sTo Len
b. 1978, Danville, Virginia
Lives and Works in Queens, NY
Email stoishere@gmail.com
Website www.stoishere.com
Education 2020 Master of Fine Arts, Nomad MFA, University of Hartford, CT
2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Renewal, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
2017 Nước Là Sự Sống (Water is Life), Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Runoff, Parlor Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mapping Mespeatches, Ace Hotel Gallery, NY
2016 Nước Chảy Đá Mòn (Water Flows, Rock Erodes), Manzi, Vietnam
Tsunaminagashi, No Foundation, Toronto, Canada
The End Papers, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Asshats for Shitheads, Booklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Forming, FLA Gallery, Gainesville, Florida
2011 My Slow Called Life, Mulherin-Pollard, NY, NY
Bend of the World, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
2009 This Black Hole Is Sucking, Hanna Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Joy of Life, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 No Place But Home, Art Gallery of University of West Florida, Pensacola, FLA
Confluence, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
2019 Black Hole/Atomic City, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM
If The Wind Blows, Elizabeth Fine Arts, NY, NY
2018 Tracing Obsolescence, Apex Art, NY, NY
Krossing Over, Metaxu Gallery, May 2018, Toulon, France
2017 Works on Water, 3LD Art & Technology Center, NY, NY
2016 New Radicles, Brilliant Champions, Brooklyn, NY
Artists Are Like Water, Look Up Gallery, Guerneville, CA
2015 Last Daze, Space Gallery, Portland, MN
2012 Limitless Range, Space Gallery, Portland, MN
Permanent Collection, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NY, NY
Small, 19, Karen Contemporary, Queensland, Australia
Gleaming, Synchronicity Space, Los Angeles, CA
2011 We Are The Whirl with Jee Young Sim, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY
Can You See the Rainbow? Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
After Walkman Die, Harcoza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
UnREAL, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
2010 Lucky Punch, MOHS Exhibit Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
DRAW, Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Temple of Booom, Okay Mountain, Austin, Texas
2009 Spirit Assembly, Waiting Room, Tokyo, Japan
Please Be Welcome, Fuse Gallery, NY, NY
Residencies and Awards
Carrizozo A.I.R., Carrizozo, NM
Artist in Residence, AlexRenew Wastewater Treatment Facility, Alexandria,VA
Field R/D, Fresh Kills Park, Staten Island, NY
Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council Art Grant, Providence, RI
Works On Water Residency, Governor’s Island, NY
Ora Lerman Charitable Trust, Soaring Gardens, Laceyville, PA
Open Studio Residency, Manzi, Hanoi, Vietnam
Time Synch Residency, Clocktower, NY, NY
Community grant, Brooklyn Art Council, NY
Collections
West Collection, Oaks, PA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
San Diego State University
University of Connecticut
George Mason University
Art Institute of Chicago
Pennsylvania State University
University of Pittsburgh
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Denison University, Granville, OH
Amherst College
Chapin Library of Rare Books, Williams College, MA
University of Michigan Special Collections
Wesleyan University, Olin Library, CT
Selected Performances
2019 The Listeners with Ernesto Pujol, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, NY
2018 Dao Xuan Festival, Hoa Binh, Vietnam
Radio Soul as part of What Happens After by Mary Mattingly at BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
Tracing Obsolescence, Site-specific performance at Newtown Creek, NY
Krossing Over Festival, French Institute, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Selected Curatorial Projects
2015 Last Daze, Group Exhibition, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine
Pattern Chaos, Group Exhibition, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Maya Hayuk, Light Heavy, Cinders Gallery, NY, NY
2013 Dirty Fingers, Group Exhibition, In:Surgo, Berlin, Germany
2010 Know New York, Group Exhibition, Cinders Gallery, NY
Brian Chippendale, Fruiting Bodies, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Monica Canilao, We Are Dust, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Ric Ocasek, Teahead Scraps, Cinders Gallery, NY
Temple of Booom, Group Exhibition, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX
2009 Spirit Assembly, Group Exhibition, Waiting Room, Tokyo, Japan
Le Dernier Cri, Vomir Des Yeux, Cinders Gallery, NY
2008 Spacing Out, Group Exhibition, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
Tod Seelie, Slowdancing to Slayer, Cinders Gallery, NY
Human Hair, Neil Burke and Sam McPheeters, Cinders Gallery, NY
2007 Paper Swords, Third Drawer Down, Victoria, Australia
Selected Bibliography
On Water As Polluted Body, Artists and Climate Change, Susan Hoffman Fishman, 2020 What’s the Frequency Sto Len?, The Art Newspaper, 2018 Sto Len Has Been Making Beautiful Prints With Extremely Polluted River Gunk, Interview, Huffington Post, Michael Lee Nirenberg, 2017
Art With the Water From Saigon’s Polluted Canals, Interview, Michael Tatarski, Saigoneer, 2017
Magic in the Murk, Ace Hotel Blog, Interview, 2017
Interview, Aimee Lusty, Picnic Magazine #11, 2016
The World is an Instrument, Interview, Fabiola Büchele, And Of Other Things Magazine, 2015
Grime of Passion, Daniel Furfaro, Brooklyn Paper, 2014
Saturn Dogs : Noise and Sushi Dinner in Berlin, Al Burian, Vice Magazine, 2013 Sto’s Words, Interview, Vessel Magazine, 2012
My Slow Called Life review, Roberta Smith, NY Times, 2011
The Lookout, Art In America, December 8, 2011
Harold’s Sketchbook, Temple of Bloom, 2010
Museum of Modern Art, In the Making, Educator Journal, Calder Zwicky, 2010 Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof’s Art Blog, Spacing Out at Space 1026, 2008 Crooked Smiles, Artslant, John Daquino, 2008 There Were Ten Tigers, Aqua Fair, 2008
Interview, Kate Strassman, White Hot Magazine, 2007
Family Values, William Pym, Art Forum, 2006
Add the Fireflies and It’s a Summer Idyll, NY Times, Holland Cotter, 2005
Cinders Gallery, co-founder, curator, 2004 - present, Brooklyn, NY
An artist-run gallery and now a project-based Arts Non-Profit 5013c organization
Works on Water Collective - Active member of Water artist and activist collective