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

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
public exhibitions
publications
video
Cut a rug a round square curated by Jessica Stockholder
2021
Exhibition video at OGR Torino. Courtesy OGR Torino.
