Kirsten Stolle is a visual artist working in collage, drawing and mixed media. Her research-based practice is grounded in the investigation of corporate propaganda, environmental politics and biotechnology.
Kirsten was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1967, lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for 19 years, and currently lives in Western North Carolina. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, (San Jose, CA), Crocker Art Museum, (Sacramento, CA), and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, (Minneapolis, MN).
Solo exhibitions include NOME Gallery (Berlin), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC), Second Street Gallery (SC), Turchin Center for the Visual Arts/Appalachian State University (NC), Dolby Chadwick Gallery (CA), Roy G Biv Gallery (OH) and Kathryn Markel Fine Arts (NYC). Group exhibition highlights include the San Jose Museum of Art (CA), Power Plant Gallery/Duke University (NC), William King Museum (VA), Monterey Museum of Art (CA), Crocker Art Museum (CA), Hunterdon Museum of Art (NJ), Tweed Museum of Art (MN), Riverside Art Museum (CA), Triton Museum of Art (CA), University of North Carolina Asheville (NC), Truman State University (MO), Torpedo Factory (VA), Roos Arts (NY), Fridman Gallery (NYC), Lesley Heller Workspace (NYC) and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (LA).
Her work has been published in Made In Mind Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Creators Project, Widewalls, Spolia Literary Magazine, Vhcle Magazine, DIALOGIST, Slice Magazine, New American Paintings, Ignatian Literary Magazine, ElevenEleven, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Manifest International Drawing Annual.
She is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Dave Bown Project Award, as well as grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Artists’ Fellowship Inc., Puffin Foundation, Change Inc., and the Creative Capacity Fund. She has been awarded residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Willapa Bay AiR, Oregon College of Arts & Crafts, Spiro Arts Center, Anderson Center, and Ballinglen Arts Foundation.
Stolle received a BA in Visual Arts from Framingham State College, and completed studies at Richmond College (London, England) and Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, MA).
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