Chanell Stone (b. Los Angeles) is an artist living and working in Oakland, California. Her practice examines the phenomenology of the female body as both a geographic site and physical material embedded within the American landscape. Grounded in the interdisciplinary frameworks of Black feminist thought and image-based media, Stone theorizes how memory and place are inscribed onto and throughout the body. Her inquiries take form through photography, poetry and material-based exploration, wherein she engages with lesser-known impressions of Black American presence and belonging.
Stone earned her MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, and her BFA in Photography from the California College of the Arts. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, FOAM and Aperture, as well as a solo presentation at the San Diego Museum of Art that opened in March 2026 and group exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2024); Esker Foundation, Alberta (2024); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2022); Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco (2022); Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara (2021); and Fotografiska New York (2020). Her work is held in multiple public and private collections including, the Carnegie Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Diego Museum of Art, KADIST Foundation and Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Chanell Stone is as an Adjunct Professor of Photography in the Art Practice at Stanford University.
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Current / Upcoming Exhibitions
2026 SECA Award Exhibition (title: TBD), San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (Forthcoming) (solo)
2026 Undulation of a Rupture, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (solo)
Selected Recent Exhibitions
2025 A Petal’s Edge, Casemore Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2025 Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology and the Contemporary Landscape, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ curated by Emilia Mickevicius
2024 Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology and the Contemporary Landscape, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA curated by Dan Leers
2024 Undulation of a Rupture, Main Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (solo)
2024 Constellations, Esker Foundation, Alberta, CA by Su-Ying Lee
2024 NextGen 2024, Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA by Jordan Karney Chaim
2023 Affective Resistance, University Art Gallery, Irvine, CA curated by Liz Glynn
2023 Oscura, Taller Nodo, Guadalajara, MX, curated by Taller F (solo)
2022 Sightlines, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA curated by Shana Lopes and Erin O’Toole
2022 Looking Forward: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA curated by Allie Haeusslein
2022 Image Gardeners, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA curated by Sara Wessen Chang
2021 Bury Your Feet in the Landscape, Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX curated by Lorena Peña Brito and KADIST
2021 Mom, I am a Rich Man, Galerie im Rathaus Johannisthal, Berlin, DE curated by Milena Mercer and Femxphotographers.org
News
2026 Award — SECA Award Finalist, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curated by Delphine Sims and Alison Guh
2025 Press — New York Times: “In Development: Chanell Stone”, by Tenzin Tsagong (print only)
2025 Award — Daylight Photo Award Juror Pick, Daylight Books, Hillsborough, NC selected by Asha Iman Veal
2025 Panel — Widening the Lens Artist Panel with Victoria Sambunaris and Melissa Catanese, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2024 Award — Honorable Mention, Hariban Award by Benrido, Kyoto, JP
2024 Residency — Artist-in-Residence, Salmon Creek, Mendicino, CA
2023 Residency — Artist-in-Residence, Taller F, Guadalajara, MX