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= Diana Al-Hadid =

Early Life
Diana al-Hadid is a contemporary artist. She was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1981. When she was five, her family moved to Cleveland, Ohio where Al-Hadid grew up. She speaks both Arabic and English. Al-Hadid is a Muslim and female artist, which can present challenges in the culture of today. She uses her art and non-Western concepts to help bridge her Western life to her Middle Eastern upbringing. Al-Hadid grew up creating art with her grandmother and from a young age she was enamored with the relationship between space and perspective.

Education
Al-Hadid attended Glen Oak High School in Canton, Ohio. She then went on to study art at Kent State focussing on sculpture and art history. She also attended Virginia Commonwealth University and received an MFA in sculpture. After attending VCU she went to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where she completed a residency. After all her education she moved to New York where she still currently resides with her husband and son.

Works
Diana al-Hadid ties her Syrian heritage in with many of her works one in particular being The Gradual Approach of My Disintegration. In this work she pairs sandals with the Aleppo Citadel, which is a Muslim holy cite, to create a work that showcases the culture of Syria visually and briefly. Although many of her works have a tie and direct message linked to her Middle Eastern heritage, the materials she uses in her sculptures are a tie to her American upbringing. The materials she uses are easier to obtain in American culture than in the culture of the Middle East. Diana al-Hadid's works are poetic causing the viewers to stop and reflect on what it is she is trying to say through her work. It is hard to decipher whether her sculptures are being built up or torn down.

Sculpture
Diana al-Hadid creates visually stimulating sculptures with a variety of materials. Her sculptures are meticulously created with eccentric patterns and melded parts. Her sculptures show a potential to fall at any moment but are truly quite stable. Al-Hadid uses materials such as cardboard, plywood, plaster, and resin to create sculptures that appear to be breaking or even melting. These sculptures melt and break apart recognizable imagery into an aesthetic creation that energizes the space it is in. An example of this aesthetic creativity can be found in her sculpture Tomorrow's Superstitions. This piece takes an architectural structure and takes it apart placing the broken pieces onto areas that they would not normally appear. Her sculptures, though not truly moving, have a sense of movement about them that causes the viewer to want to view her work at every possible angle. Through her sculptures she focuses on the relationship between a person’s mind as well as their physical being. Many of her sculptures allows the audience to walk among the different parts of the sculpture. This ability presents a much richer viewing experience.

Exhibitions
Al-Hadid has been exhibited in various galleries and museums across the globe. She has been exhibited as both a solo artist and in group exhibitions. There are also several galleries and museums that have various pieces of Al-Hadid's in their permanent collection.

Solo Exhibitions
Al-Hadid has an extensive list of solo exhibitions, and has been continually showing each year, often multiple times a year, since her first solo exhibition, which dated back to 2007, the same year she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is still a solo exhibiting artist, and is scheduled to have a solo show in Nashville, beginning in May of 2019.

The number and variation in the locations of her solo exhibitions has been a driving force in her popularity and global recognition.

Al-Hadid has been exhibited as a solo artist in the following exhibitions, among others:


 * 2018


 * 1) San Francisco, CA. Berggruen Gallery, Temperamental Nature
 * 2) Williamstown, MA. Williams College, Delirious Matter
 * 3) New York, NY. The Bronx Museum of the Arts
 * 4) New York, NY. Madison Square Park Conservancy


 * 2017


 * 1) New York, NY. Marianne Boesky Gallery, Falcon's Fortress
 * 2) Burlington, VT. Burlington City Arts Center, Diana Al-Hadid: Immaterial
 * 3) San Jose, CA. San Jose Museum of Art, Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City
 * 4) Oakland, CA. Mills College Art Museum, Diana Al-Hadid


 * 2016


 * 1) Hanover, NH. Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Dartmouth College, Diana Al-Hadid
 * 2) Providence, RI. David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Diana Al-Hadid: Phantom Limb
 * 3) New Orleans, LA. Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, Diana Al-Hadid
 * 4) Abu Dhabi, UAE. The NYUAD Art Gallery, Diana Al-Hadid: Phantom Limb


 * 2015


 * 1) Los Angeles, CA. OHWOW, Ground and Figures


 * 2014


 * 1) Vienna, Austria. The Vienna Secession, The Fates
 * 2) Columbus, OH. The Canzani Center, Columbus College of Art and Design


 * 2013


 * 1) Akron, OH. Akron Museum of Art, Diana Al-Hadid: Nolli’s Orders, November 23 – April 13, 2014.
 * 2) Greensboro, NC. Weatherspoon Art Museum, Diana Al-Hadid


 * 2012


 * 1) New York, NY. Marianne Boesky Gallery, The Vanishing Point
 * 2) Richmond, VA. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Trace of a Fictional Third
 * 3) Austin, TX. Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Suspended After Image


 * 2011


 * 1) Dallas, TX. Nasher Sculpture Center, Sightings: Diana Al-Hadid
 * 2) Murcia, Spain. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, La Conservera, Play the Wolf Fifth
 * 3) Reno, NV. Nevada Museum of Art, Diana Al-Hadid: Water Thief


 * 2010


 * 1) Los Angeles, CA. Hammer Museum, Hammer Projects: Water Thief


 * 2008


 * 1) New York, NY. Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Reverse Collider


 * 2007


 * 1) New York, NY. Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Record of a Mortal Universe

Group Exhibitions

 *  2018   
 * Columbus, OH, Pizzuti Collection, Take Up Space
 * New York, NY, Arsenal Contemporary, Eye to Eye: An Exhibition Benefiting Sanctuary for Families
 *  2017 
 * San Francisco, CA. Fort Mason Chapel, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Sanctuary
 * New York, NY. Carriage Trade, Social Photography V
 * Hudson, NY. September Gallery, Post-Election, co-curated by Kristen Dodge and Kate Gilmore
 *  2016 
 * Nara, Japan. Toshodaiji Temple, Culture City of East Asia 2016, Diana Al-Hadid: The Unicorn Escapes
 * San Francisco, CA. John Berggruen Gallery, Material Considerations
 *  2015 
 * Lincoln, MA. deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, The Sculptor’s Eye: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the Collection
 * New York, NY. Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, BLACK / WHITE
 * Venice, Italy. Palazzo Franchetti, Glasstress 2015: GOTIKA
 *  2014 
 * Washington, D.C. LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), Alter/Abolish/Address
 * San Francisco, CA. John Berggruen Gallery, Four Decades of Drawings and Works on Paper
 * Tampa, Fl. Tampa Museum of Art, Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF
 * Boston, MA. LaMontagne Gallery, BLACK / WHITE
 *  2013 
 * Venice, Italy, Diana Al-Hadid and Medardo Rosso, Workshop Arte Contremporanea
 * Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul ’74, 10 under 40
 * Chicago, IL. EXPO Chicago, Levity/Gravity
 *  2012 
 * Grand Rapids, Michigan. Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture
 * North Adams, MA. Mass Moca, Invisible Cities


 *  2011 
 * Sharjah, UAE. Barjeel Art Foundation, Maraya Art Centre, CARAVAN
 * Thessaloniki, Greece. Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art, Disquieting Muses
 *  2010 
 * Greensboro, NC. Weatherspoon Art Museum, Art on Paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition
 *  2009 
 * Abu Dhabi, UAE. Manarat Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Island, Disorientation II
 * Tampa, FL. USF Contemporary Art Museum, New Weather
 * London, UK. The Saatchi Gallery, Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East
 *  2008 
 * Miami, FL. Midblock East, The Station 2008
 *  2007 
 * New York, NY. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Agitation and Repose
 *  2006 
 * Bronx, NY. Bronx Museum, AIM 26

Selected Collections

 * San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, TX


 * The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
 * DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
 * The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
 * Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
 * The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
 * Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
 * Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York
 * C-Collection, Vaduz, Principality of Liechtenstein
 * Saatchi Collection, London, United Kingdom

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