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ARTIST STATEMENT:

I will inhale smoke and exhale butterflies

– from a dream

As an materials based artist, I work in fiber, painting, pen and ink, hand and machine sewing and mixed media constructions/installations that bear the weight of environmental activism and animal advocacy. I have also used photography to document the work of environmentalists. My current interest is focused on the concepts of the bardo experience occurring in the animal world, what animism means and what that means to the humans that cause death either directly or indirectly.

In 2025, I learned of two Superfund sites where industrial waste and heavy metals had been dumped into the creek I played in when I was a child- it made all the artwork I had done to this point become sharp as the needle going into my arm for my infusions. These poisoned landscapes are not abstract concerns to me; they are part of my body’s story. I now carry multiple autoimmune diseases, and while direct causality is difficult to prove, I can’t ignore the parallels between my prolonged exposure to this environment in my childhood as I swam daily in the creek and today’s ravages to my bodily systems.

This knowledge has transformed the way I approach material, form, and subject. The invisible toxicity embedded in the landscape mirrors the silent battles happening inside the body—unseen, ongoing, and difficult to articulate. These sites feel like physical manifestations of the bardo—a liminal zone, neither alive nor fully dead. They haunt the work: in my stitched fiber layers, dripped inks, and fraying linens that mimic both ecological decay and internal erosion.

My art is an act of reckoning and remembrance—of making visible what has been buried or dismissed, whether in the land or in ourselves.

Born in New York in 1971, I now live and work in a studio located on a spit of sand on the coast of Massachusetts.


CV

American, Interdisciplinary Artist, Born in New York, 1971

Grants
2025: Mass Cultural Council Individual Artist’s Grant
2023: The Puffin Foundation’s Environmental Artistic Activism Grant
Finalist for the Gottlieb Foundation Grant
2022: The Rauschenberg Emergency Grant
The Awesome Foundation Grant
2020: Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Relief Grant
2018: Artist’s Resource Trust Endowment by the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation

Residencies
2024: Arts and Science Program, Peaked Hill Trust, Provincetown, MA
Great Boston Harbor Islands Cleanup Field Work Residency, Center for Coastal Studies
2023: Twenty Summers, Hawthorne Barn, Provincetown, MA

Permanent Public Collections
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

Artist Talks and Panels
2024: University of Rhode Island
2023: Public Talk for installation, Twenty Summers, Hawthorne Barn, Provincetown, MA
2022: Center for Coastal Studies/Twenty Summers, Provincetown, MA
2019: Virtual Studio Talk hosted by On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA
2018: Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2017: Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

Teaching History
Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Museum School Method Flux with Gin Stone

Prizes
2017: Juror’s choice prize Attleboro Art Museum

Selected Bibliography/Print Media
2022: The Provincetown Independent
2020: Vellum Art Magazine
2019: Mass Cultural Council: Studio Views: Gin Stone
Provincetown Banner
Portland Press Herald
Art New England
2018: ArtScope
New Cambridge Observer
2017: Blouin Art Info
2016: ArtScope
2010: Art of the Cape and Islands
2003/4: Provincetown Arts Magazine

Curatorial Work

2019: Prismatic Redux, Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2018: Recreating Nature, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA
Creature Comforts, Cambridge Art Association (Large scale installation and curation)

Selected Exhibitions and Installations
2025:

  • Project Project, farm projects, Wellfleet, MA
  • Rare Vision, The Art Gallery, Boston, MA
  • Peaked Hill Trust’s Arts and Sciences Program ‘23/’24 Cohort Exhibit, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
  • Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse,CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL

2024:

The 74th A-One, Silvermine Arts Center and Galleries, New Canaan, CT

2023:

  • Solo Exhibit Past/Present, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA
  • Solo Public Installation and Talk Birth of Commodity, Hawthorne Barn, Provincetown, MA in conjunction with Twenty Summers

2022:

  • Museum Installation Commission Man, Materials and Our Lasting Legacy in the Sea: installation, Heritage Museums and Gardens, Sandwich, MA
  • Solo Exhibit Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA
  • 6200 Thoughts, Ivy Brown Gallery, NYC
  • By Her Hand, Eckert Fine Art, MASSMoCA, N. Adams, MA

2021:

  • Solo Exhibit They Say I’m Difficult, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2020:

  • Art Fair IMMERSIVE 2, SCOPE, Booth: Vellum Art Mag, Miami Beach, FL
  • The Locals, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA
  • Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

2019:

  • Two-Person Exhibition Being, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA
  • Fleeting, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
  • Two-Person Exhibition Prismatic Redux, Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA
  • Natural Habitat: A Study of Man and Nature, On Center Gallery, Provincetown
  • The Sartorial Self, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
  • Man-Made: A State of Nature Invitational Group Show, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME

2018:

  • The Locals, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA
  • Breaking the Rules, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA (catalogue)
  • Creature Comforts, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (curation/installation)
  • Thrive, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA (catalogue)

2017:

  • UPRISE/Angry Women, THE UNTITLED SPACE, NYC
  • The Horse Show, ArtProv Gallery, Providence, RI
  • BIOPHILIA, Sargent Gallery, Aquinnah, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
  • Various Flora & Fauna, View Arts Center, Old Forge
  • Line, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
  • Reclaimed, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
  • 16th National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (catalogue)
  • It’s the Little Things, ArtProv Gallery, Providence, RI
  • Monsters and Misfits, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

2016:

  • The Harvest, Van Vessem Gallery, Tiverton, RI
  • The Deep Sea Has its Stars —Trident Gallery/Ocean Alliance Art Installation, Gloucester, MA
  • Embroidered Truths & Woven Tales, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
  • The New England Collective VII, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
  • Inaugural National Juried Exhibition: Breaking the Mold, Cape Cod Museum of Art
  • 15th National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

2015:

  • The Big Show 9, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

2012-‘14: Practice development shift from painting to multi-disciplinary/mix-media

2010-‘12: Hiatus while building live/work studio- Harwich, MA

2010:

  • Solo Exhibit, The Frying Pan Gallery, Wellfleet, MA

2009:

  • HIV Law Project’s 20th Anniversary Benefit, Helen Mills Theater, NYC

2009-‘15: Represented by The Frying Pan Gallery, Wellfleet, MA

2008:

  • Solo Exhibit, The Jacob Sears Memorial Library, Quivet Neck, MA
  • The Temptation of Abstraction, Bennett Street Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2008-‘09: Represented by The Bennett Street Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2005:

  • ArtSeen, AIDS Research Alliance, Los Angeles, CA
  • Visual Ground: Artists Paint the Landscapes They See, Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery, Long Island, NY

2004:

  • Group Show, Søren Christensen, New Orleans, LA
  • Group Show, The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2004-2008: Represented by The Lowe Gallery; Atlanta, GA and Santa Monica, CA 2003:

  • Two-Person Exhibition, Left Bank Gallery, Orleans, MA

2002-2006: Represented by The Left Bank Gallery, Orleans, MA

SHORT FORM BIO
Born in New York in 1971, Gin Stone is a materials-based artist whose work explores environmental decline, animal advocacy, and impermanence. Working with salvaged linen, reclaimed textiles, and found materials, she creates mandala-like installations and mixed-media constructions that reflect ecological fragility and acts of repair. Stone’s work has been exhibited nationally and is held in the permanent collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Her practice has been supported by the Mass Cultural Council, the Puffin Foundation, and residencies including Twenty Summers and Peaked Hill Trust, integrating fieldwork, sustainability, and spiritual inquiry into material form.

FULL BIOGRAPHY
Born in New York in 1971, I grew up immersed in landscapes that would later shape my work. Only recently did I learn that the creek where I swam daily as a child was a Superfund site, contaminated with industrial waste and heavy metals. This revelation in 2025 gave new urgency to my practice: I live with multiple autoimmune diseases, and while direct causality is difficult to prove, the parallels between early environmental exposure and my body’s chronic illness are impossible to ignore. These experiences now inform both the materials I choose and the stories I tell through my work.

As an interdisciplinary artist, I work in fiber, painting, pen and ink, hand and machine sewing, and mixed-media installations. My practice carries the weight of environmental activism and animal advocacy while exploring animism and the liminal states described in Tibetan Buddhism as the bardo. This framework allows me to investigate ecological loss, the transitional spaces between life and death, and the impermanence that connects us all.

Materials and method are central to my process. I work with salvaged linen and repurposed cloth, layering ink drawings, stitched fragments, and mixed-media constructions into mandala-like installations. These hand-sewn pieces fray and shift over time, reflecting the impermanence of both ecological and bodily systems. The slow process of stitching mirrors acts of mourning and repair, while reclaimed materials align the work with sustainability. Animals, landscapes, and traces of human activity coexist within these compositions, creating spaces for reflection on loss, resilience, and transformation.

Over my career, my work has been exhibited widely across the United States, including New York City, the Hamptons, Atlanta, Provincetown, and Boston. These opportunities have allowed me to engage diverse audiences and situate my practice within national conversations about ecology, art, and spirituality. In 2019, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum acquired my work for its permanent collection, affirming the resonance of my practice within an institutional context.

I have received numerous grants and awards, including the Mass Cultural Council Individual Artist’s Grant (2025), the Puffin Foundation Environmental Artistic Activism Grant (2023), the Artist’s Resource Trust Endowment (2018), and the Rauschenberg Emergency Grant (2022), among others. Residencies have been vital: the Arts and Science Program at Peaked Hill Trust (2024) and the Great Boston Harbor Islands Cleanup residency integrated ecological fieldwork with studio practice, while the Twenty Summers residency (2023) provided space for experimentation and public engagement.

Public talks and teaching have complemented my studio practice. I have presented work at the University of Rhode Island, the Center for Coastal Studies, and multiple galleries in Boston and Cambridge, and taught at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s school, leading a course called Method Flux that encouraged students to create new methods of working through experimentation. Curatorial projects, such as Prismatic Redux (2019) and Recreating Nature (2018), have expanded my practice into dialogue with other artists and audiences, emphasizing the ecological and material questions that drive my work.

Stone’s interview with Helen Adams, Textile Curator:
Evolution, ecology and environmental activism are beautifully conveyed through American artist Gin Stone’s art. Critiquing “humanity’s approach to the degradation and disrespect of the natural world” she employs a range of found materials in her pieces that are rich in colour, texture and meaning.

Studio interview for the Provincetown Art Association and Museum