Kate Stone

EDUCATION
2013 MFA, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY
2009 BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

ARTWORK AND THEME
Brooklyn-based Kate Stone constructs familiar, yet uncanny environments on the threshold between interior and exterior, the real and the supernatural, architecture and the body. A home, in her view, is never entirely comfortable. From overgrown carpets that consume their inhabitants to animated dollhouses that stride on stalactite legs, her work explores the domestic grotesque—a place of psychological contradictions and transformations.

“I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia in an old farmhouse. My friends all thought it was haunted, and no one ever wanted to sleep over. I was always really disappointed—not that they didn’t want to sleep over, but that it wasn’t actually haunted. I liked that they thought it was spooky, and I always wished that I could experience something supernatural. The house did have some strange quirks, though. There were attics that we couldn’t really access, boarded-up doors that didn’t lead anywhere, and a well in the basement. There were even ruins in the backyard. Even though it was my home, and it was familiar to me, I was able to explore, discover things, and create mysteries in my head about this space. I think that’s where my interest in architecture and the supernatural comes from. In a way, my work is imagining or creating the supernatural that I never got to experience.
My interest in the body and the grotesque probably comes from my family. My grandfather was a doctor, and there was an old black and white photo of him in med school hanging in a hallway; he was operating on a cadaver. So, I grew up with a photo of a dead body in the house. We also had slices of lungs affected by cigarette smoke framed on the wall. Stuff like that was just around, and I never really thought of it as strange.” (Kate Stone, sculpturemagazine.art, 2024)

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Hollow Body, OyG Projects, Barely Fair, Chicago, IL
2024 Doomscroll, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Soft Tectonics, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025, TBA, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA (upcoming)
2025 TBA, Turley Gallery Lightwell, Hudson, NY (upcoming)
2024 Living Rooms, Union Hall, Denver, CO

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Pairidaeza, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Everything Ends Eventually, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Summer Reading, Shelter Gallery, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS
2016 How We End.

RESIDENCIES
2023 Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2022 Lauttasaari Manor Residency, Kone Foundation, Helsinki, Finland
2018 Mudhouse Residency, Crete, Greece

AWARDS
2022 Kone Foundation Grant
2019 FST StudioProjects Fund
2017 The Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences

CURATORIAL
2019 Spooky Action: An Evening of Experimental Animation, Gloria’s Project Space, Queens, NY

ARTIST TALKS/TEACHING
2022 Guest Critic, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY
2021 Artist Talk, Artists For Humanity, Boston, MA
2021 Kate Stone and Austin Ballard in conversation with Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY