Elaine Stocki was born in Winnipeg in 1979. She holds an MFA from Yale University (2009) and has been awarded numerous grants including a Tierney Fellowship and a Canada Arts Council Project Grant. Her work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the Deutsche Guggenheim (Berlin) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. TIME Magazine's Lightbox, Matte Magazine, Night Papers, TBW Books (monograph) and Golden Spike Press, have all featured her photography. The artist has been nominated for both the Grange Prize (2011) and the Sobey Art Award (2012) and was a previous resident of the Mountain School of Arts. Stocki, who is based in Los Angeles, is currently teaching at Fullerton University and is a visiting critic at Yale. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
