Lily Stockman (b. 1982, Providence, Rhode Island) is a painter based in Los Angeles and Yucca Valley, California. Her paintings reflect a wide range of references and inspirations, from natural phenomena—vernal pools, mineral licks, birdsong, black ice—to historical endeavors of the spirit—Shaker gift drawings, medieval hocketing, portable Renaissance altarpieces, poetry meter. Her essays have appeared in numerous publications, most recently in Joan Mitchell: 1979–1985 (David Zwirner, 2024). Stockman’s work is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; and the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California, where she was included in the 2022 California Biennial, Pacific Gold. Recent exhibitions explored Virginia Woolf’s modern novel The Waves at Massimo De Carlo, London (2023); birds, plants, and weather in Emily Wilson’s English translation of Homer’s Odyssey at Gagosian, Athens (2023); and early modernist architecture at Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris (2024). Her first solo museum exhibition will open in March 2025 at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.

“Stockman's compositions are both diagrammatic and vaporous, a combination that calls to mind the spiritualist abstractions of the American modernist Agnes Pelton. Although they’re more lyrical, Stockman’s nested shapes also have the meticulous magic of Josef Albers’s squares.”

—Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker