biography
Jessica Stockholder was born in Seattle in 1959. She lives and works in Chicago.
Stockholder is one of the most influential artists working today in the United States. She works with accumulations of mundane materials (furniture, chairs, fabrics, kitchen tools, plastic boxes, lamps). Using paint and color together with objects from the world, her art transforms the viewerʼs attention to perception, creating circumstance for familiar space and objects to be seen with fresh eyes. The altered relationship between objects, combined and her unusual sense of color are orchestrated within a pictorial framework. The work generates various moods and carries forth an abstract sort of narrative that can be understood as analogous to the flow of sound over time in music. Within this structure, and making use of the illusionistic space generated by the paintingʼs surface, Stockholderʼs work allows for the experience of fantasy and fiction.
Jessica Stockholder was born in Seattle in 1959. She lives and works in Chicago.
Stockholder is one of the most influential artists working today in the United States. She works with accumulations of mundane materials (furniture, chairs, fabrics, kitchen tools, plastic boxes, lamps). Using paint and color together with objects from the world, her art transforms the viewerʼs attention to perception, creating circumstance for familiar space and objects to be seen with fresh eyes. The altered relationship between objects, combined and her unusual sense of color are orchestrated within a pictorial framework. The work generates various moods and carries forth an abstract sort of narrative that can be understood as analogous to the flow of sound over time in music. Within this structure, and making use of the illusionistic space generated by the paintingʼs surface, Stockholderʼs work allows for the experience of fantasy and fiction.
Stockholder’s work has been exhibited in major American and European museums including: Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin (2021); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2019); The Contemporary Austin (2018); Art Basel | Parcours (2018); Fundación Barrié, Vigo (2012); Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole (2012); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield (2011); Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2010); Denver Art Center (2009); Vancouver Art Gallery (2006); GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin (2006); Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2004); Chelsea Art Museum, New York (2003); BAC – Baltic Art Center, Visby (2003); CAPC – Museé d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2003); Kunstverein St.Gallen (2001); Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1995); Fundación “La Caixa”, Barcelona (1995); Kunsthalle Zurich (1992).
gallery exhibitions
Project Room: Jessica Stockholder
may 18 – july 21, 2000
images
Holding hardware, 2021
Steel, paint, rope, hardware, iron weight
87 × 59 × 12,6 cm (sculpture; overall dimensions variable)
Holding hardware, 2021 (detail)
Steel, paint, rope, hardware, iron weight
87 × 59 × 12,6 cm (sculpture; overall dimensions variable)
Corona Virus homework #34: Bruise, 2020
Chiffon, acrylic paint, fabric, Lokta paper
78,7 × 61 cm
Corona Virus homework #40: Juneteenth, 2020
Lokta paper, watercolor paper, brass screen, thread, pencil, pencil crayon, acrylic paint, marker, thread, vinyl, fragment of Nepalese painting, plastic tarp
58,4 × 53,3 cm
Corona Virus homework #38: Flash point, 2020
Three kinds of paper, plastic tarp, thread, acrylic paint
53,3 × 55,9 cm
Corona Virus homework #41: Hallmark Card, 2020
Watercolor paper, embroidery thread, pencil crayon
49,5 × 38,1 cm
Draft [JS606], 2014
Plastic garage floor tiles, copper tubing, foil, wooden pepper mill part, acrylic paint, plastic parts, electric cord, wooden branch, rubber washers, wire, shells, galvanized steel vent part, white metal bracket, orange rope, white rope, zip ties, key chain wires, orange ping pong balls, rubber, rivets. Light fixture: recessed LED ceiling fixture.
116,8 × 91,4 × 91,4 cm
Green Angles [JS598], 2014
Webbing, acrylic paint, styrofoam covered with glued rice paper and acrylic paint, carpet, plastic bits, tree branch, plastic coated green wire, tack, nail and velcro
256,5 × 147,3 × 20,3 cm
5 Plus Orange [JS569], 2013
Brass #5 letter, copper plumbing bulb, wood fan blade, plastic parts, bungee cord, plumbing parts and oil paint
147,3 × 38,1 × 14 cm
Marked, Clamped & Cloud [JS581], 2013
copper flashing, copper tubing, copper clamps, copper head scratcher, hose mount hardware, silk fabric, nylon tulle, gold string, yellow rope, acrylic and oil paint, yellow plastic part, copper wire, copper tacks, screw
182,9 × 80 × 31,8 cm
[JS 529], 2012
Primed masonite, acrylic paint, cloth leaves, plastic parts, ribbon, hardware, fake rock and linoleum
101,6 × 76,2 × 19,1 cm
Untitled, 2006-2011
Wool carpet
80 × 300 cm
Untitled, 2003
Blue glass lamp, blue plastic bin, small gold and glass topped coffee table, plywood, silver lamp, aluminum/tar backed flashing, acrylic paint, fake fur
112 × 117 × 91 cm
[JS 279], 1996
Blue plastic tubs, plastic piggy bank, flowery fabric, oil paint, string, rope, wire, metal brackets, dish scrub, plastic, heating vent
142,2 × 67,3 × 5 cm
public exhibitions
OGR
Torino
Cut a rug a round square
11.2 – 25.7.2021
Photo: Andrea Rossetti, Courtesy OGR Torino
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen
Lokremise
St.Gallen
Città irreale
6.2 – 8.8.2021
Photo: Sebastian Stadler
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum
Vienna
Slip Slidin' Away
28.6 – 5.11.2019
Photo: Iris Ranzinger
Centraal Museum
Utrecht
Jessica Stockholder: Stuff Matters
19.4 – 1.9.2019
© Centraal Museum, Utrecht / Gert Jan van Rooij
Centraal Museum
Utrecht
Jessica Stockholder: Stuff Matters
19.4 – 1.9.2019
© Centraal Museum, Utrecht / Gert Jan van Rooij
Centraal Museum
Utrecht
Jessica Stockholder: Stuff Matters
19.4 – 1.9.2019
© Centraal Museum, Utrecht / Gert Jan van Rooij
Centraal Museum
Utrecht
Jessica Stockholder: Stuff Matters
19.4 – 1.9.2019
© Centraal Museum, Utrecht / Gert Jan van Rooij
Centraal Museum
Utrecht
Jessica Stockholder: Stuff Matters
19.4 – 1.9.2019
© Centraal Museum, Utrecht / Gert Jan van Rooij
The Contemporary Austin
Austin, Texas
Jessica Stockholder: Relational Aesthetics
15.9.2018 – 3.3.2019
Image courtesy: The Contemporary Austin. Photo: Colin Doyle
The Contemporary Austin
Austin, Texas
Jessica Stockholder: Relational Aesthetics
15.9.2018 – 3.3.2019
Image courtesy: The Contemporary Austin. Photo: Colin Doyle
Parcours
Art Basel 2018
Basel
Three Squared on the River Bank
14.6 – 17.6.2018
Parcours
Art Basel 2018
Basel
Three Squared on the River Bank
14.6 – 17.6.2018
Parcours
Art Basel 2018
Basel
Three Squared on the River Bank
14.6 – 17.6.2018
press
publications
Jessica Stockholder: Stuff Matters
Mousse Publishing
Milan
2019
Jessica Stockholder: Revised and Expanded edition
Phaidon
London
2018
Jessica Stockholder: Wide Eyes Smeared Here Dear
Silvana Editoriale
Milan
2012
Grab grassy this moment your I's
Laumeier Sculpture Park
St. Louis, IL
2011
video
Cut a rug a round square curated by Jessica Stockholder
2021
Exhibition video at OGR Torino. Courtesy OGR Torino.
