DIANA AL-HADID
Born 1981 in Aleppo, Syria.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
2007 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2005 MFA Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2003 BFA Sculpture, Kent State University, Kent, OH
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Reverse Collider, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Record of a Mortal Universe, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
2006
The Gradual Approach of My Disintegration, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY
Pangaea's Blanket (and the Slowest Descent from Grace), Visual Arts Gallery, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
The Fourth Room, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Immodest Mountain, Arlington Art Center, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Unveiled: New Art From the Middle East, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Sharjah Biennial 9, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2008
The Station 2008, curated by Shamim Momin and Nate Lowman, Midblock East, Miami, FL
Anthology, Otero Plassart, Los Angeles, CA
Black Bile, Red Humour: Aspects of Melancholy in Contemporary Art, curated by Oliver Zybok, Center for Arts and Culture, Montabaur, Germany
2007
Agitation and Repose, curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Blood Meridian, curated by David Hunt, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
2006
Mutiny, curated by David Hunt, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
The Sanctuary and the Scrum, curated by David Hunt, Black and White Gallery, New York, NY
AIM 26, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
SELECTED ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
2008
Baker, R. C. "Best in Show. Stan the Man." Village Voice. Vol. LIII, No. 40. 1 October 2008: 43.
Cohen, David. "Frozen Instants of Failure." The New York Sun. 18 September 2008.
Cohen, David. "Painting's Post-Feminist Form & Sculpture's Matron Saint." The New York Sun. 17 September 2008: 53.
Grosz, David. "Diana Al-Hadid in New York." Artinfo.com, http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28490/diana-al-hadid-in-new-york 5 September 2008.
Rosenberg, Karen. "Diana Al-Hadid: Reverse Collider." New York Times. 3 October 2008: E35.
Zybok, Oliver, ed. Black Bile, Red Humour: Aspects of Melancholy in Contemporary Art. exh. cat. Kunst und Kulturzentrum Montabaur. Cologne: Salon Verlag, 2008.
"Diana Al-Hadid." New York Magazine, 1-8 September 2008: 162.
2007
Baker, R.C. "Dumb Question. Recommendations by R.C. Baker." Village Voice. 24 July 2007.
Cohen, David. "Curating a Common Gallery-Going." Review of Agitation and Repose at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. The New York Sun. 26 July 2007.
Cotter, Holland. "Agitation and Repose." The New York Times, Museum and Gallery Listings section, 10 August 2007.
"Diana Al-Hadid." Daily Serving: An International Forum for the Exposure of Contemporary Art . 19 November 2007.
Falconer, Morgan. "Morgan Falconer's Round-up of Summer Shows in New York," Saatchi Online. Fall 2007.
Figwer, Caroline. "Diana Al-Hadid: The Gradual Approach of My Disintegration at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art." Art & Internet, CIMAISE-CECI EST UN MAGAZINE D'ART. March/April 2007: 77.
Sharpe, Emily. "Diana Al-Hadid: Pulling Out All the Stops." The Art Newspaper Art Basel Miami Beach Daily Edition, 6 December 2007: 10.
Wolff, Rachel. "Diana Al-Hadid's Stairway to Heaven." nymag.com. 7 November 2007.
"Diana Al-Hadid." The New Yorker. 19 November 2007.
"Critic's Pick." New York Magazine, 29 October, 2007.
"Diana Al-Hadid." NY Arts Magazine, Voices section. October/November 2007.
2006
Genocchio, Benjamin. "For Hopeful Artists, the Search to Be Just Themselves." The New York Times. Review of AIM 26, 9 April 2006.
Rockwell, Steve. "A Stir in Richmond, Virginia." D'Art International. 11 April 2006.
AIM 26. exh. cat. Bronx, NY: Bronx Museum, 2006.
Stone, Billy. "Going Down to Chinatown." Los Angeles Entertainment Today. vol. 38 no. 57, 10-16 November 2006.
2005
O'Sullivan, Michael. "New Sensations." The Washington Post. 19 August 2005.
HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
2007
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY
Residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
Skowhegan, ME
2006
Artist-in-the-Marketplace Program, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, NY
2005
Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The C Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
The Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York, NY
The Saatchi Collection, London, UK