KIRK STOLLER (1960 - 2020), Kirk Stoller was born and raised in Hillsboro, Or. He attended Portland state University where he received a BA in French Language before going on to earn an MFA from UC Berkeley some years later. Kirk started out as a painter, before shifting his practice to focus on sculpture during his time in Berkeley. This leap into 3-dimensional space was one he never looked back from, and in the following years his work bloomed into a body of aesthetically elegant abstract sculptures produced from otherwise humble materials. These works were featured in numerous exhibitions across the US and around the world, most notably in conjunction with Romer Young Gallery, in San Francisco, CA, who continues to Represent the artist's estate.

As an artist, Kirk led a bi-coastal lifestyle, living and working in San Francisco CA and Brooklyn NY. This allowed him to create and maintain a broad network of relationships through which he would make lasting friendships and engage in artistic dialog. The connectivity aspect of his involvement with the arts became so important to him that in 2013 he created an exhibition space in his apartment in San Francisco. Titled C2C, Kirk used this space to further exercise his passion for bringing people together and extended exhibition opportunities to many emerging artists.

Of course, Kirk’s greatest gift to the world of art was his own beautiful body of work. Through a personal abstract vernacular, his practice explored the strengths and vulnerabilities of the spirit as it navigates the human condition and faces the inherent challenges and triumphs along the way. With a sharp eye and a masterful touch, Kirk composed his raw materials, often comprised of construction scraps and other detritus, into stunning expressions of his emotions and ideas. These works capture and transmit to Kirk’s viewers his heartbreak, his joy, his fears, and his faith in the beauty of life and the value of human connection.

Kirk Stoller's work has been exhibited at Romer Young Gallery in San Francisco, CA, the Mary Ryan Gallery and Leslie Heller Gallery, New York, Storefront Bushwick Gallery, GRIDSPACE and in Brooklyn, The Property, Los Angeles as well as Galerie Axel Obiger in Berlin. Stoller was an Edward Albee Foundation Fellow. He was also awarded the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Residency, Yaddo Residency and the Golden Foundation Residency, NY, the MacDowell Art Colony Residency, NH, Willapa Bay Artist Residency, WA. Stoller was a studio resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts. He also founded and ran C2C Project Space in San Francisco and was a co-director at TRANSMITTER/ in Brooklyn.