
Diamond Stingily (b. 1990, Chicago) lives and works in New York. Her work is currently on view in an exhibition of thepermanent collection at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie IsabellaBortolozzi, Berlin (2023, 2019); Cabinet, London (2021); Kunstverein München (2019); CCA Wattis Institute forContemporary Arts, San Francisco (2019); Queer Thoughts, New York (2019, 2016); Institute of Contemporary Art,Miami (2018); and Ramiken Crucible, New York (2017, 2016).
Stingily’s work is in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; KADIST, San Francisco and Paris;Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; The Museum of Modern Art, New York;Rubell Museum, Miami and Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
Diamond Stingily’s spare, emotive vignettes hinge on the commemorative power of objects. A visual artist and writer whose practice spans sculpture, video, and installation as well as text, Stingily is drawn to readymade materials as a spur to both introspection and collective experience. The items she favors carry distinct class markers and a firm sense of place, often rooted in local architectures that delimit spaces of safety as well as exclusion. Attuned to the texture of personal memory (and the politics that underlie it), her formal restraint changes the tenor of what is otherwise familiar or benign, recasting her selected objects into works of art both consequential and evocative.


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