Diamond Stingily Explained

Diamond Stingily
Birth Place:Chicago, United States
Parents:Byron Stingily (father)
Family:Byron Stingily Jr. (brother)

Diamond Stingily (born 1990) is an American artist and poet. Stingily's art practice explores aspects of identity, iconography and mythology, and childhood. Stingily lives and works in New York City.

Early life and education

Stingily grew up in Chicago, Illinois. As a child, Stingily spent much of her time at her mother's hair salon in West Chicago.[1] Her father, Byron Stingily, is an R&B and house-music singer and her brother, Byron Stingily Jr., is a professional football player.[2]

Stingily studied creative writing at Columbia College.[3]

Work

Stingily has exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including the Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami), Greene Naftali Gallery, Kunstverein München, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Queer Thoughts, Art Basel Statements, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the New Museum in New York City.[4] [5] [6] Stingily is a published author and holds a podcast-style radio show at Know Wave called The Diamond Stingily Show.[7]

Stingily's earliest project Forever in our Hearts opened at Egg in Chicago in 2014.[8] The project simulated the artist's own death through a funeral arrangement and obituary. The show took place in a storefront display window. Accompanying the display, Stingily wrote an obituary-inspired poem that only existed online and in-print behind the window display. Egg is a project-based space in Chicago founded by artist Puppies Puppies and Forrest Nash (founder of art blog Contemporary Art Daily).[9]

In 2015, Stingily collaborated with artist Martine Syms in Syms' video work Notes on Gestures (2015).[10] Stingily was featured as the central actor in the video which examined body language, reaction GIFs, and the phrase, "Everybody wanna be a black woman but nobody wanna be a black woman."[11] Stingily stayed in New York after their collaboration.

After moving to New York Stingily began creating and showing her Kaas works in group exhibitions such as The End of Violent Crime at Queer Thoughts and Denude at Ramiken Crucible.[12]

'Love, Diamond,' Kaas, and Elephant Memory

Stingily published her first book through Dominica imprint titled, Love, Diamond. The book is a "reprint of the artist's first diary written as an 8-year-old" growing up in Chicago.[13] Stingily has kept most of her journals since she began writing at an early age and was encouraged to write by her grandmother.[14] She has performed readings with fellow artists and writers Justin Allen, Rindon Johnson, Juliana Huxtable, and Andrew Durbin.[15]

Stingily's first solo exhibition, titled Kaas, opened at Queer Thoughts in New York in May 2016.[16] The show featured a number of sculptures made of Kanekalon hair, knockers, barrettes, and beads that referenced both Kaa (the snake character made famous in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book) and Medusa's head of snakes.[17] Later that year, Stingily's second solo exhibition, titled Elephant Memory, opened at Ramiken Crucible in New York.[18] On view were larger and more elaborate Kaas sculptures, used doors with locks, baseball bats, telephone cords, and a video work obstructed by a chain-link fence. The exhibition, "teased out issues of racial violence," in America, specifically Stingily's hometown of Chicago and New York.[19]

In 2017, Artists Space invited Stingily and artist Rindon Johnson to read from recent works alongside artists Justin Allen and Deborah Willis.[20]

Stingily was included in the New Museum's group show Trigger: Gender as a Weapon and a Tool[21] . Stingily created her largest Kaas sculpture-to-date, a hair braid piece that pierced through four floors of the museum.[22] Stingily also showed artwork through Queer Thoughts at FIAC in 2017.[23] Her third solo exhibition, titled Surveillance, opened at Ramiken Crucible in Los Angeles, California in late 2017.[24]

In November 2017, Stingily was selected by Forbes magazine for the prestigious '30 Under 30' in the Arts and Culture section.[25]

Stingily's work was exhibited in the 2018 New Museum Triennial Songs for Sabotage[26] . Her first solo museum exhibition was held at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami in 2018.[27] [28] . Subsequent solo presentations were held at Kunstverein München and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in 2019.[29] [30]

Themes and critical reception

Stingily's work explores various themes of racial identity and femininity, memory and childhood, iconography, surveillance and paranoia as well as freedom. Much of her work is in direct response to her "social and economic background" growing up in West Chicago.

Critics have reviewed her first two exhibitions favorably. Curator Johanna Fateman writes in Artforum that Diamond's work, "reflects on the normalization and replication of brutal scripts and systems using perfect, pervasive materials."[31] California-based curator Hanna Girma notes that "Stingily courageously navigates between consolation and discomfort, personal and shared memory. Her work celebrates youthful perception, black creativity and resilience while simultaneously thrusting the viewer into their current disposition, with its fear of contact, normalized violence and ancestral hardship."[32]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Going Natural: Diamond Stingily on Her Queer Thoughts Show. Greenberger. Alex. June 17, 2016. ARTnews. en-US. 2017-11-09.
  2. News: Meet The Artist Who Identifies with Medusa Amuse. May 11, 2016. Amuse. 2017-11-12. en-US.
  3. Web site: Diamond Stingily – Rema Hort Mann Foundation. www.remahortmannfoundation.org. en-US. 2017-11-09.
  4. News: Diamond Stingily at Ramiken Crucible New York. Fateman. Johanna. artforum.com. 2017-11-09. en-US.
  5. Web site: Going Natural: Diamond Stingily on Her Queer Thoughts, Show. Greenberger. Alex. June 17, 2016. ARTnews. en-US. 2017-11-09.
  6. News: Gender-Fluid Artists Come Out of the Gray Zone. Sheets. Hilarie M.. September 15, 2017. The New York Times. 2017-11-09. en-US. 0362-4331.
  7. Web site: Diamond Stingily. Alt Esc Art Magazine & Curatorial Platform. en-US. 2017-11-09.
  8. Web site: Egg. eggg.co. 2017-11-12.
  9. Web site: Chicago's Queer Thoughts Gallery Heads to New York. Russeth. Andrew. June 30, 2015. ARTnews. en-US. 2017-11-13.
  10. Web site: Going Natural: Diamond Stingily on Her Queer Thoughts Show. Greenberger. Alex. June 17, 2016. ARTnews. en-US. 2017-11-12.
  11. Web site: Notes on Gesture Video Data Bank. www.vdb.org. en. 2017-11-09.
  12. Web site: Queer Thoughts. queerthoughts.com. 2017-11-12.
  13. Web site: DOMINICA. dominicapublishing.com. 2017-11-09.
  14. Web site: Diamond Stingily. Alt Esc Art Magazine & Curatorial Platform. en-US. 2017-11-12.
  15. News: Juliana Huxtable is Helping Art Regain Its Stride artnet News. May 19, 2017. artnet News. 2017-11-12. en-US.
  16. Web site: Queer Thoughts. queerthoughts.com. 2017-11-12.
  17. Web site: Going Natural: Diamond Stingily on Her Queer Thoughts Show. Greenberger. Alex. June 17, 2016. ARTnews. en-US. 2017-11-12.
  18. Web site: - Diamond Stingily 2016. www.ramikencrucible.com. en. 2017-11-12.
  19. Web site: Diamond Stingily: 30 Under 35 Cultured Magazine. www.culturedmag.com. en-US. 2017-11-13.
  20. Web site: Justin Allen, Rin Johnson, Diamond Stingily, Deborah Willis. artistsspace.org. 2017-11-13.
  21. Web site: Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. www.newmuseum.org. en. 2019-03-19.
  22. News: Gender-Fluid Artists Come Out of the Gray Zone. Sheets. Hilarie M.. September 15, 2017. The New York Times. 2017-11-13. en-US. 0362-4331.
  23. News: At 44, a Paris Art Fair Is Gaining Even More Steam. Loos. Ted. October 18, 2017. The New York Times. 2017-11-13. en-US. 0362-4331.
  24. Web site: - 2017 Diamond Stingily. www.ramikencrucible.com. en. 2017-11-13.
  25. News: Diamond Stingily. Forbes. 2017-11-15. en.
  26. Web site: 2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage. www.newmuseum.org. en. 2019-03-19.
  27. News: New York's New Museum Announces Lineup for 2018 Triennial artnet News. November 13, 2017. artnet News. 2017-11-14. en-US.
  28. News: From Karlie Kloss To Cotton Citizen To Beyoncé's Photographer: 30 Under 30 In Art & Style. Adams. Susan. Forbes. 2017-11-15. en.
  29. News: Diamond Stingily: Wall Sits Kunstverein München. September 12 – November 17, 2019. en-US.
  30. News: Diamond Stingily: Doing the Best I Can. January 15 – April 6, 2019. en-US.
  31. News: Diamond Stingily at Ramiken Crucible New York. Fateman. Johanna. artforum.com. 2017-11-13. en-US.
  32. News: KALEIDOSCOPE Diamond Stingily. April 21, 2017. Kaleidoscope.media. 2017-11-13. en-GB.
  33. Web site: Diamond Stingily: Orgasms Happened Here. David Zwirner. en-US. 2024-07-15.
  34. Web site: Diamond Stingily: Wall Sits. Kunstverein München. en-US. 2020-12-10.
  35. Web site: Diamond Stingily: Doing the Best I Can. The Wattis Institute. en-US. 2019-10-17.
  36. Web site: Diamond Stingily: Life In My Pocket. ICA Miami. en-US. 2018-11-12.
  37. Web site: Diamond Stingily. Freedman Fitzpatrick. en-US. 2019-01-14.
  38. Web site: - 2017 Diamond Stingily. www.ramikencrucible.com. en. 2017-11-09.
  39. Web site: - Diamond Stingily 2016. www.ramikencrucible.com. en. 2017-11-09.
  40. Web site: Queer Thoughts. queerthoughts.com. 2017-11-09.
  41. Web site: John Knight, Brandon Ndife, Tom Burr, Diamond Stingily. Greene Naftali Gallery. en. 2023-04-04.
  42. Web site: C^4. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. en. 2022-12-12.
  43. Web site: Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America. New Museum. en. 2021-12-10.
  44. Web site: John Dewey, Who?: New Presentation of the Collection of Contemporary Art. Museum Ludwig. en. 2021-12-10.
  45. Web site: Straying from the Line. Schinkel Pavillon. en. 2019-10-17.
  46. Web site: 2018 Triennial: Songs of Sabotage. New Museum. en. 2019-10-17.
  47. Web site: Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. www.newmuseum.org. en. 2017-11-09.
  48. Web site: where did she go at holiday forever. holidayforever.org. 2017-11-10.
  49. Web site: anthologi. publishing-house.me. 2017-11-10.
  50. News: Round 43: Small Business / Big Change. Project Row Houses. 2017-11-10. en-US.
  51. Web site: - Denude images 2015. www.ramikencrucible.com. en. 2017-11-10.
  52. Web site: Queer Thoughts. queerthoughts.com. 2017-11-10.
  53. Web site: Queer Thoughts. queerthoughts.com. 2017-11-10.
  54. Web site: Queer Thoughts. queerthoughts.com. 2017-11-10.
  55. Web site: Egg. eggg.co. 2017-11-10.

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