DIANA AL-HADID

1981 Born in Aleppo, Syria. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME Master in Fine Arts, Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA Bachelor of Fine Arts, Specialization in Image Arts, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA Bachelor of Arts, Art History, Kent State University, Kent, OH

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021 Henry Art Gallery, The University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Galerie Isa. Ballard Estate, Mumbai, India. The Momentary, Bentonville, AR. The Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, , GA. 2019 Mock Sun, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway. Diana Al-Hadid: Sublimations, Frist Art Museum and Cheekwood Estate and Gardens, Nashville, TN. Temperamental Nature, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Delirious Matter, Williams College, Williamstown, MA. 2018 Delirious Matter, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY. Delirious Matter, Madison Square Park Conservancy, , New York, NY. 2017 Falcon’s Fortress, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY. Diana Al-Hadid: Immaterial, Burlington City Arts Center, Burlington, VT. Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. Diana Al-Hadid, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA. 2016 Diana Al-Hadid, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Diana Al-Hadid: Phantom Limb, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI. Diana Al-Hadid, Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, , LA. (Travels to Oak- land, CA, David Winton Bell Gallery, Mills College Art Museum). Diana Al-Hadid: Phantom Limb, The NYUAD Art Gallery, (Traveled to Providence, RI, David Win-ton Bell Gallery, Brown University). Abu Dhabi, UAE. 2015 Ground and Figures, OHWOW, Los Angeles, CA. 2014 The Fates, The Vienna Secession, (Traveled to Abu Dhabi, UAE. The NYUAD Art Gallery) Vienna, Austria. Diana Al-Hadid, The Canzani Center, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH. Diana Al-Hadid: Regarding Medardo Rosso, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY. 2013 Diana Al-Hadid: Nolli’s Orders, Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH. Diana Al-Hadid, Weatherspoon Art Museum, (traveled to Savannah, GA. SCAD Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC. 2012 The Vanishing Point, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY. Trace of a Fictional Third, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. Suspended After Image, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. 2011 Sightings: Diana Al-Hadid, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX. Play the Wolf Fifth, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, La Conservera, Murcia, Spain. Diana Al-Hadid: Water Thief, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV. 2010 Hammer Projects: Water Thief, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. 2008 Reverse Collider, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY. 2007 Record of a Mortal Universe, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 Between the Sun and the Moon, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Lahore Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan. Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY. Life During Wartime, (online), University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL Memling Now: Hans Memling in Contemporary Art, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges, Belgium. Artists for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY. South East North West, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. Romancing the Mirror, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL. 2019 Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH. An Instant Before the World, Rabat Biennale, Rabat, Morocco. Second Hand, Jameel Art Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Cart, horse cart, curated by Michael Goodson and Anna Stothart, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY. NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today, curated by Arnold Lehman, Phillips, New York, NY. Contemporary, Mass Spectacle, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, Eduardo Secci Florence, Italy. 2018 Take Up Space, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH. Eye to Eye: An Exhibition Benefiting Sanctuary for Families, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY. 2017 Sanctuary, a project of the FOR-SITE Foundation, Fort Mason Chapel, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA. Social Photography V, Carriage Trade, New York, NY. Outside/Inside, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL. Post-Election, co-curated by Kristen Dodge and Kate Gilmore, September Gallery, Hudson, NY. 2016 Toshodaiji Temple, Culture City of East Asia 2016, Diana Al-Hadid: The Unicorn Escapes, Nara, Japan. Material Considerations, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2015 In and Out of Time, curated by Jane Neal, Mumbai, India. Galerie Isa, The Sculptor’s Eye: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the Collection, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Mumbai, India. Galerie Isa, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, BLACK / WHITE, curated by Brian Alfred, New York, NY. Glasstress 2015: GOTIKA, an official collateral event of the 56th International Venice Biennale, curat- ed by Dr. Dmitri Ozerkov, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy. 2014 Apocryphal Times, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY. Diana Al-Hadid, Wang Gongxin and Lin Tianmiao: Transcendences, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY. #IN.TER.FER.EN.CE, The Farjam Foundation, Dubai, UAE. NOW-ism: Abstraction Today, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH. LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), Alter/Abolish/Address, as part of 5×5:2014, a project of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, curated by Shamim M. Momim, Washington,D.C. Four Decades of Drawings and Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Tariqah, curated by Mandy Merzaban, Barjeel Art Foundation, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE. Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Fl. BLACK / WHITE, curated by Brian Alfred and Shay Kun, LaMontagne Gallery, , MA 2013 Istanbul ’74, 10 under 40, curated by Isabella Icoz, Istanbul, Turkey. Levity/Gravity, EXPO , curated by Shamim M. Momin, Chicago, IL. Remainder, curated by Lauren Ross, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK. Cadavres Exquis, Musèe Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France. An Artist Collecting Art 1986 – 2013,Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Øvre Eiker, Norway. 2012 IT AIN’T FAIR, OHWOW, Art Basel Beach, Miami, FL. Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, curated by Joseph Becherer, Grand Rapids, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan. REORIENTED, curated by Jack Persekian, Havremagasinet, Luleå, Sweden. Jack Helgesen Family Collection, Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway. Jack Helgesen Family Collection: ARCIHTECTONS, Haugar Art Museum, Tønsberg, Norway. Invisible Cities, curated by Susan Cross, Mass Moca, North Adams, MA. 2011 15 years of Exit Art portfolios 1995 – 2011, Exit Art, Printed Histories: New York, NY. Home Alone, curated by Sarah Aibel, Adam Sender Collection, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Miami, FL. Collapse, curated by Micah Ganske, RH Gallery, New York, NY. CARAVAN, Barjeel Art Foundation, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE. Night Scented Stock, curated by Todd Levin, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY. Outdoor Ex- Cursions, curated by Gregory Volk,BCA Center, Burlington, VT. Touchy Feely, curated by Peter Harkawik, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA. Lost Paradise: Diana Al-Hadid, Mathias Kessler and Julião Sarmento, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY. One, Another, curated by Stephanie Roach, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY. Disquieting Muses, curated by Syrago Tsiara, Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thes-saloniki, Greece. Nereden Nereye, curated by Suzanne Egeran, Galeri Mana, Istanbul, Turkey. NOWNESS: Diana Al-Hadid and Cory Ryman, co-curated by Steven Hempel and Lea Weingarten, Peel Gallery, Houston, TX. 2010 IT AIN’T FAIR 2010, OHWOW, Art Basel Miami Beach, exhibition design by Rafael de Cárdenas, Miami, FL. *Run and Tell That! New work from New York, co-curated by Eric Gleason and David Prince, Syra-cuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY. Art on Paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC. The Silk Road, London and Lille, Saatchi Gallery, France. Paper, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL. Does the Angle Between Two Walls Have a Happy Ending?, curated by Ishmael Randall Weeks, Fed- erica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy. 2009 Disorientation II, curated by Jack Persekian, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Disorientation II, curated by Jack Persekian, University Galleries, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Disorientation II, curated by Jack Persekian, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL. Next Wave Festival, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY. In the Between, curated by Suzanne Egeran, Istanbul, Turkey. Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? curated by Joost Declercq, Watou 2009, Watou, Belgium. Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY. Sharjah Biennial 9, curated by Isabel Carlos, The Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE. Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. Anthology, Otero Plassart, Los Angeles, CA. Black Bile, Red Humour: Aspects of Melancholy, curated by Oliver Zybok, Center for Arts and Culture, Montabaur, Germany 2008 The Station 2008, curated by Shamim M. Momin and Nate Lowman, Midblock East, Miami, FL 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, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany. Changing Climate, Changing Colors – 24 contemporary Muslim Artists, curated by Mareena W. Daredia and Martin Dust, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY. AIM 26, co-curated by Lydia Yee and Erin Salazar, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY. 2006 The Happy Lion, Mutiny, curated by David Hunt, Los Angeles, CA. The Sanctuary and the Scrum, curated by David Hunt, Black and White Gallery, New York, NY. The Small Sculpture Show, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY PUBLICATIONS 2019 Battista, Kathy. New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice. New York, NY. Jameel Arts Center. Second Hand. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Columbus Museum of Art. Driving Forces. Columbus, OH. 2018 Al-Hadid, Diana, Brooke Kamin Rappaport, and Nancy Princenthal. Diana Al-Hadid: Delirious Matter. The Madison Square Park Conservancy. New York, NY. Art21. Being an Artist: Artist Interviews with Art21. Edited by Tina Kukielski. New York, NY. Wallace, Sandra Neil. First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great. Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. New York, NY. 2017 Noey, Christopher. The Artist Project: What Artists See When They Look at Art. The Metropoli- tan Museum of Art. Phaidon. 2016 Al-Hadid, Diana. Diana Al-Hadid. Edited by Mitchell Manacek. Studio Art Exhibition Program, Dartmouth College. Puritan Capital. Falkenburg, Reindert, and Alistair Rider, Sara Raza. Diana Al-Hadid: Phantom Limb. Edited by Maya Allison, Translated by Salam Shughry. Art Gallery of New York University Abu Dhabi. Ski- ra. Hecker, Sharon. Diana Al-Hadid: Regarding Medardo Rosso. Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. Ozerkov, Dimitri. Glasstress Gotika. Edited by Zorina Myskova. The 56th Venice Biennale. PNB Print. Lipsky, Tina, and Annette Südbeck. Diana Al-Hadid: The Fates. Austria: Secession, 2014. Hamza, 2014 Feras, et al. Tariqah, 38–51. Sharjah, UAE: Barjeel Art Foundation. Amirsadeghi, Hossein, and Maryam Eisler. “Art Studio America: Contemporary Art Spaces,” UK Thames and Hudson: 2013 Artaud, Evelyne, Jeanne Fayard, and Diane Watteau. Cadavre Exquis, Suite Méditerranéenne. Paris: Editions Nova, Eden, Xandra, and Gregory Volk. Diana Al-Hadid. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2013. Griffin, Jonathan. Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing. London: Phaidon, 2013, pp. 18 – 19. Trigg, Sarah. Studio Life: Rituals, Collections, Tools and Observations on the Artistic Process. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013, pp. 20 – 30. Buchakjian, Gregory. War and Other [Impossible] Possibilities: Thoughts on Arab History and 2012 Contemporary Art. Beirut: Alarm Editions, 2012. Bua, Matt, and Maximilian Goldfarb. Architectural Inventions: Visionary Drawings. London: Laurence King, 2012. 2011 Slavick, Susanne. Out of Rubble. Milan: Edizioni Charta, 2011. Merzaban, Mandy, et al. Caravan. Sharjah: Barjeel Art Foundation, Maraya Art Center, 2011. Morse, Jed. Sightings: Diana Al-Hadid. Dallas: Nasher Sculpture Center, 2011. [exhibition pam- phlet] 2010 Lee, Yongwwo, et al. Emerging Asian Artists. Gwangju: Gwangju Biennale Press, 2010. 2009 Norr, David. New Weather. Tampa: USF Contemporary Art Museum Publishing, 2009. In the Between. Istanbul: Egeran Art Advisory, 2009. Visionaire 57: 2010. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 2009. New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. London: Transglobe Publishing, 2008 Zybok, Oliver. Black Bile, Red Humour – Aspects of Melancholy in Contemporary Art. Germany: Die Deutsch Bibliothek, 2006 AIM 26. Bronx: Bronx Museum, 2006.

NOTABLE DISTINCTIONS

2020 Panelist: Public Art: A New Vanguard. The Armory Show, New York, NY Award: Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational, New York, NY Award: Visionary Duos, The Bronx Museum, New York, NY 2019 Madison Square Park Conservancy Art Committee Member. New York, NY. 2019 - present Institute of Contemporary Art Advisory Board Member Virginia Commonwealth University. Rich-mond, VA. 2012 – present Kent State University CotA (College of the Arts) Advisory Board Member. Kent, OH. 2016 -Present New York Foundation of the Arts Artist Advisory Committee Member. New York, NY. 2016-2019 2018 Brooklyn Academy of Music Honorary Artist Chair for the 14th Annual BAM Art Auction, Brooklyn, NY Lecture: Bunny and Charles Burston Distinguished Visiting Lecture Series, Tarble Arts Center and Washington, University, IL Keynote Speaker: Ohio Art Education Conference for Professional Development Conference. Sandusky, OH 2017 Panelist: Reflections on Giacometti: In Conversation with Diana Al-Hadid, Huma Bhaba, Charles Ray, moderated by Michael Brenson. Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Panelist: Madison Square Park Symposium: Removing Public Art. School of Visual Arts Theatre, New York, NY Lecture: Conversations with The Artists: Diana Al-Hadid. The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. Panelist: Discussion with Huma Bhabha, Leila Heller, moderated by Sarah Thornton. Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO, Panelist: Curating Public Art. College Art Association, New York, NY 2016 7th Annual Women in Arts Art Basel Magazine Honoree Keynote Speaker: 26th International Sculpture Conference. Sculpture in Context: Tradition and Innovation. Pittsburgh, 2015 Lecture: Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar, Commencement Address 2014 Kent State University, Distinguished Honors Alumni, Kent, OH Residency: Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy 2013 Residency: Flying Horse Press, nominated by Sarah Suzuki,University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Panelist: Savannah College of Art and Design. Discussion with Ursula von Rydingsvard and Leon- ardo Drew. Savannah, GA Video series: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Artist on Artworks 2011 Joan Mitchell Foundation, Grant for Painters & Sculptors 2010 Nucci Award, University of Southern Florida Graphicstudio, Tampa, FL Nimoy Foundation Award to support artist residency at USF Institute for Research in Art 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture, New York 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York Residency: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 2006 Residency: Sculpture Space, Utica, NY

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA The Hood Museum, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH TheT oledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, IN