Stephanie Hightower has been represented by Cheryl McGinnis Gallery since 1996.   Her works on paper and panel were most recently seen summer 2011at Steinmeister Studio in Berlin. Other venues include Monroe College in Rochester, Center for Contemporary Art - Chicago, The Strathmore Hall Arts Center - Maryland, University of Texas at El Paso, Emory University and the McIntosh Gallery - Atlanta.  In New York, Hightower’s work was selected for the “Artists in the Marketplace” at the Bronx Museum and the “Decade of the Marketplace”.  Selected for one-person exhibitions at The Cooper Union on two occasions, Hightower presented M.P.H. Series, and They Make Excellent Subjects, works on paper, consisting of transfer prints, collage and painting.

Hightower is the recipient of research, lecture and residency fellowships with City University of New York, hosted by Technische Universitat of Berlin, the Vermont Studio Center, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, and the Bronx Council for the Arts.  She serves as director and faculty member for the School of Art Outreach Program at The Cooper Union, as Assistant Professor of Art for John Jay College, and lectured for Fordham University, and the University of Connecticut.   Hightower teaches Painting, Drawing, Visual Thinking, and Contemporary Art Issues.  She has delivered lectures to the Learning Through the Arts faculty for the Guggenheim Museum, curated exhibits for numerous national arts competitions and graduate student exhibitions, and was commissioned as a muralist for Brooklyn Public Schools through the Rotunda Gallery. 

Awarded the Potawatomi Tribal Scholarship for graduate study, she holds degrees from Pratt Institute and the University of Dallas.