Diamond Stingily's spare, emotive vignettes hinge on the commemorative power of objects. A visual artist and writer whose practice spans sculpture, video, and installation as well as text, Stingily is drawn to readymade materials as a spur to both introspection and collective experience. The items she favors carry distinct class markers and a firm sense of place, often rooted in local architectures that delimit spaces of safety as well as exclusion. Attuned to the texture of personal memory (and the politics that underlie it), her formal restraint changes the tenor of what is otherwise familiar or benign, recasting her selected objects into works of art both consequential and evocative.

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Diamond Stingily (b. 1990, Chicago) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include 52 Walker, New York (2024); Greene Naftali, New York (2023–24); Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2023, 2019); Cabinet, London (2021); Kunstverein München (2019); CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2019); Queer Thoughts, New York (2019, 2016); ICA Miami (2018); and Ramiken Crucible, New York (2017, 2016). Notable group exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2023); Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2020); Swiss Institute, New York (2019); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2018); Bergen Kunsthall (2018); and significant presentations at the New Museum, New York, including Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America (2021), Songs for Sabotage, the New Museum Triennial (2018), and Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (2017).

Stingily’s work is in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; KADIST, San Francisco and Paris; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Rubell Museum, Miami and Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.