Background

Jessica Stoller was born in 1981 in Michigan, United States.

Education

Jessica Stoller spent her childhood in the suburbs of Detroit. Her grandmother was a seamstress. She developed her interest in ceramics while studying at high school.

Stoller received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with honors at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan in 2004. It was followed by a Master of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills two years later.

Career

Jessica Stoller emerged to the art scene in the middle of the 2010s. Since then, her imaginative sculptural compositions that embody the features of different cultures and historical periods have been shown around the United States, including such art venues as Zuckerman Museum of Art, Greenwich House Pottery, and Wave Hill, New York City. She has also had solo shows at P.P.O.W gallery, Hionas Gallery, both in New York City, and the Clay Studio, Philadelphia.

Stoller has also been an artist in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design's Artist Studios Program, the Kohler Arts and Industry Program, and the Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park, Japan. The sculptor has tried her hand in academics serving at different times as a visiting artist at Portland State University, the University of Delaware, the New York Academy of Art, and the University of Tennessee.

Nowadays, Jessica Stoller lives and works in New York City where her art is represented by P.P.O.W gallery.

Achievements

• Jessica Stoller is an accomplished artist whose at once fantastic and elegant sculptures draw the attention of both critics and art amateurs.
  
  Stoller has been a recipient of the fellowship from Pollock-Krasner, Peter S. Reed Foundations, and the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation. In 2013, the sculptor was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award.
  
  Stoller’s artworks have been acquired by Kohler Company collection, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and by multiple private collections.

Works

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  • Breastplate

  • Fringe

  • Harpy

  • Untitled (Mirror)

  • Daphne

  • Judith

  • Untitled (Slip)

  • Untitled (dance macabre)

  • Untitled (Slipper)

  • Untitled (lick)

  • Selfless/Selflesh

  • Untitled (Pull)

  • Still Life

  • Untitled (Tassel)

  • Untitled (Epergne)

  • Untitled (Weave)

  • Untitled (Spread)

  • Untitled (balance)

  • Untitled (frosted bust)

  • Untitled (Venus)

  • Untitled (Willendorf)

Views

Quotations: "I am attracted to rich surface textures and I often contrast elements that are both seductive and repulsive/idealized and abject. I like to employ a strange sense of trompe l’oeil in my sculptural work, creating tension in what appears to be real and what is imagined."

Interests

• Writers

  Carmen Maria Machado

• Artists

  Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Alina Szapocznikow

Connections

Jessica Stoller is married to an artist and designer Saiman Chow.

husband:

Saiman Chow

References

• Jessica Stoller Official Website