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.