JESSICA STOCKHOLDER
ARCHIVE

The Visual Resources Center (VRC) is excited to announce the digital archive of Jessica Stockholder, now available to the UChicago community and beyond on the VRC’s digital collections platform, LUNA. The Jessica Stockholder Archive is the first LUNA collection dedicated to a near-comprehensive overview of the work of a single artist. Nearly 4,000 images represent works spanning the breadth of Stockholder’s career across the intersections of painting, sculpture and installation, largely utilizing found “stuff,” as Stockholder describes it. Department of Visual Art student Rachel Hardy AB’23 and Art History student Sabel Diefendorf AB’24 contributed to all aspects of developing this collection, from researching and cataloging the works to digitizing the archival materials. The VRC is grateful to UChicago Careers in Media, Arts, and Design and Jessica Stockholder for their support of this project.

Stockholder joined the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts in the 1990s as a faculty member, and this collection comes at her retirement from teaching in Winter 2023. This collection contains representations of works from Stockholder's personal archive of her digital images, 35 mm slides, and photo negatives. In addition to Stockholder’s personal archive, the collection additionally includes images from her gallery, Kavi Gupta, and digitized images from publications of her work.

Header image:
Nit Picking Trumpets of Iced Blue Vagaries | 1998
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France






flower bed|2004

Palais Rameau, Lille, France

cobblestones, five tables, two benches, one quartz light, one street lamp, wooden bed structure, aluminium, linoleum circle, enamel oil based paint, artist oil paint, lights and electrical cords, cobblestone platform





We invite you to explore this digital archive of Jessica Stockholder’s personal documentation, offering unprecedented access to her celebration of "stuff" as art-making material and its application to regardful site-specific work. Combined with Stockholder’s personal website, the Jessica Stockholder Archive contributes a rich digital repository of Stockholder’s artistic career. This website was completed in conjunction with the “Jessica Stockholder–For Events'' exhibition.  

The categories in this archive are meant to be illustrative and do not distill Stockholder’s work to prescriptive divisions. As fluid as Stockholder’s use of mediums is, these categories are open to interpretation and transcend strict classification.

Reference images in the Jessica Stockholder Archive are available for UChicago students and instructors to download upon login with a CNetID for research and teaching. Stockholder’s 2011 Open Practice Committee talk can also be accessed on LUNA with CNetID credentials.

This website was curated  and designed by Luh Natalia Granquist MAPH‘24, Curatorial Fellow of the Visual Resources Center. 

Please note: While Stockholder's physical archive transitions to its new home/location, it is currently inaccessible.