1. Jessica Stockholder's work belongs to numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Art Institute of Chicago, British Museum, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
18 Facts About Jessica Stockholder
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Jessica Stockholder has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Anonymous Was A Woman and National Endowment for the Arts, among others.
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Jessica Stockholder was born in Seattle in 1959 and raised in Vancouver, Canada.
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Jessica Stockholder's parents, Fred and Kay Stockholder, were English professors at the University of British Columbia.
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In 1983, Jessica Stockholder enrolled at Yale University where she studied with Judy Pfaff, Jake Berthot, Mel Bochner and Ursula von Rydingsvard, among others, and earned an MFA in 1985.
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Jessica Stockholder's subsequent Kissing the Wall sculptures continued this approach with stand-alone objects, engaging intervening spaces between wall and artwork with mirrors and attached lamps that cast colored light on walls and structures.
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Jessica Stockholder attracted recognition in the late 1980s through exhibitions organized by PS1, Mercer Union, The Mattress Factory, and soon after, American Fine Arts, Le Consortium, the Whitney Museum, and Renaissance Society, among others.
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Jessica Stockholder achieves this through the juxtaposition of incompatible items, the use of color to assert unlikely connections, and a spatial approach that refuses any privileged vantage point.
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Jessica Stockholder created major installations in the 1990s at the Dia Foundation, Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum, and Power Plant, among others.
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Jessica Stockholder's "assists" are modular sculptures that can only stand upright when strapped to a large, commonplace auxiliary object, such as a chair or piano.
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In 2019, Centraal Museum mounted "Stuff Matters," a large exhibition that Jessica Stockholder co-curated with Laurie Cluitmans, in which she incorporated sixty items from the museum's collection, in a way that was analogous to her use of objects in her sculpture.
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Jessica Stockholder has curated several shows of her own work and others.
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From 1999 to 2011, Jessica Stockholder was director and professor of graduate studies in sculpture at Yale University.
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Jessica Stockholder was faculty chair of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago from 2011 to 2018, and retired from teaching in 2024.
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Jessica Stockholder has received a Guggenheim Fellowship ; awards from the Lehmbruck Museum in Germany, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Anonymous Was A Woman, and American Academy of Arts and Letters; and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts and Canada Council.
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Jessica Stockholder was elected to the National Academy of Design in 2011, and awarded honorary doctorate degrees by Emily Carr College of Art and Columbia College Chicago, in 2010 and 2013, respectively.
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Jessica Stockholder's work belongs to the public collections of American museums including MoMA, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MOCA LA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, National Gallery of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum.
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Jessica Stockholder's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.