Tam Stockton (born 1997, Berkeley, CA) is an artist working with Photography. He received a Master in Fine Arts from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2025 and a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Bard College in 2019 where he studied photography and worked assisting Barbara Ess. Stockton’s work is often made in pursuit of the uncanny, using both physical and digital manipulation to invoke questions of tangibility and photographic representation. His work has been exhibited in several prestigious venues along the East Coast and included on several occasions in The New York Times. Currently, Stockton is living in Philadelphia, PA.
Education
2025 MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2019 BFA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Residency
2024 Installation Space Artist Residency, North Adams, MA
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Chocolate Cake, Installation Space Gallery, North Adams, MA
2019 Dead Flowers // i, Woods Studio, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Group Exhibitions
2025 Lucid Dreams, Penumbra Foundation, Manhattan, NY
2025 RISD Grad Show 2025, Providence Convention Center, Providence, RI
2025 Boston–Wide Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2024 New Topographics, Katzman Contemporary Projects, Dover, NH
2024 Home/World, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2023 Palimpsest, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI
2019 Social Photography VII, Carriage Trade, Manhattan, NY
Awards
2024 T.C. Colley Scholarship for Excellence in Photography
2023 Aperture Creator Labs Photo Fund Recipient
Artist Talks
2024 Not Yet Named, Fabrica Residency, Italy
Publications
2025 The Baby Died. Who’s Fault is it?,
Article by Emi Nietfeld, 9.3.25, Wired Magazine
2025 Trump’s Stunning Bid to Control Elections,
Article by Barton Gellman, 8.28.25, The New York Times
2025 Trump’s Voting Rights Chaos Is a Pattern,
Article by Tressie McMillan Cottom, 8.25.25, The New York Times
2024 Trump Is About to Face the Choice That Dooms Many Presidencies,
Article by Oren Cass, 11.9.24, The New York Times
2024 Goodbye to Democracy? Not Quite Yet.,
Article by Veith Selk, 11.8.24, The New York Times
2024 How Lying Became Disinformation,
Article by James Kirchick, 9.23.24, The New York Times
2024 The Political Cost to Kamala Harris of Not Answering Direct Questions,
Article by Todd S. Purdum, 9.19.24, The New York Times
2024 On Abortion, Trump Floundered in Fantasy Land,
Article by Mara Gay, 9.10.24, The New York Times
2024 How Should We Mourn the End of Summer?,
Article by Cody Delistraty, 9.1.24, The New York Times
2024 The Beaches of the Future Are Going to Surprise Us, The New York Times
Article by Sara Stodola, 7.15.24, The New York Times
2024 See-Zeen Issue 11 - Winter 2024, See-Zeen
2024 See-Zeen Issue 12 - Spring 2024, See-Zeen
2023 Exciting Photography Now!, Matte Editions