Biography

Diana Al-Hadid was born 1981 in Aleppo, Syria and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA in Sculpture, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio and an MFA in Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. In 2007 she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
Skowhegan, Maine.

She was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture in 2009 and was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2007. Solo exhibitions include “Reverse Collider”, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY (2008) and “The Gradual Approach of My Disintegration”, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY (2006). Her work has been included in numerous international group exhibitions including, “The Station 2008”, Midblock East, Miami, “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East,” The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2009), the 9th Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2009), and “In the Between”, Istanbul Turkey (2009).

November 2009