Born in 1979, Winnipeg, Canada. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
EDUCATION
2009 Masters in Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honors, Photography and Painting, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2003 Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Jamais Vu, Déjà Vu, Cadet Capela, Paris, France
Wild Braid, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
My Time Ghost, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Puffer Halo, presented by Fairfax Dorn Projects, the Living Room, East Hampton, NY
The Absolute Trick, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Caput Mortuum, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY
Elaine Stocki, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
2016
Hoar Frost, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
2014
711, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
The Palms, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
2013
P.A., Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010
Balcony, Katharine Mulherin,Toronto
Balcony, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Trees Never End, Houses Never End, Sky High Farm Exhibition, Hudson Valley, NY
RAW, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Dancing in the Light, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Armory, group fair presentation with Night Gallery, New York, NY
Hot Glue, curated by Night Gallery, NADA East Broadway, New York, NY
2022
Flowers of Time, curated by Yukako Yamashita, Art Collaboration Kyoto, Japan
Feminism and the Legacy of Surrealism, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Unearthed by JC, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2020
Majeure Force, Part Two, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
HU, Real Pain Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Collage Party Group Exhibition, Creative Growth, Oakland, CA
2017
Another Way of Telling: Women Photographers from the Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Opening, Golden Spike Press Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Take One: Contemporary Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
20th Anniversary – A Group Exhibition Celebrating 20 Years, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
(Re)Set, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Candid, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, Canada
PGH Photo Fair, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Exposure Festival, Banff, Canada
2013
Apartment, CART, New York, NY
Artistʼs Choice, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2011
Out of Nowhere, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Grange Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Go West, Neubacher Shor Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2010
Handshakes, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
True Fiction, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
First Look, Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
She Feels It All, Mulherin Pollard Projects, New York, NY
Thick as Thieves, RAW Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
New York Photo Festival 2010, New York, NY
Slow Evening, Robert Goff Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Blind Spot X Initiative, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Unnatural Selection, KMLA Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Blood Drive, Zach Feuer, New York, NY
Yale University Thesis Shows: Eighth Veil, Los Angeles, CA
339 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Capricious Space, Brooklyn, NY
Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
Toronto Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2008
Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
2007
Soft Ground, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2023
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Awardee
2021
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant
2020
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant
2019
The Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography
Canada Arts Council Grant, Concept to Realization grant
Canada Arts Council, Travel Grant
2018
Canada Arts Council Grant, Concept to Realization
LENS: Photography Council, LACMA, Los Angeles
Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg. Screen Printing Residency
Creative Growth, Oakland, CA. Collage Party with Paul Butler.
2014
Manitoba Arts Council Creation Grant
Mountain School Residency, Los Angeles
Winnipeg Arts Council Travel Grant
Manitoba Arts Council Travel Grant
Winnipeg Arts Council Creation Grant
2013
Canada Arts Council Project Grant
Manitoba Arts Council Project Grant
Manitoba Arts Council Travel Grant
2012
Grange Prize Residency, India
Longlist, Sobey Art Award, Canada
Grange Prize, Shortlist, Canada
2010
Philadelphia Museum of Art Photography Portfolio Competition
Deep Bay Residency, Clear Lake, MB
2009
Tierney Fellowship, New York
Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Yale University
2008
Yale University School of Art Scholarship
Manitoba Arts Council Grant
ACADRE Fellowship Grant
Winnipeg Arts Council Travel Grant
Lila Acheson Walker Readerʼs Digest Award
2007
Yale University School of Art Scholarship
ACADRE Fellowship
Lila Acheson Walker Readerʼs Digest Award
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
Scotiabank, Toronto, Canada
PUBLICATIONS
Objectiv Journal, #20, Fall 2019
CENTREFOLD Magazine, TERRITORY, Fall 2019
ELAINE STOCKI, Monograph published by SKIRA, 2019
27 L.A. Photographers: Photography Council at LACMA 2013-2018, LACMA Collator
Press, 2018
Animal Shelter 5, Fall 2017, Semiotext(e), Los Angeles Golden Spike Press, Artistʼs Edition, November 2016
Los Angeles Canadian Art Installation 2015
AIMIA CANADA, Montreal/Toronto Still, Even, Maybe – A Parallel Text for Candid,
Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, September 2014
MATTE Magazine, December 2014
Night Papers, Vol VI, September 2014, Los Angeles
Elaine Stocki: The TruthTeller, (The Palms exhibition essay) Jen Hutton, May 2014
Exposure Festival Catalogue, 2014
TBW Books Subscription Series 3, 2011
BloodDrive Catalogue, Zach Feuer Gallery, 2009
Emergence: Contemporary Photography in Canada, published by Gallery 44 and Ryerson University, 2009
MFA Photography Thesis Book, Yale University, May 2009
Freeway Balconies Catalogue, Deutsche Guggenheim, 2008
SELECTED PRESS
2023
Josh Beckelhimer, Weaving Worlds: The Vivid Imagination of Elaine Stocki, AEQAI, June 1
2022
Will Heinrich, Feminism and the Legacy of Surrealism, The New York Times, February 2
2019
Pluralities, by Stephen Horne, Border Crossings Magazine, Fall Painting Issue
2017
Elaine Stocki, Border Crossings Magazine, March
2014
Elaine Stocki, Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, by Vince Aletti, June 20
Elaine Stocki, The Palms, Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC, PARIS/LA, by Rachel Morrison, June 16
Elaine Stocki: The Palms at Thomas Erben Gallery Musee Magazine, by Amanda Everich, June 9
Elise Rasmussen On Elaine Stocki Uncompromising Tang, by Elise Rasmussen, April 19
The Age of Eccentricity, Robert Enright, February
2013
Exposure Festival Catalogue
Best of Fall 2013: The Six Best Art Exhibitions in Toronto this Autumn, TORONTO LIFE MAGAZINE, September 30
10 must-see art shows in Toronto this fall, Aubrey Jax, September 26
2012
Best of 2012, Guest Editors: The Spinto Bandʼs Nick Krill on Artists on the Loose.
The Indecisive Moment: The Photography of Elaine Stocki, by Daniel Baird, Border Crossings Magazine Vol 30 Number 4
2011
Elaine Stocki,: TIME Lightbox, November 2
Winnipeg Photographer up for International Prize, by Sandy Thacker, CBC News Spotlight On: Elaine Stocki, AIMIA/AGO Photography Prize, October 7
2010
A New Model of Perception, by Wayne Baerwaldt, Blackflash Magazine, Winter
2009
Daniel Gordon Interviews Elaine Stocki, The Exposure Project, August 2
Art In America, Weekly Bulletin, Let it Bleed Alexandra Peers, July 17
Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult by Paul Graham, text written for Yale MFA
Photography 2009 book and reproduced on American Suburb X
2008
Anti-Portraiture: Elaine Stocki, Border Crossings Magazine, Issue 105
2007
Photography Now: Western Canadian Artists to Watch by Wes Lafortune, Galleries West Magazine, Vol 6 Number 1
VISITING CRITIC / VISITING ARTIST
2023
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2019
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2015
Yale University, New Haven, CT
2013
Parsons, The New School, NY International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, NY
Ryerson University, Toronto Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
Mentor at MAWA, Winnipeg, Canada
2011
California College of Arts, Oakland, CA
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Drew University, Madison, NJ
2010
Alberta College of Art and Design Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut