Diamond Stingily
Life in My Pocket, 2018. Installation view, ICA, Miami
Life in My Pocket, 2018. Installation view, ICA, Miami.
The piece is a collection of video, sculptures, and readymades that are explora-tions of memory as much as they are statements on racial and systemic violence. The gate is a signifier of black neighborhoods drawn from the artist’s childhood experiences; the baseball bat by the door is both a powerful symbol of self-defense and a personal anec-dote. The ICA, Miami, exhibition is accompanied by a video of the artist building a double dutch rope out of discarded telephone chords—a concrete example of necessity creating a reality, which the artist reconstructs in the exhibition space. Stingily highlights otherwise overlooked cultural images illuminating their complexity and, in many cases, asking viewers to discover the significance of these objects as they relate to her history as well as to systems within society.
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Chicago, Illinois 1990
Resides: Brooklyn, New York
Education: Columbia College of Missouri (2013)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Off Kedzie,” Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.
“Wall Sits,” Kunstverein Munich, Germany.
“Death,” Queer Thoughts, New York.
“Doing the Best I Can, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco.
2018 “Life in My Pocket,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.
“For the People of [_________],” Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris.
2017 “Queer Thoughts at FIAC,” Lafayette, Paris.
“Surveillance,” Ramiken Crucible, New York.
2016 “Elephant Memory,” Ramiken Crucible, New York.
“Where Did She Go?,” Holiday Forever, Jackson Hole, Wyoming (with Siera Hyte).
“Kaas,” Queer Thoughts, New York.
2015 “Supply,” Project Row Houses, Houston.
“Forever in Our Hearts,” Egg, Chicago.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Life and Limbs,” Swiss Institute, New York.
“Body Splits,” SALTS, Basel, Switzerland.
“Die Marmory Show,” Deborah Schamoni Galerie, Munich.
“Straying from the Line,” Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin.
“Divine Femme,” Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, New York.
2018 “Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking,” Americas Society, New York.
“Kathy Acker: Who Wants to Be Human All the Time,” Performance Space New York.
“Vom Handeln,” Halle für Kunst, Lüneberg, Germany.
“The Pain of Others,” Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Mane n’ Tail,” The Luminary, St. Louis.
“After Curfew,” Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles.
“2018 Triennial: Songs of Sabotage,” New Museum, New York.
2017 “How It’s Made,” Carl Kostyál, Stockholm.
“Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” New Museum, New York.
“Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit.
“True Lies,” Night Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Protean Vessel(s),” Ellis King, Dublin.
“Group Exhibition 2017,” James Fuentes, New York.
2016 “A Rose Is a Rose Is a Cave,” Motel, Brooklyn.
“Take this Gum and Stick It,” Ellis King, Dublin.
“It Started with a Rose,” 315 Gallery, New York.
“Present Futures: Strategies Towards Emancipation,” Denny Gallery Pop Up, New York.
“Lost Wax,” As It Stands, Los Angeles.
2015 “Denude,” Ramiken Crucible, Los Angeles.
“The End of Violent Crime,” Queer Thoughts, New York.
“Their Little Stickers…,” Chin’s Push Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Where the Awning Flaps,” Eric Hussenot, Paris.
“Small Pillow,” Arcadia Missa, London.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 Diehl, Travis. “For Artist Diamond Stingily, No One Is a Winner,” Frieze (March 13).
2018 Krall, L. Brandon. “Diamond Stingily, Entryways 2018,” Quiet Lunch (December 31).
Degolyer, Lori. “Celebration and Critique: Diamond Stingily Interviewed,” Bomb (October 4).
Speed, Mitch. “Passive Voice: Notes on the Found Object, Now,” Mousse (Summer).
Gavin, Francesca. “The Art of Diamond Stingily: A Celebration of Black Creativity and Resistance,” Good Trouble (June 27).
McGarry, Kevin. “New Museum Triennial, Songs for Sabotage,” Art Agenda (February 22).
Cotter, Holland. “New Museum Triennial Looks Great, But Plays It Safe,” New York Times (February 22).
Wolin, Joseph. “Ten New Museum Artists in 10 Days: Diamond Stingily,” Garage (February 19).
Indrisek, Scott. “The New Museum Triennial Asks: Can Artists Sabotage the Status Quo?,” Artsy (February 12).
Gavin, Francesca. “The World Needs More Artists Like Diamond Stingily,” i-D (January 25).