Viewing Room: Works by Chanell Stone presents a survey of the artist’s practice, bringing together newer works alongside earlier photographs to form a multi-year exploration of Blackness within the American landscape. Through interwoven bodies of work, Stone traces connections between land, body, and memory, creating a dialogue that foregrounds histories long subdued and erased from view. Flowing from the confluence of ancestral presence in the Mississippi Delta to the layered terrains of urban North America, her images entwine the personal with the historical. The landscape emerges as both witness and participant transformed into a site of rupture, return, and remembrance.

Chanell Stone is an artist living and working in Oakland, California. Her work explores Blackness as both subject and medium, weaving together personal histories with broader narratives of the diaspora. Through self-portraiture, film, and poetry, she examines intersectional states of being and the body’s connection to the natural world. Drawing inspiration from familial memory, her practice has led her to work extensively in the Mississippi Delta, retracing echoes of migration and reimagining ancestral presence within the American landscape.

Stone earned her BFA in Photography from the California College of the Arts in 2019 and her MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California San Diego in 2024. She has exhibited in institutions across the United States and internationally. Her solo exhibition Natura Negra was presented at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco from 2019 to 2020. More recently, Stone’s work has been displayed at the Carnegie Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Pier 24 Photography, Esker Foundation in Alberta, Canada, Museo Cabanas in Guadalajara and Fotografiska New York. Stone’s practice has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, FOAM and Aperture.com.