Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder was born in Seattle in 1959 and spent most of her childhood in Vancouver, British Columbia. She received her BFA from the University of Victoria in 1982 and earned her MFA from Yale University in 1985. Stockholder received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in sculpture in 1988 and a John Solomon Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Visual Art in 1996. She lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut and is currently Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at Yale.

Stockholder began exhibiting in the early 1980s and has shown widely at institutions around the world. She has been the focus of solo exhibitions at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York, P.S.t Contemporary Art Center, New York, and the Power Plant, Toronto, among many others. She was included in the Whitney Biennial in New York in 1991, the Venice Biennale in 1997, and the Site Santa Fe Biennial in New Mexico in 2001. Her work is in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York.