About Chanell Stone

Chanell Stone was born in Los Angeles and currently works out of Southern California and Oakland. In her work, Stone integrates the Black body into the American landscape to confront Black erasure in America’s history and contemporary society. Her work demonstrates how crucial it is to acknowledge the significance of Black slaves and Black Americans in the nation’s foundation.

Stone’s first solo exhibition, Natura Negra, was held at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, in 2019-2020. Her work has also appeared in various group exhibitions throughout the United States and can be found in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Kadist Foundation in San Francisco and Paris.

Stone’s work has been published in the British Journal of Photography (2021), and the CAA Art Journal (2020), among other publications. She has received multiple awards and grants including the Black Studies Project Research Grant (2022), The New York Times, Year in Review: Photo Award (2021), and was a 100 Honoree at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2021). Stone holds a BFA in Photography from the California College of the Arts (2019) and an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego (2024).