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Diana Thater

(American, born 1962)

Diana Thater

The Caucus Race, 1998

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Biography

Timeline

1962: born in San Francisco, CA
1984: received BA Art History, New York University, New York NY
1990: received MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA
1991: recipient of Artists at Giverny Program, Artist-in-Residence at the Claude Monet Foundation, Lila AchesonWallace Reader’s Digest Foundation, Giverny, France
1993: recipient of Other Genres Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C
1995: recipient of Project Grant, Etant Donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, New York
recpient of Beyond the Borders: Gwangju Biennale prize, Gwangju, South Korea
1998: participated in The International Artist-in-Residence Program, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
2005: recipient of Fellowship Award, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York
2006: recipient of James D. Phelan Art Award in Film and Video, The San Francisco Foundation
2011: recipient of 2011 Award for Artistic Innovation, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles
2014: recipient of California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, Los Angeles
2018: recipient of Art + Technology Lab Grant, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
: lives and works in Los Angeles
: Artist-in-Residence for SaveTaijiDolphins.com, Earth Island Institute, San Francisco since 1999

Exhibitions

2019: Diana Thater Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
PHOTO, Parkett Space Zurich, Zurich
2018: Diana Thater Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Diana Thater, The Watershed, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (solo exhibition)
Art on theMART, Chicago Riverwalk, Chicago
Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts [itinerary: SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York]
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York
Natural Wonders: The Sublime in Contemporary Art, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
A TIME CAPSULE REVISITED: A New Installation of Works Made by Women for Parkett (1984- 2017), New Temporary Parkett Space, Zurich
2017 - 2019: Diana Thater Selected Exhibitions in 2017-2019:
Diana Thater: A Runaway World, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles [itinerary: Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain]
2017: Diana Thater Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Diana Thater: A Runaway World, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles [itinerary: Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain] (solo exhibition)
Diana Thater: The Starry Messenger, Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, Texas (solo exhibition)
14th Biennale de Lyon: Floating Worlds, Lyon
Artists of Color, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles [organized in collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles]
The Basilisk, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
The Garden - End of Times; Beginning of Times, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark
INCITE, SPACE, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
Medienkunst von Nam June Paik bis Pipilotti Rist/Media Art from Nam June Paik to Pipilotti Rist, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
2016: Diana Thater Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Diana Thater, 1301PE, Los Angeles (solo exhibition)
Indestructible Wonder, San Jose Museum of Art, California
On Space and Place: Contemporary Art from Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Vancouver, Depaul Art Museum, Chicago [organized in collaboration with ART21]
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
2015: Diana Thater Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Beta Space: Diana Thater, San Jose Museum of Art, California (solo exhibition)
Diana Thater: gorillagorillagorilla, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (solo exhibition)
Diana Thater: Life is a Timed-Based Medium, Hauser & Wirth, London (solo exhibition)
Diana Thater: Science, Fiction, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Diana Thater: The Starry Messenger, Galerie Éric Hussenot, Paris (solo exhibition)
Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [itinerary: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago] (solo exhibition)
Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey [itinerary: Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin]
Ladies’ Knight: The Female Perspective on Chess, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, Missouri
the slow burn, Ditch Projects, Springfield, Oregon
Vita Vitale, The Azerbaijan Pavilion, Venice [part of the 56th Venice Biennale: All the World’s Futures]
2014: Diana Thater Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Diana Thater: Delphine, Saint-Philibert, Dijon [organized by Fonds régional d’art contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon] (solo exhibition)
Cinema & Painting, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
(De-) Construction: Fiction & Reality, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
Here Today…Marking 50 years of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species, The Old Sorting Office, London [organized by Artwise]
On the Blue Shore of Silence, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York
Out of Sight: New Acquisitions, Vancouver Art Gallery
Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2006: Idylle, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
: Projections, Beyond Cinematic Space, Nationalgalerie imHamburger Bahnhof Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
: Ballerina in a Whirlpool: Works by Isa Genzken, Richard Jackson, Roman Signer and Diana Thater from the Hauser & Wirth Collection, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden Baden, Germany
: Ectopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, New York, USA
: Four Thursday Nights: Group Dynamics, Aspen Art Muesum, Aspen Colorado, USA
: Whitney Biennial 2006 Biennial Exhibition: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA
: Centro Cultural Conde Duque, 'Fast Forward, Media Art/Sammlung Goetz', Madrid/E
: 1301PE, 'Pink Daisies, Amber Room', Los Angeles CA (solo)
: Zwirner & Wirth, 'Diana Thater: New Work', New York NY (solo)
2005: Haunch of Venision, 'Perpetual Motion Perfect Devotion', London/UK (solo)
: David Zwirner, 'Continuous Contiguous', New York NY (solo)
2004: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 'Nature ganz Kunst', Hamburg/D
: The Contemporary Jewish Museum, '100 Artists See God', San Francisco CA. Traveled to Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach CA; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virgina VA
: MuHKA, 'Not Done', Antwerp/B
: Haunch of Venison, 'ANIMALS', London/GB
: Museum der Moderne, 'einleuchten', Salzburg/A
: Orange County Museum of Art, 'Hypermedia', Newport Harbor CA
: Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 'Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof', Berlin/D
: Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, 'Keep the Faith. A Survey Exhibition', Siegen/D (travelled to Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen/D) (solo)
: 1301PE, 'White is the Color', Los Angeles CA (solo)
: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 'Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collections', Bibao/ES
: ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, 'Fast Forward: Media Art Sammlung Goetz', Karlsruhe/D
: Museum of Contemporary Art MoCA, 'SITINGS: Installation Art 1969-2002', cur. Paul Shimmel, Los Angeles CA
: San Diego Museum of Art, 'Of Earth and Sky: Elements in Abstraction', San Diego CA
2003: Haunch of Venison. 'Transcendence is expansion and contraction at the same time', London/GB (solo)
2002: Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, 'Vidéo topiques. Tours et Retours de L'Art Vidéo', Strasbourg/F
: Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 'Das Tier in mir. Die Mensch-Tier-Verwandtschaft in der zeitgenössischen Kunst', Baden-Baden/D
: Galerie Hauser & Wirth, 'Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth', Zurich/CH
: San José Museum of Art, 'Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950-2000', San Jose CA
: Kunsthalle Basel, 'Keine Kleinigkeit', Basel/CH
: Fondation Beyeler, 'Monet und der digitale Impressionismus', Basel/CH
: Nicolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Center, 'Making Nature', Copenhagen/DK. Traveled to Österreichsche Galerie Belvedere, Vienna/A
: Galleria Emi Fontana, 'Bastard Pink', Milan/I (solo)
: Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, 'Diana Thater', Paris/F (solo)
: Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Bitstreams', New York NY
: National Gallery of Canada, 'Elusive Paradise', Ottawa/CDN
: UCLA Hammer Museum, 'Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film', Los Angeles CA
: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, 'Enclosed and Enchanted', Preston/GB. Traveled to Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield/GB
: J. Paul Getty Museum, 'Devices of Wonder: From the World in a box to images on a screen', Los Angeles CA
: 1301 PE, 'The sky is unfolding under you', Los Angeles CA (solo)
: David Zwirner, 'The sky is unfolding under you', New York NY (solo)
2001: DIA Center for the Arts, 'Knots + Surfaces', New York NY (solo)
2000: Vienna Secession, 'Delphine', Vienna/A (solo)
: Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, 'Broken Circle', Siegen/D (solo)
: 1301 PE, 'Diana Thater', Los Angeles CA (solo)
: Galerie Hauser & Wirth, 'Delphine', Zurich/CH (solo)
: Galleria Emi Fontana, ‘The Caucus Race‘, Milan/I (solo)
: Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, 'Diana Thater', Paris/F (solo)
: Tensta Kontshall , 'Diana Thater', Spain/S (solo)
1999: The St. Louis Art Museum, 'The best outside is the inside', St. Louis MO (solo)
: Art Gallery of York University, 'The best sense is the non-sense', Toronto/CDN (solo)
: Carnegie Museum of Art, 'The best space is the deep space', Pittsburgh PA (solo)
: H&R Projects, 'Diana Thater', Brussels/B (solo)

Public Collections

: The Art Institute of Chicago
: Vanmoerkerke Collection, Ostend, Belgium
: Vancouver Art Gallery
: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Tate Gallery, London
: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
: Sammlung Goetz, Munich
: Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, Henau, Switzerland
: Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
: Portland Art Museum, Oregon
: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
: Museum Ludwig, Cologne
: Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
: Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
: Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
: Fonds Régional Art Contemporain - Rhône-Alpes, Institute d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
: CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder
: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
: The Broad, Los Angeles
: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California
: Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Performances

2007: Virtuosic Siblings: Berlin - LA Festival of Film/Art, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles [itinerary: Goethe Institut Los Angeles,; REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles]
2006 - 2008: JUMP, a collaboration with T. Kelly Mason, Tate Modern, London; Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles; Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; David Zwirner, New York
1998 - 2000: The future that almost wasn’t, a collaboration with T. Kelly Mason, Artpace San Antonio, Texas; Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel/Marstall, Munich; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

Diana Thater

(American, born 1962)

Diana Thater

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Performances

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