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Pander was educated at the Academie Vredeman de Vries in Leeuwarden (1981-1982) and Academie Minerva in the city of Groningen. At Minerva he was taught by Matthijs Röling and Jouke Wouda, among others.
Pander makes figurative paintings with a loose touch. He is primarily a portrait painter, who makes portraits of animals and people,[2] including Cardinal Simonis (2008), Matthijs Röling (2010) and King Willem-Alexander (2016) and a number of self-portraits. Pander is considered one of the Northern realists.[3]
He exhibits regularly, and has had solo exhibitions in places including the 't Coopmanshûs in Franeker (1992), the Drents Museum (2008) in Assen and the Pier Pander Museum (2015) in Leeuwarden.[4] In 1997 he received the Hielke de Vries Prize awarded by Galerie Wiek XX; the jury was "struck by Pander's contemporary use of figuration and his urge to experiment".