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Diana Quinby (Manhattan, 1967) is an American artist and art historian who lives and works in France.

Life and work
Diana Quinby studied painting and printmaking at Bennington College (Vermont) and completed a Master of Arts degree in printmaking at the State University of New York at Albany.

She initially went to Paris, France, to do an internship in a professional printmaking workshop as part her Master's degree. She has been living and working there permanently since 1993.

In 2003, she completed a doctoral thesis at the University of Paris-1, Pantheon-Sorbonne, on the subject of art and feminism in France in the 1970’s. The title of the thesis is : Le Collectif Femmes/Art à Paris dans les années 1970 : une contribution à l’étude du mouvement des femmes dans l’art. Her research director was Françoise Levaillant. Diana Quinby has participated in several conferences on women in the fine arts, namely at the Rendez-vous de l’Histoire in Blois, France, in 2004.

Diana Quinby is essentially a graphic artist. She works primarily in drawing, lithography and intaglio. There is also a connection between her art historical research on women artists and her artistic practice. Her recent drawings are inspired from her experience of motherhood. When pregnant with her second child in 2005, she began to draw larger-than-life self portraits using neither mirrors nor reference photographs. Reinvent how to see the body. Since these pregnancy drawings, she has continued to explore portraiture and the nude body in order to reveal emotional readings concerning femininity, masculinity, sexuality and aging. In her large scale portraits of teenagers, attention to how clothing is drawn brings the body to life.

Diana Quinby’s drawings can be linked to a new-found interest in figurative art, but her work is in no way hyper-realistic/ Proportions are distorted and anatomical details are invented. The artist isn’t interested reproducing the body as she sees it, but in inventing how she sh to penetrate the body through line and mark-making. By working exclusively in black and white

Shows (selection)

 * Solo Shows
 * 2005, Desseins animés, C.I.S.P. Maurice Ravel, Paris, France
 * 2004, L’arbre vertébral, choregraphy and show with Cathleen Andrews, Danse Connexion, Paris, and Café de la Danse, Paris, France
 * 2002, Vol/Virée/Vertige/Vertèbre, choregraphy and show avec Cathleen Andrews, Danse Connexion, Paris, France
 * 1999, Architecture Vertébrale, Ars Longa, espace multimédia, Paris, France
 * 1998, Rathbone Gallery, The Sage College, Albany, NY
 * 1997,
 * Galerie La Caserne, Paris, France
 * Vertebral Architecture, Dietel Gallery, Troy, NY
 * 1993, Strange Obsessions, Atelier Champfleury, Paris, France


 * Group Shows
 * 2010,
 * De face, Maison d'art contemporain Chailloux, Fresnes, France
 * 2009,
 * Le corps mis à nu, Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris, France
 * Anatomanie, Espace Saint Louis, Bar-le-Duc, France
 * Dessins et Estampes, Le Préau, Paris, France
 * 2007, Anatomanie, l'École Buissonnière, Paris, France
 * 2006,
 * Morceaux Choisis, Centre d'expositions Les Réservoirs, Limay, France
 * Trinitaires, Cellier des Moines, Tournus, France
 * 1995,	Mini-Print Triennale, Galleria Marian Portti, Lahti, Finlande

Publications

 * in English
 * Art about Motherhood : the last taboo? Reflections of an American in Paris, in Reconciling Art and Motherhood, textes réunis par Rachel Epp Buller, to be published.
 * A Passion for Printmaking: Prints of Sandra Wimer, 1992-2000, texte pour le catalogue d'exposition Sandra S. Wimer: Prints, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, New York, 2001.


 * in French
 * Que veut l'art féministe ?, in Dictionnaire d'esthétique et de philosophie de l'art, directed by Jacques Morizot and Roger Pouivet, Armand Colin Edition, Paris, 2007.
 * La peinture de fr:Monique Frydman, 1977-1983: de la violence à la libération de l'imaginaire féminin, in Création au féminin. Volume 2: Arts visuels, textes réunis par Marianne Camus, Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2006.
 * Portraits croisés, l'oeuvre de Liliane Camier et de Judith Wolfe, 1977-1985, in Art & Fact, revue des historiens de l'art de l'Université de Liège, n° 24, 2005.
 * De l’art et du féminisme en France dans les années 1970, Extrait du Bulletin Archives du féminisme, #8, décembre 2004
 * Peindre / Combattre, un texte de Françoise Eliet, in Les écrits d'artistes depuis 1940, textes réunis par Françoise Levaillant, Éditions IMEC, 2004.