Diamond Stingily
Shebam, Pow, Blop, Wizz

Diamond Stingily (b. 1990, Chicago; lives and works in New York) explores how identity and lived experience become embedded in the objects and spaces that surround us. Working with familiar materials and fragments of the built environment, she transforms ordinary objects into evocative sculptures, installations, photographs, and texts that reveal the emotional and social histories they carry. Whether found or meticulously constructed, these works invite viewers to reconsider the ways everyday things shape both personal and collective memory.

Stingily's practice draws on domestic interiors, urban environments, and architectural details—not as fixed symbols, but as spaces where memory, belonging, aspiration, and social structures intersect. Through a restrained yet deeply resonant visual language, she uncovers the layers of meaning embedded within ordinary materials, allowing them to speak simultaneously to intimate experience and shared histories.

Shebam, Pow, Blop, Wizz, Stingily's first solo museum exhibition in Europe, presented at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, brings together significant existing works alongside new commissions developed in dialogue with regional art schools. The exhibition foregrounds her ability to transform the familiar into poetic and incisive reflections on memory, place, and the subtle ways objects shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us.

Recent solo exhibitions include Cabinet (London), Peter Lund (Oslo), 52 Walker and Greene Naftali (New York), Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi (Berlin), Kunstverein München, and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco). Her work has also been presented at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the New Museum (New York), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), and the Institute of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), and is held in major public collections including The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Ludwig (Cologne), the Rubell Museum, KADIST, the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, and the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.