Resume

  • Born Newton, MA
  • Lives and works in Asheville, NC

Education

  • 1985-89
  • Framingham State College,
    Framingham, MA
  • 1988
  • Richmond/Kensington College,
    London, England

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2012
  • Genetically Commodified
    Asheville Area Arts Council/The Artery, Asheville, NC
  • 2010
  • Anatomy of a Future Forest
    Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2009
  • silva in posterum
    Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
  • 2007
  • Evolutionary Soup
    Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Arboretum and Exquisite Inspirations
    Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
  • 2006
  • Uncovered: New Works by Kirsten Stolle
    Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
  • 2005
  • Room to Breathe: New Paintings by Kirsten Stolle
    Dolby Chadwick Gallery,San Francisco, CA
  • 2003
  • Ohm and Shorthand: New Monotypes and Paintings
    Tercera Gallery,Palo Alto, CA
  • 2002
  • Kirsten Stolle: New Monotypes from Trillium Press
    Trillium Press,Brisbane, CA
  • New Works: Kirsten Stolle
    Kathryn Markel Fine Arts,NY, NY
  • 2001
  • New Prints by Kirsten Stolle
    Turner Martin,Palo Alto, CA
  • 2000
  • Retro(spective): Monoprints and Monotypes by Kirsten Stolle
    Octavia’s Haze Gallery,San Francisco, CA

Select Group Exhibitions

  • 2011
  • Stolle, Taylor and Whiting
    Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
  • 2010
  • Dollhouse,
    ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2010
  • Paper,
    Julie Nester Art Gallery, Park City, UT
  • Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies,
    Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
  • Secret Drawings,
    Palo Alto Art Center,Palo Alto, CA
  • 2009
  • Macrocosm
    Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
  • Sounding Out
    Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 2008
  • Encaustic Paintings
    Julie Nester Gallery,Park City, UT
  • Seventeenth Biennial Art Auction
    SFMOMA,San Francisco, CA
  • Moving Pictures
    Julie Nester Gallery,Park City, UT
  • Solvent Whisper
    Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Art on the Vine Centennial Auction
    Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
  • 2007
  • The Little Show
    Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
  • Senior Artist Fellowship Group Show
    Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
  • 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition
    Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2006
  • 5th Minnesota National Print Biennial
    University of Minnesota, Katherine E. Nash Gallery
  • 5th Minnesota National Print Biennial
    Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
  • Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape
    Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
  • 2005
  • 17th Anniversary Show
    Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
  • Out of Line
    Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
  • Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction
    Monterey Art Museum, Monterey, CA
  • 2004
  • Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction
    Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
  • Inaugural Exhibition
    Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
  • New Works by Kirsten Stolle and Chris Metz
    Ballard Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • Printmaking & Process
    Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
  • 2003
  • 4th Minnesota National Print Biennial
    University of Minnesota
  • Juror: Siri Engberg, Associate Curator, Walker Art Center,
    Marjorie Devon, Juror, Tamarind Institute
  • 77th Annual International Competition
    The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA,
  • Juror: Mark Pascale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings
    The Art Institute of Chicago
  • 2002
  • Trillium Press: Contemporary Prints
    Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
  • 2001
  • Surfacing: Furniture, Boxes and Monotypes
    Tercera Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
  • 1999
  • Ink & Clay, 25th Anniversary Show
    W. Keith and Janet Kellog Art Gallery, Pomona, CA
  • 1998
  • First Northern Ireland Print Exhibition
    W. Keith and Janet Kellog Art Gallery, Townhouse Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
  • Community of Prints: Laney College and the CSP
    Laney College, Oakland, CA
  • Tradition and Transition in the 90’s
    Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 1997
  • Beyond Boundaries
    Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
  • 1995
  • Biennial Print and Draw Competition & Exhibition
    Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
  • 1994
  • Drawn to Abstraction
    Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
  • Small Works Juried Exhibition
    Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
  • West Coast Works On/Of Paper
    The Ink People, Eureka, CA
  • 1992
  • Stockton National Print/Drawing Exhibition
    The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA

Residencies and Awards

  • 2012
  • Artist Residency Program
    Blue Mountain Center,Blue Mountain Lake, NY
  • 2010
  • Artist Residency Program
    Ucross Foundation,Clearmont, WY
  • 2009
  • Artists’ Fellowship Residency
    Ballinglen Arts Foundation,Ballycastle, Ireland
  • Artist Residency
    Millay Colony for the Arts,NY, NY
  • Artist-in-Residence Program
    Spiro Arts Center,Park City, UT
  • 2008
  • Cultural Equity Individual Artist Grant,
    San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
  • Artist Residency
    Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
  • 2007
  • Senior Artist Residency/Fellowship
    Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
  • Finalist, Artist Residency/Fellowship
    Chateau de La Napoule La Napoule, France
  • 2006
  • Artist Residency
    Anderson CenterRed Wing, MN
  • 2005
  • Artist Residency,
    Blue Mountain CenterBlue Mountain Lake, NY
  • 2004
  • Print and Drawing Council,
    Minneapolis Institute of Arts Purchase Award
  • Applebaum Family Purchase Award
  • Maxine and Stuart Applebaum Award of Excellence
  • 2002
  • Individual Artist Grant,
    Peninsula Community Foundation
  • 2001
  • Invited Artist
    Trillium Press
  • 2000
  • Individual Artist Grant
    Peninsula Community Foundation

Museum Collections

  • San Jose Museum of Art,San Jose, CA
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art,Minneapolis, MN
  • Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA

Commissioned Works

  • Graciela Hotel, Burbank,CA
  • Pillsbury, Winthrop LLP, San Diego, CA
  • Excelsior Peabody Hotel, Little Rock, AR

Select Corporate Collections

  • Northwest Trust Bank, NYC
  • Imperial Bank, Palo Alto, CA
  • M-Power, Inc., San Francisco, CA
  • Royal Park, Yokohama, Japan
  • Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, Redwood City, CA
  • KPMG Peat Marwick, Menlo Park, CA
  • Kimpton Group, San Francisco, CA
  • Mastercard Collection, Dover, DE
  • Hilton Hotels, Atlantic City, NJ and Memphis, TN
  • Prescott Hotel, San Francisco, CA
  • Four Seasons, San Francisco, CA
  • Four Season, Chicago, IL
  • Onset Ventures, Menlo Park, CA
  • Navy GSA, San Francisco, CA
  • Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, Scottsdale, AZ
  • Marriott Desert Ridge, AZ
  • Pfizer, NYC
  • Hyatt Hotels, Chicago, IL
  • AG West, CA
  • Much Chelist, Chicago, IL
  • Adams Street Partners, Chicago, IL
  • Slanted Door Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
  • Don Sebastiani & Sons, Sonoma, CA
  • Friedman & Taitelman, Los Angeles, CA
  • Spear Street Capital, San Francisco, CA
  • Scios, Inc., Fremont, CA
  • Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA
  • Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, San Francisco, CA
  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP, Los Angeles, CA
  • Speak Street Capitol, San Francisco, CA
  • Balboa Bay Club, Newport Beach, CA
  • Wellington Management Company, Boston, MA
  • KPMG Peat Marwick, San Francisco, CA
  • Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
  • Coudert Brothers LLP, San Francisco, CA
  • VeriSign, Inc., Mountainview, CA
  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • Nordstrom, Seattle, WA
  • Barclays Global Investors, San Francisco, CA
  • Miles and Stockbridge, Baltimore, MD
  • Backen Gillam Architects, Sausalito, CA
  • Hotel Palomar, Washington, DC
  • Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE
  • Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, NV
  • Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
  • Shokolaat, Palo Alto, CA
  • Intercontinental Hotel, San Francisco, CA
  • Essex Investment Management Group, Chicago, IL
  • Regional Transportation Authority (RTA). Chicago, IL

Lectures/Presentations

  • 2010
  • Visiting Lecturer,
    The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  • 2006
  • Resident Artist Lecture,
    Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

Bibliography

  • 2012
  • International Drawing Annual (INDA),
    Volume 7, December 2012
  • Slice Magazine, Growing Up,
    Issue 10, April 2012
  • Hurand, David, GMOs Target of New Art
    WCQS, Western North Carolina Public Radio, March 2012
  • Gullow, Ursula, Gross Anatomy: An Artist Imagines Post Monsanto Human,
    Verve Magazine, March 2012, pp 28-29
  • Genetically Modified Dolls,
    The Laurel of Asheville, March 2012, pp 20-21
  • 2011
  • Atlanta Homes Magazine,
    May 2011, pg. 26
  • Fox, Catherine, Stolle’s Work Playful,
    Atlanta Journal and Constitution, April 2011
  • 2010
  • Dorrans Saeks, Diane, Crème Freche,
    San Francisco Magazine, May 2010, p.54
  • Dorrans Saeks, Diane, Out of the Shadows,
    San Francisco Magazine, February 2010, p. 67
  • Feher, Erin, 2010 CH+D Award for Showcase Design: Matthew Leverone,
    California Home and Design, February 2010
  • New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, Pacific Coast Edition, # 85, Juror: Dominic Molon,
    Curator Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  • 2009
  • Donahue, Joe, The Roundtable: Millay Night in Hudson”,
    WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, August 2009
  • Marshall, Greg, She Unlocks Organic Mysteries,
    The Park Record April 25-28, 2009. pp
  • Marshall, Greg, An Acme Lab for Artists,
    The Park Record, April 8-10, 2009, pp C1-C2
  • Fulton, Ben, Visual Art Notes,
    Salt Lake Tribune, April 2009
  • 2008
  • ElevenEleven, Small Press Distribution Inc,
    California College of the Arts, editor Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Issue # 5, June 2008
  • Wichert, Geoff, Color from the Hive, New Encaustic Paintings at Julie Nester Gallery,
    15Bytes, September 2008
  • Cheng, Dewitt, Kirsten Stolle: Evolutionary Soup at Dolby Chadwick Gallery,
    Art. Ltd., March 2008, pp 20-21
  • 2007
  • Daniels, Diana, Assistant Curator, Crocker Art Museum, Kirsten Stolle, Evolutionary Soup,
    Catalog Essay, December 2007
  • Koppman, Debra, Previews,
    Artweek, November 2007, p. 6
  • Gallivan, Joseph, September Shebang Flattens for Fall,
    Portland Tribune, October 2007, p. B2
  • 2006
  • Marshall, Greg, Uncovered,
    The Park Record, July 2006, p. C2
  • LWeekly.com, 24Seven,
    City Weekly, July 2006, p. 29
  • 2005
  • New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press,
    Pacific Coast Edition, Volume 61, 2005
  • “Derailed”, Di Bonaventure Pictures, starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen,
    Spring 2005
  • 2004
  • St. Paul Pioneer Press, Crown Prints,
    January, 2004
  • 2003
  • San Mateo County Times, An Artists Mecca,
    June, 2003
  • 2002
  • Hayden’s Ferry Review, Arizona State University,
    Spring/Summer 2002
  • 1998
  • Hayden’s Ferry Review, Arizona State University,
    Spring/Summer 2002