d iana al- had id, Untitled, 2012; Conté crayon, charcoal, pastel, and acrylic on Mylar; Collection of the artist.
Diana Al-Hadid was born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1981, and raised in Canton, Ohio. She received a BFA in sculpture and a BA in art history from Kent State University, Ohio (2003) and an MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (2005), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (2007). Al-Hadid has had solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; University of Texas at Austin Visual Arts Center; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; Akron Art Museum, Ohio; Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio; the Vienna Secession, Austria; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans; and the Art Gallery of New York University at Abu Dhabi, UAE. Her work has also been featured in important international group exhibitions, including Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, Saatchi Gallery, London; Sharjah Biennial 9; Glasstress 2015: GOTIKA, an official collateral event of the 56th International Venice Biennale; and Culture City of East Asia 2016, Toshodaiji Temple, Nara, Japan. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
list of works in the exhibition (All artwork by Diana Al-Hadid unless otherwise noted)
Nolli’s Orders, 2012 Steel, polymer gypsum, fiberglass, wood, foam, plaster, aluminum foil, and pigment; 164 x 228 x 122 inches; Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Untitled, 2013 Conté crayon, charcoal, pastel, and acrylic on Mylar; 42 x 63 ¾ inches; Collection of Jeff Assaf, Los Angeles
Mob Mentality, 2014 Polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, plaster, gold leaf, and pigment; 83 x 120 ½ x 6 inches; Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Untitled, 2012 Conté crayon, charcoal, pastel, and acrylic on Mylar; 42 x 53 inches; Collection of the artist Giulio di Antonio Bonasone after Pontromo The Birth of John the Baptist, mid-sixteenth century Engraving; 15 ¼ x 17 ½ inches; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection Giambattista Nolli Nuova pianta di Roma, 1748/1984 Unbound twelve-page folio; 22 ½ x 31 7/8 inches each page; University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Design Library, Rare Collection Giovanni Battista Piranesi View of Piazza Navona above the ruins of the circus of Domitian, 1751, from the series “Views of Rome” Etching; 16 1/8 x 21 3/8 inches; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City is on view at the San Jose Museum of Art, February 24–September 24, 2017. The exhibition is sponsored by the Myra Reinhard Family Foundation. Additional support provided by Tad and Jackson Freese, and Wanda Kownacki.