Chanell Stone (b. 1992, Los Angeles) is an artist living and working between Southern California and San Francisco.
Her practice focuses on challenging insular views of Blackness by expanding on narratives subject to Black erasure.
This avidity has led her to explore the Black body’s connection to the American landscape.
CV - Selected
Education
2024 Masters of Fine Arts: Visual Arts, University of California San Diego (candidate)
2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Photography, California College of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Natura Negra, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology and the Contemporary Landscape, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (forthcoming)
2023 Affective Resistance, University Art Gallery, UCI, Irvine, CA
2023 Obscura, Taller Nodo, Guadalajara, JAL, MX
2022 Between the Self and its True Home, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Sightlines, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2022 Looking Forward: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
2022 Image Gardeners, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2021 Bury Your Feet in the Landscape, Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX
2021 Mom, I am a Rich Man, Kommunale Galerie Rathaus Johannistal, Berlin, DE
2021 Tracking Down Intimacy, Fotografiska, New York, NY
2020 Offline, Casemore Kirkeby Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 The Right to Herself, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2019 Aperture Summer Open: Delirious Cities, Aperture Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Forecast 2019, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2018 Photography Now: Still Life, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Selected Awards/ Grants/ Residencies
2023 Artist-in-Residence, Taller F, Guadalajara, JAL, MX
2022 Artist-in-Residence, Bell Hooks Center, Berea College, Berea, KY
2022 William Male Foundation Artist Grant, William Male Foundation, San Diego, CA
2022 Gold Cube Award, Apple: Hometown Campaign, Art Directors Club, New York, NY
2022 Silver List, Silver Eye Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2021 The New York Times, Year in Review 2021: Photo Award, New York, NY
2021 San Diego Graduate Studies Fellowship, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
2021 YBCA 100 Honoree, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2021 Artist-in-Residence, Black Space Residency, San Francisco
2020 Shortlisted Finalist, Artadia Award, San Francisco, CA
2020 Artist-in-Residence, Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA
2019-2020 Emerging Artist Award, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2018-2019 Purchase Prize Award, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Publications
2021 FOAM Magazine, Issue No. 59, Histories, 2021
2021 British Journal of Photography, Issue: Humanity & Technology, 2021
2021 Field Guide, Pop up Magazine, 2021
2021 Matte Magazine Issue No. 56: Chanell Stone, Matte, 2021
2021 Apogee Journal: Issue 15, Apogee, 2021
2020 CAA Art Journal: Winter 2020
2020 “Now’s the Time”, Art Journal, College Art Association, 2020
2020 “The Body Issue”, Female Photographers Org, Ed. Elisabeth Bondi, Hatje Cantz, 2020
2020 Ark: Artwork Commission, Svane Family Foundation
Selected Public Talks / Panels / Juries
2022 “Catchlight Visual Storytelling Summit,” ICA San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (panel)
2022 “Aperture x Fujifilm: Stories of Tomorrow”, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY (panel)
2022 “Image Gardeners”, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (artist talk)
2022 Emerging Artist Award, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (juror)
2021 “In the Artist Studio: Chanell Stone”, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (artist talk)
2021 “Black Artist Fund in conversation with Michelle Dunn Marsh”, Fotografiska, New York, NY (panel)
2020 Emerging Artist Lecture, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (moderator, panel)
Selected Public / Permanent Collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; KADIST Foundation, San Francisco, CA, Paris, France;
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY; Meyer Library: Artist Book Collection, Oakland, CA
Selected Editorial / Clients
Apple, The New York Times, Pop up Magazine, Juxtapoz Magazine, The California Sunday Magazine, Vogue,
W Magazine, The Wire Magazine, CRWN Magazine