New York) and Salon Nino Mier (Cologne).[9] Hier was also a finalist for the RBC Painting competition in 2016 and 2018.

References

  1. Sharpe, Emma. "Don't Eat the Pictures". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  2. Bergman, Randi (2021-04-26). "Artist Stephanie Temma Hier Adds A Playful Touch To Her Formal Paintings". S Magazine. Retrieved 2026-05-20.
  3. White, Katie (2023-06-02). "Brooklyn Ceramicist Stephanie Temma Hier Crafts Vibrant, Sculptural Works Bursting With Wit, Humor, and Provocation". Artnet News. Retrieved 2026-05-20.
  4. Watlington, Emily (2024-10-17). "For Stephanie Temma Hier, Surrealism Is the Only Sane Response to Our Absurd World". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2026-05-20.
  5. "Stephanie Temma Hier". Bradley Ertaskiran. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  6. "An Interview with Stephanie Hier". Berlin Art Link. 2019-03-13. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  7. "Gabrielle Moser on Stephanie Temma Hier". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  8. "Stephanie Temma Hier". VACANCY. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  9. "Stephanie Temma Hier". Bradley Ertaskiran. Retrieved 2020-11-10.