Diana Al-Hadid

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Diana Al-Hadid is a contemporary artist. She was born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1981 and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BA in Art History and a BFA in sculpture from Kent State University in Ohio (2003), an MFA sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (2005), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine (2007).

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[edit] Artistic practice

The work of Diana Al-Hadid is, in many ways, about architecture. Her sculptures often recall built structures—cathedrals, pipe organs, towers, labyrinths, cities—yet are made of simple, often delicate or fragile materials, such as polymer gypsum, plaster, fiberglass, wood, polystyrene, cardboard, wax, and paint, commonly found in art and industrial supply shops. Notes Nasher Sculpture Center Director Jeremy Strick: “Diana Al-Hadid creates breathtaking sculptures that surprise us by their unusual forms, unconventional use of materials, and distinctive range of reference and allusion. Her innovative work opens up new ground for the form and meaning of sculpture.”

The sculptures have the appearance of unfinished buildings or archeological remains, and it is often difficult to discern if they are in the process of construction or collapse. Ranging in scale from the human to the architectural, her work references a diverse set of interests, including Arab and Greek mythology, Gothic and Middle Eastern architecture, cosmology and physics.

Despite their personal and intellectual origins, it is their physical presence and ephemeral materiality that make the sculptures powerful, universally understandable evocations of the human condition.[1] Al-Hadid’s ruminations on architectural ruins have recently expanded with the increasing presence of the figure. The fragmented, melting or draped Hellenistic-like figures meld and blur in to the construction and in some instances become incised by the structure. In 2010 she also began working in bronze.

An equally accomplished part of Al-Hadid’s practice is her works on paper. These are not preparatory drawings to her sculptures; rather they are finished meticulously layered, conflated and erased conglomerates of pigment, conté and charcoal. Frequently architecture and, even figures, may reveal themselves behind the veil of the artist’s feverish strokes.


[edit] Selected solo exhibitions

[edit] Selected group exhibitions

  • Venice, Italy, Workshop Arte Contemporanea, Diana Al-Hadid and Medardo Rosso (2013)
  • North Adams, MA, Mass Moca, 'Invisible Cities' (2012)
  • New York, NY, Exit Art, 'Printed Histories: 15 years of Exit Art portfolios 1995-2011' (2011)
  • Miami, FL, Adam Sender Collection, Art Basel Miami Beach, 'Home Alone,' curated by Sarah Aibel (2011)
  • New York, NY, RH Gallery, 'Collapse,' (2012)
  • Sharjah, Barjeel Art Foundation, Maraya Art Center, 'CARAVAN,' (2011)
  • New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, 'Night Scented Stock,' curated by Todd Levin, (2011)
  • Burlington, VT, BCA Center, 'Outdoor Excursions,' curated by Gregory Volk (2011)
  • Los Angeles, Human Resources, 'Touchy Feely,' (2011)
  • New York, NY, Marianne Boesky Gallery, 'Lost Paradise,' including Diana Al-Hadid, Mathias Kessler, and Julião Sarmento (2011)
  • New York, NY, The Flag Art Foundation, 'One, Another,' curated by Stephanie Roach (2011)
  • Thessaloniki, Greece, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki – State Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Disquieting Muses' (2011)
  • Istanbul, Turkey, Galeri Mana, 'Nereden Nereye' (2011)
  • Houston, TX, Peel Gallery, 'NOWNESS' (2011)
  • Miami,FL, OHWOW, Art Basel Miami Beach, 'IT AIN’T FAIR 2010' (2010)
  • Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Art Galleries, 'Run and Tell That! New work from New York' (2010)
  • Greensboro, NC, Weatherspoon Art Museum, 'Art on Paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition'(2010)
  • London and Lille, France, Saatchi Gallery, 'The Silk Road' (2010)
  • Miami, Florida, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, 'Paper' (2010)
  • Rome Italy, Federica Schiavo Gallery, 'Does the Angle Between Two Walls Have a Happy Ending' (2010)
  • Tampa, FL, USF, Contemporary Art Museum, 'New Weather' (2010)
  • Abu Dhabi, UAE, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Island, 'Disorientation II' (2009)
  • Gainesville, FL, UF University Galleries, 'Fresh From Chelsea' (2009)
  • Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 'Next Wave Festival' (2009)
  • Istanbul, Turkey, 'In the Between' (2009)
  • Watou, Belgium. Watou 2009, 'Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?' (2009)
  • New York, NY, Academy of Arts & Letters, 'Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts' (2009)
  • United Arab Emirates, The Sharjah Art Foundation, 'Sharjah Biennial 9' (2009)
  • London, UK, The Saatchi Gallery, 'Unveiled: New Art From the Middle East' (2009)
  • Montabaur, Germany, Center for Arts and Culture, 'Black Bile, Red Humour: Aspects of Melancholy,' curated by Oliver Zybok, (2008)
  • New York, NY, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 'Agitation and Repose,' curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, (2007)
  • Berlin, Germany, Galerie Michael Janssen, 'Blood Meridian,' curated by David Hunt, Galerie Michael Janssen, (2007)

[edit] Honors and Distinctions

  • Nucci Award, USF Graphicstudio, Tampa, FL (2010)
  • Nimoy Foundation Award to support artist residency at USF Institute for Research in Art (2010)
  • Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant (2009)
  • United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow (2009)[2]
  • New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture (2009)
  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY (2007)
  • Residency at Artist-in-the-Marketplace Program, Bronx Museum, New York, NY (2006)
  • Residency with Full Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, NY (2006)
  • Residency at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY (2006)

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ United States Artists Official Website
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