Lily Stockman

Lily Stockman was born in Providence, RI, in 1982. She lives and works in Los Angeles and Yucca Valley, CA. 


Drawing from nature and its grammar of symmetry, camouflage, and repetition, Stockman plumbs her familiar landscapes (Los Angeles, the Mojave Desert, a remote island in Maine) for her distinctive palette of glowing, tertiary colours– crackling orange, red earth, Holbein brown, and Fra Angelico blue. In a review of Stockman’s most recent exhibition, The New Yorker art critic Johanna Fateman describes the artist’s biomorphic compositions as “both diagrammatic and vaporous, a combination that calls to mind the spiritualist abstractions of the American modernist Agnes Pelton. Although they’re more lyrical, Stockman’s nested shapes also have the meticulous magic of Josef Albers’s squares.” Stockman’s paintings emerge from a wide range of references, from the prosaic — seed catalogues, topographic maps, birdsong, skating on a frozen pond –– to the archaic — Shaker gift drawings, mediaeval hocketing, portable Renaissance altarpieces, poetry metre. 


After concentrating on painting at Harvard, where she also studied art history under Yve-Alain Bois, Stockman continued her studies in two important apprenticeships which shaped her lifelong pursuit of abstraction: Buddhist thangka painting at the Union of Mongolian Artists in Ulaanbaatar, and later, traditional Mughal miniature painting in Jaipur. From there she went on to pursue her MFA at New York University. 


Stockman’s work is in the permanent collections of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, LA MOCA, Palm Springs Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, and Orange County Museum of Art, where she was recently included in the California Biennial 2022: Pacific Gold.

Lily Stockman portrait credit Laure Joliet C5i7 Xt

Biography

Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2024
F, forthcoming, Maison La Roche, Paris
2023
UK, The Waves, MASSIMODECARLO, London
2022
USA, The Tilting Chair, Charles Moffett, New York
UK, A Green Place, Almine Rech, London
2020
USA, Seed, Stone, Mirror, Match, Charles Moffett, New York
2018
USA, Loquats, Charles Moffett, New York
2016
USA, Pollinator, Gavlak, Los Angeles
2014
USA, Women, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles
2013
USA, ULTRAVIOLET: 1913-2013, 80WSE Gallery, New York
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2023
I, The Glover Group: A Los Angeles Story, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano
GR, Nostos, Gagosian, Athens
2022
F, What You See Is What You Get, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
USA, Shrubs, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
USA, California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa
I, What You See Is What You Get, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano
USA, 13 Women, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa
2021
USA, Better Weather: Lois Dodd, Kieran Brennan Hinton, Lily Stockman, TOA Presents, Minneapolis
USA, Summer Show, Almine Rech, Aspen
USA, Inaugural Launch of Platform, Platform / David Zwirner, New York
2020
USA, Conversational Spirits, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
UK, Dwelling is the Light Curated by Katy Hessel, Timothy Taylor, London
J, LA Views, Maki Gallery, Tokyo
2019
USA, By Women, For Tomorrow’s Women Curated by Agnes Gund and Oprah Winfrey, Sotheby’s, New York
USA, Selected Contemporary Painting, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
2018
USA, All Over the Moon: Laurel Sparks, Lily Stockman, Richard Tinkler Curated by Jack Pierson, Cheim & Read, New York
USA, My Kid Can Do That Curated by Kyle DeWoody, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
2017
USA, Tomorrow's Man Curated by Jack Pierson, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2015
USA, E.1027, Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York
USA, Plainly to Propound, Gavlak, Los Angeles
2014
USA, Blessed Oblivion, Gavlak, Palm Beach
USA, The Morning After, Tyler Wood, San Francisco
UK, Departure, Harvard Monday Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge
2013
USA, The Road, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles
USA, MFA Thesis Show, 80WSE Gallery, New York
USA, 1st Year MFA Show, The Commons Gallery, NYU, New York
2011
IND, SUPER/POWER, Threshold Gallery, New Delhi

Bibliography

Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2022
Urist, Jacoba, Cultured, October 11
Vankin, Deborah, Los Angeles Times, August 31
Kazanjian, Dodie, Vogue, March 12
Buhe, Elizabeth, Brooklyn Rail, December 14
Fateman, Johanna, The New Yorker, November 14
2021
Pogrebin, Robin, New York Times, May 19
2020
Buhe, Elizabeth, Brooklyn Rail, October 6
Escalante, Shanti, Interview Magazine, October 16
Tauer, Kirsten, WWD, September 8
Jordan, Eliza, Whitewall Magazine, September 4
Leung, Gabrielle, Hypebeast, August 31
Waddoups, Ryan, Surface Magazine, August 28
2018
Shields, Ben, The Paris Review, August 8
Saltz, Jerry, New York Magazine, August 6
Fateman, Johanna, The New Yorker, July 26
Frieze, May 18
Cascone, Sarah, ArtNet News, May 1
Armstrong, Annie, ARTnews, April 12
2017
Nelson, Steffie, W Magazine, February
2016
Mizota, Sharon, Los Angeles Times, April 5
Miranda, Carolina, Los Angeles Times, March 11
2015
Felsenthal, Julia, Vogue, July 29

Public collections

Country
Location
United States of America
Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
ICA Miami, Florida
Orange County Museum of Art
Palm Springs Art Museum, California
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
MOCA, Los Angeles

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