“I will inhale smoke and exhale butterflies” – from a dream
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I am an interdisciplinary artist who works in installation with accompanying specialized lighting and sound, painting, pen and ink on objects and sewn surfaces. The work explores varied mythologies, anthropology, geology , and ethology (the study of animal behavior).
In 2025, I discovered that two Superfund sites border the creek I swam in daily as a child in New York. Heavy metals had been flowing into the waterway there for years. The revelation sharpened everything I had made up to that point, the way a needle entering my arm for an infusion brings sudden, clarifying focus. These poisoned landscapes are not abstract concerns. They are part of my body’s story. I now carry multiple autoimmune diseases. Direct causality is difficult to prove, but the parallels between my prolonged childhood exposure and my current health cannot be ignored.
I do extensive research on the animal and environmental subject, along with collaborations with scientists, that weave the narratives in my work. My work is deeply invested in my questions around consciousness informed by Buddhist ideas of Bardo and my own animist beliefs. Animals bounding through our backyards or floating through the world of the after-life occupy a space on found hunting blind tarps, bait buckets, gas pumps and reclaimed canvas.
SHORT FORM BIO
Born in New York in 1971, Gin Stone is an interdisciplinary artist exploring environmental decline, animal advocacy, and the impermanence of life. Working with salvaged linen, reclaimed textiles, and found materials, she creates installations involving projection and sound, mixed-media constructions and pen and ink drawing on odd objects that reflect ecological fragility and acts of repair. Stone’s work has been exhibited in New York City, Santa Monica, Atlanta, Boston and Provincetown 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 historic/mythical inquiry into material form.
FULL BIOGRAPHY
Born in New York in 1971, Gin Stone grew up immersed in landscapes that would later shape her work. Those experiences now inform both the materials she chooses and the stories she tells through her work.
Over her career, her work has been exhibited widely across the United States, including New York City, Santa Monica, Atlanta, Boston and Provincetown . These opportunities have allowed her to engage diverse audiences and situate her practice within national conversations about ecology, art, and spirituality. In 2019, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum acquired her work for its permanent collection, affirming the resonance of her practice within an institutional context.
Gin has 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 her studio practice. She has 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 her practice into dialogue with other artists and audiences, emphasizing the ecological and scientific questions that drive her 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