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Lily Stockman (born 1982) is an American artist and writer who lives and works in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, CA.

Life and work
Lily Stockman studied Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. After graduation, she spent five months in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia completing an apprenticeship in Buddhist thangka painting. While in Mongolia, she was awarded a National Geographic Society youth grant to document nomadic culture.

In 2011 Stockman moved to Jaipur, India to study pigment and Mughal miniature painting. Her time in India culminated with an exhibition at the Threshold Art Gallery in Delhi, where her paintings focused on areas of suburban India that sit between the rural and urban. Stockman used ordinary farm equipment, such as grain elevators and silos, to explore her interest in the banal monuments of contemporary India and the intersection of the natural and built environment.

Upon her return, she taught undergraduate painting for two years and received her MFA in studio art from New York University. Stockman's essays about marriage in wartime and life in the high desert have been featured in Vogue Magazine.

While studying Mughal miniature painting in Jaipur, India she discovered the foundation for what would later become Block Shop Textiles, the textile business she co-founded with her sister, textile designer Hopie Stockman. As part of her search for finding the highest quality natural dyes she teamed up with a fifth generation master painter, Viju Chhipa. Lily & Hopie formed a partnership with Viju which evolved into the Block Shop cooperative of printers.

Exhibitions

 * 2016: Solo Exhibition, Gavlak, Los Angeles Pollinator
 * 2014: Solo Exhibition, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles Women
 * 2013: Solo Exhibition, 80WSE Gallery, New York "ULTRAVIOLET: 1913-2013"

Awards

 * 2013 Derek Bok Teaching Award, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
 * 2013 Samuel Eshborn Award, New York, NY
 * 2012 Martin Wong Foundation Scholarship, New York, NY
 * 2011 US-India Educational Foundation Artist's Grant, New Delhi, India
 * 2011 Winterline Centre for the Arts Exhibition Grant, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India
 * 2006 National Geographic Expeditions Council Youth Grant to Mongolia