Kirsten Stolle

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Asheville, NC

Year at Millay: 2009

Awards/Honors: Fellow, Visual Arts, Bogliasco Center, Bogliasco, Italy (2025); Artist-in-Residence, Xenia Creative Retreat, Hampshire, United Kingdom (2025); Artist-in-Residence, Celia and Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY (2025); Artist-in-Residence, Foundation House, Greenwich, CT (2024); Artist-in-Residence, VCCA Residency, Amherst, VA (2024); Grant Recipient, NC Arts Council Grant, North Carolina Arts Council, Raleigh, NC (2024, 2022); Grant Recipient, The Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ (2022, 2013); Artist-in-Residence, Turkey Land Cove Foundation, Edgartown, MA (2021); Artist-in-Residence, Visual Arts, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY (2020, 2010); Artist-in-Residence, Marble House Project, Dorset, VT (2019); Artist-In-Residence, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY (2018, 2012, 2008, 2005); Artist-in-Residence, Willapa Bay AIR, Oysterville, WA (2016); Grant Recipient, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY (2015); Grant Recipient, Change Inc. Grant, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY (2010); Artist-in-Residence, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland (2009); Artist-in-Residence, Spiro Art Center, Park City, UT (2009); Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing, MN (2006).

Website: https://www.kirstenstolle.com/

Kirsten Stolle is a multidisciplinary artist working in collage, text-based images, and installation. Her research-driven practice, at the intersection of art, science, and culture, examines the global influence of agrichemical companies on our food system. Delving into propaganda and greenwashing, Stolle appropriates corporate advertising strategies and aesthetics, highlighting the contradiction between public image and facts. Stolle’s recent projects have looked into agribusiness disinformation, chemical company marketing campaigns, and the historical ties between Bayer-Monsanto and chemical warfare.