Photo credit: Cathy Carver.
Photo credit: Cathy Carver.
Born in Seattle, Washington, in 1959, Jessica Stockholder was brought up in Vancouver, Canada. After graduating from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, in 1982, she studied sculpture at Yale University between 1983 and 1985 before moving to New York City. She has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe with works that range from drawings and collages to autonomous sculptures and monumental installations.