Lily Stockman

Lily Stockman (b. 1982, Providence, Rhode Island) is a painter based in Los Angeles and Yucca Valley, California. 


Her paintings reflect a wide range of ref-refences and inspirations, from natural phenomena—vernal pools, mineral licks, birdsong, black ice—to historical endeavours of the spirit—Shaker gift drawings, medieval hocketing, portable Renaissance altarpieces, poetry meter. Her essays have appeared in numerous publications, most recently in Joan Mitchell: 1979–1985 (David Zwirner, 2024). Stockman’s work is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; and the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California, where she was included in the 2022 California Biennial, Pacific Gold. Recent exhibitions explored Virginia Woolf ’s modern novel The Waves at Massimo De Carlo, London (2023); birds, plants, and weather in Emily Wilson’s English translation of Homer’s Odyssey at Gagosian, Athens (2023); and early modernist architecture at Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris (2024).

Lily Stockman portrait credit Laure Joliet C5i7 Xt

Biography

Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2025
I, Lily Stockman, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps, Roma
2024
F, Minotaur - Lily Stockman à la Maison La Roche, Maison La Roche, Paris
USA, Philip Glass: Etudes project, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles
2023
UK, The Waves, MASSIMODECARLO, London
GR, Nostos, Gagosian, Athens
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
2025
UK, Los Angeles, Give Me a Miracle: Benefit Show for Ruby Neri, MASSIMODECARLO, London
2023
I, The Glover Group: A Los Angeles Story, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano
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
Harrelson, Sarah, Cultured Magazine, May 12, 2023
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
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts

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