Studio News


PUBLICATION

Thanks to Dovetail Magazine for thoughtfully writing about my work! March 29, 2024.


EXHIBITION

My Science For A Better Life redacted collage series are featured in the exhibition In Feast or Famine at the Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA.

Thanks to guest curator Marianne McGrath for the invitation and excitement about my work. Meaningful support is provided by my recent North Carolina Arts Council artist grant.

January 20 - April, 2024 | January 26th Opening Reception Celebration 5-8 pm


ARTIST RESIDENCY

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Amherst, VA

Spring 2024


GRANT

I’ve been awarded a 2024 Artist Support Grant from the North Carolina Art Council. Funds will help support my work in the exhibition In Feast or Famine, opening on January 26, 2024, at the Palo Alto Art Center.


ART FAIR

Big thanks to @nomegallery for showcasing my work @artissimafair alongside Stockholm-based Goldin+Senneby!

Show Dates: November 3-5 Artissima Fair, Turin, Italy, Booth Red 11

NOME presents a dialogue between Goldin+Senneby and Kirsten Stolle about the influence of chemical and pharmaceutical companies over our lives that explores the connection between corporate interests and public health.


EXHIBITION

Art on Paper: The 47th Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

September 2, 2023 - April 6, 2024


INTERVIEW

The Billboard Creative, Artist Interview, April 2023


PUBLICATION

Harper’s Magazine, Monday Gallery, March 27, 2023


PODCAST


MUSEUM ACQUISITION

Tracey Morgan Gallery is thrilled to announce the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art has acquired Monsanto Necklace for its permanent collection. This marks the artist’s first major acquisition by a US Midwest museum.


GROUP EXHIBITION

Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fuller’s Plan to Save The Planet, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, April 14 - August 21, 2023.

The exhibition brings the inventions and designs of R. Buckminster Fuller to Western North Carolina and introduces visitors to Fuller’s strategies for the sustainability of humans and the planet relating to housing, transportation, mathematics, and engineering. 


SOLO EXHBITION

The Grass Isn’t Always Greener, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC

February 24 - April, 8, 2023


MUSEUM ACQUISITION

Tracey Morgan Gallery is thrilled to announce the North Carolina Museum of Art has acquired Chemical Bouquet II for its permanent collection. This marks the artist’s first major acquisition by an East Coast museum. Chemical Bouquet II was featured in the museum’s Fault Lines: Art and The Environment exhibition (2022).


PUBLICATION

America’s Lost Crops Rewrite the History of Farming Sarah Laskow, The Atlantic, October 1, 2022

Original artworks: collage, ink, glitter on paper


PODCAST

Listen to me and curator Katie Hirsch talk about my work and exhibition "Only You Can Prevent A Forest", Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, on the SPEAKING OF podcast from the College of Charleston.

Find our conversation on my website, Spotify, ApplePodcasts, Stitcher, etc.


SOLO EXHIBITION

Thrilled to announce my upcoming solo show Only You Can Prevent A Forest at The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC.

Exhibition essay by Hannah Star Rogers.

August 26, 2022 - December 10, 2022.


GROUP EXHIBITION

Fault Lines: Art and the Environment, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

April 2–July 17, 2022

Fault Lines: Art and the Environment features a multimedia exhibition, together with outdoor sculpture installations in the Museum Park, focused on artwork that explores current environmental issues. Presenting contemporary artists who address themes particularly relevant to the concerns of the current moment, the exhibition includes works by John Akomfrah, Willie Cole, Olafur Eliasson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Susie Ganch, Allison Janae Hamilton, Hugo McCloud, Richard Mosse, Jean Shin, Jennifer Steinkamp, Kirsten Stolle, and Christine and Margaret Wertheim.


GRANT

I’ve been awarded a 2022 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant in support of my solo exhibition Only You Can Prevent A Forest.


PUBLICATION

“Art's Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures”, LEONARDO, Vol. 55

Leonardo is the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the use of contemporary science and technology in the arts and music and the application and influence of the arts and humanities on science and technology.


GRANT

I’ve been awarded a 2022 Artist Support Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council.


GROUP EXHIBITION

Reading Between the Lines, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC.

January 7 - February 19, 2022.

Employing a variety of media, the artists included in this exhibition all utilize either books or text in their work or present imagery whose meaning is in some way obfuscated. While words have the power to incite emotion, illicit humor, demand action, or endear, they often don’t mean the same thing to everyone, even when we share the same language. Cultural references can be missed or misunderstood, or intent mistaken. In this show the viewer is tasked with interpretation, unearthing meanings that may not appear immediately on the surface. How do we “read” an artwork that can quite literally be read?


GROUP EXHIBITION

From These Hills:  Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands, William King Museum of Art, Abingdon, VA.

September 30, 2021 - February 6, 2022


PUBLICATION

Connecting the Dots and Chemical Bouquet II are featured in Chapter 13, “Art-Science Collaborations, Complexities and Challenges”, The Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology, 2021, pp. 229-232. Thank you to Hannah Star Rogers!


PUBLICATION

Animal Pharm, Chemical Bouquet, and Miracle Grow are featured in "The past, present, and future of Art, Science, and Technology Studies", Routledge Handbook of Art, Science and Technology Studies.

Thank you Hannah Star Rogers and Megan K. Halpern!

Routledge is the world's leading academic publisher of humanities, social science, and STEM books.


PANEL DISCUSSION

Artist Panel, No Name is Innocent, Barcelona Biennal of Thought, Barcelona, Spain.

October 17th, 2020
2:00 pm EST/8:00 pm Barcelona on Zoom. 

Panelists: Kirsten Stolle, Valerie Miles, and Carlos Delclós.


ART FAIR

Vienna Contemporary, Vienna, Austria. Courtesy of NOME Gallery. September 24-27, 2020.


GROUP EXHIBITION

Plan B, NOME Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

December 6, 2020 - February 12, 2021.

NOME will be debuting my interactive piece 13 Reasons Why There Are No Great Male Artists.


ARTIST RESIDENCY

Ucross, Clearmont, WY.

August 31 - September 25, 2020.


GROUP EXHIBITION

NOME, A Lexicon, NOME Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

April 30 - July 24, 2020.

NOME, a lexicon is an exhibition in two chapters: a web-based visual essay and an exhibition at the gallery’s Glogauer Str location that looks back at five years of our activities, surveying the building blocks of the distinct language and discourse propagated by our program. NOME was founded in 2015 to support and disseminate the work of artists grappling with the pressing social, political, and cultural issues of our times. Their practices—often driven by conceptual, documentary, and investigative approaches—shed new light on our reality. 

3D tour here.


SOLO EXHIBITION

Pesticide Pop, NOME Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

February 14 - April 11, 2020.

Exhibition catalog here.

Curatorial essay The Creation of Scarcity by Vanina Saracino.

Catalog essay by Carey Gillam, author of the award-winning book  Whitewash: The Story of a Weed KillerCancer and the Corruption of Science 


REVIEW

Review of Pesticide Pop in Berlin Art Link




REVIEW

Review of Pesticide Pop in taz kultur, Berlin


REVIEW

Review of Pesticide Pop in Nationen, Norway


GROUP EXHIBITION

Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures, Gregg Museum of Art & Design and NC State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC. Catalog here.

Dates: October 17, 2019 - March 15, 2020

Exhibition Opening: October 17, 5 - 8 pm

Symposium: Friday, October 18, 8:30 - 5:30. I”ll be part of the “BIOTECHNOLOGY AS CULTURE “panel, moderated by Priscilla Wald. Fellow artists include Joe Davis, Jennifer Willet, Ciara Remond, and Rich Pell


GROUP EXHIBITION

AlieNation, Revolve Project Space, Asheville, NC. Curated by Anna Helgeson.

My Needled and Grand Order of the Invisibles series will be featured.

October 11, 2019 - January 11, 2020
Opening October 11, 6 - 8 pm


ARTIST RESIDENCY

Heading to Vermont! In September I’ll be a grateful resident at Marble House Project, Dorset, VT.


EXHIBITION

Thrilled to have Feed reproduced window-size and installed as part of the Window series/ Terrain Biennial 2019.

Dates: September 6, 2019 - January 6, 2020


Window (re/production|re/presentation) is pleased to announce our participation as a mini-site for Terrain Biennial 2019. A site-specific installation of Kirsten Stolle’s work, Feed, will occupy our storefront space for the duration of the Biennial. Feed was selected as our contribution due to its deft and timely connection with this year’s theme, the topology of our moment.


GROUP EXHIBITION

POSTCENTRAL, NOME Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

June 21 - July 26, 2019


EXHIBITION

Unravel, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

May 18 - June 29, 2019.

Stellar review in Photograph Magazine.


GROUP EXHIBITION

Under Construction: Collage From The Mint Museum, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC

December 1, 2018 - August, 2019.


SOLO EXHIBITION

Selective Memory, Rutledge Gallery, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC

December 10, 2018 - March 8, 2019 ARTIST TALK: January 25th, 5:30 pm


PUBLICATION AND COMMISSION

Commissioned by Topic.com as part of their Federal Project No. 2 series, Our Roots Run Deep examines how chemical companies curate their image and deliberately conceal their past. Using Roy Stryker’s depression-era hole-punched negatives as a compositional tool, the project repurposes historical and contemporary photographs, and employs circle interventions to collapse the distance between past and present.

Project narrative here.


ARTIST RESDIENCY

I'll be spending a month at Blue Mountain Center, a gorgeous artist residency in the Adirondacks.  Stay tuned for updates on new work!


GROUP EXHIBITION

The End is Where We Start From. On Tsunamis, Nuclear Explosions and Other Fairy Tales.   Balzer Projects, Basel, Switzerland

June 6 - July 21, 2018


EXHIBITION

12 x 12, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

February 1 - April 22, 2018


GROUP EXHIBITION

Evidentiary Realism

NOME Gallery, Berlin, Germany                                           

December 1, 2017 - February 17, 2018 

Sadie Barnette, Josh Begley, James Bridle, Ingrid Burrington, Harun
Farocki, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Khaled Hafez, Mark Lombardi, Kirsten Stolle, Thomas Keenan & Eyal Weizman

Press Release
Press Kit in PDF, Artworks in Berlin

Selected PRESS:  Bpigs, Berlin, Germany, Gallerytalk.net, DOMUS, Juliet Magazine, Artslant.com, Arshake, Wall Street International, Purple Diary, Mousse Magazine, CreativeApplications.net, Wired.com


SOLO EXHIBITION

What Goes On Here , Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC                             

December 1, 2017 - February 3, 2018

Installation views Press Release pdf


RADIO FESTIVAL

Plots and Prophecies, Datscha Radio, Germany, August 25-29th

My audio piece Revolutionary Control will be featured on Datscha Radio during their radio festival.  Plots and Prophecies is a 5 day festival celebrating gardening practices, present and future with music, radio art and talks.  From August 25- 29th they will be broadcasting round the clock straight from the garden. 

Revolutionary Control will be featured daily during the "Nightloops" program from 1 am - 9 am. You can listen 24 hours a day on-line datscharadio.de and if in Berlin at selected times to FM 88.4 MHz, or in Potsdam to 90.7 MHz.


SOLO EXHIBITION

By The Ton, Second Street Gallery, 15 Second Street SE. Charlottesville, VA 22902

May 15 - June 17, 2017


PRESS

“Thrilled to have Burnaway feature my solo show DISARM as top 5 Shows in the South to see right now!”

Disarm, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC


SOLO EXHIBITION

Thrilled to have my first solo show in Berlin!  Opening Reception:  February 15, 2017 6-9 pm. Proceed At Your Own RiskNOME Gallery, Berlin, Germany, February 15 - April 8, 2017