She received her BFA in Photography and the History of Art and Visual Culture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014, and will be receiving her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia in 2016. Stern has exhibited works at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, Invisible­-Exports, Pioneer Works, Northern­Southern, and the Humble Arts Foundation’s 31 Women in Photography at Hasted Kraeutler. Her work has been featured in BOMB, MATTE, Blink, Still, Vice, and Art F City.