Born in 1982, Providence, RI
lives and works in Los Angeles and Yucca Valley, CA
Education
2013
MFA Studio Art, New York University, New York, NY
2006
BA Visual & Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Selected Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2022
TBD, Charles Moffett, New York (forthcoming, October)
Gunther Förg & Lily Stockman, Massimo De Carlo, Paris, France
A Green Place, Almine Rech, London, UK
2020
Seed, Stone, Mirror, Match, Charles Moffett, New York
2018
Loquats, Charles Moffett, New York
2016
Pollinator, Gavlak, Los Angeles
2014
Women, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles
2013
ULTRAVIOLET: 1913-2013, 80WSE Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
What You See Is What You Get, Massimo De Carlo, Milan
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art (forthcoming, October)
Shrubs, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021
Better Weather: Lois Dodd, Kieran Brennan Hinton, Lily Stockman, TOA Presents, Minneapolis
Summer Show, Almine Rech, Aspen
Platform, Platform / David Zwirner, New York
2020
LA Views, Maki Gallery, Tokyo
Conversational Spirits, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
Dwelling is the Light, curated by Katy Hessel, Timothy Taylor, London
2019
By Women, For Tomorrow’s Women, curated by Agnes Gund and Oprah Winfrey, Sotheby’s, New York
Selected Contemporary Painting, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
2018
All Over the Moon: Laurel Sparks, Lily Stockman, Richard Tinkler, curated by Jack Pierson, Cheim & Read, New York
My Kid Can Do That, curated by Kyle DeWoody, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
2017
Tomorrow's Man, curated by Jack Pierson, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2016
Art For Hillary, Gagosian Gallery, New York
2015
E.1027, Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York
Plainly to Propound, Gavlak, Los Angeles
2014
Blessed Oblivion, Gavlak, Palm Beach
The Morning After, Tyler Wood, San Francisco
Departure, Harvard Monday Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge
2013
The Road, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles
MFA Thesis Show, 80WSE Gallery, New York
1st Year MFA Show, The Commons Gallery, NYU, New York
2011
SUPER/POWER, Threshold Gallery, New Delhi, India
Permanent Collections
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (2020)
Teaching
2013
Teaching Assistant, VES, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2011-2013
Adjunct Professor of Painting, NYU Steinhardt, New York
Grants and Awards
2013
Derek Bok Teaching Award, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Samuel Eshborn Award, New York University, New York
2012
Martin Wong Foundation Scholarship, New York
2011
US-India Educational Foundation Artist's Grant, New Delhi, India
Winterline Centre for the Arts Exhibition Grant, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India
2006
National Geographic Expeditions Council Youth Grant to Mongolia
Harvard College, Summa Cum Laude thesis in painting, Cambridge, MA
Residencies and Apprentiships
2011
Kashi Art Foundation, Fort Cochin, Kerala, India
Apprenticeship in painting, Ajay Sharma Studio, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
2004
Apprenticeship in thangka painting, Union of Mongolian Artists, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Lily Stockman
Lily Stockman is a Los Angeles and Mojave Desert-based painter whose work is informed by the shapes and constructions of the natural world. Borrowing structure from poetry meter, Buddhist thangka paintings (which she studied in Mongolia) and the gardens and hay fields of her rural childhood as the organizing principles for her compositions, she floods and layers these perimeters with her distinctive palette of luminous, vibrant colour.
Stockman paints flat on sawhorses, using techniques and colour palettes inspired by an eclectic mix of 15th-century frescoes, 18th-century Rajput miniature paintings, and the compositions of 19th-century Shaker 'gift drawings.' Combining these influences with her own intuitive approach, she creates a highly personal language of abstraction and colour. Stockman's work is held in the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
Selected artworks
Gallery exhibitions
Selected press
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Dodie Kazanjian, 'Meet the Women of Frogtown, An Artist Community Like No Other', VOGUE, March 12, 2022
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Robin Pogrebin, 'Zwirner May Disrupt Art Gallery Model With Click-to-Buy Business', The New York Times, May 20, 2021.pdf
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Shanti Escalante, 'Lily Stockman Brings Us Back to the Gallery', Interview Magazine, October 16, 2020..pdf
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Ryan Waddoups, 'Lily Stockman in Full Bloom', SURFACE, August 28, 2020.pdf
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Kristen Tauer, 'Lily Stockman Exhibits New Work in ‘Seed, Stone, Mirror, Match’ at Charles Moffett Gallery', Woman’s Wear Daily, September, 8, 2020.pdf