Diana Al-Hadid
Artist
- Biography
- Diana Al-Hadid (b. 1981, Syria) is a New York-based artist celebrated for her sculptural practice and site-specific installations that explore the intersections of architecture, history and the built environment. Her work employs diverse materials to create evocative forms that appear at once monumental and ephemeral. Al-Hadid has mounted several public site specific installations across the United States and abroad, including permanent commissions for the Princeton University Art Museum and the MTA at Penn Station in New York City. Al-Hadid has presented numerous solo exhibitions at museums worldwide including a recent survey exhibition at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, which traveled to Georgetown University Art Galleries, Washington, D.C., and was accompanied by a monograph. Previous solo shows include Madison Square Park Conservancy, NY, in conjunction with the Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, RI; the NYU Abu Dhabi University Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE; the Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria; the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH; the Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH; the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA; the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX; the Centro de Arte Contemporánea, La Conservera, Spain; the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Al-Hadid received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and BFA from Kent State University. Throughout her career, Al-Hadid has been awarded a United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Sculpture, an Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. She was in residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was most recently named a Lab Grant Resident at Dieu Donné, New York. Al-Hadid's work is collected by major institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Collection ΕΜΣΤ | National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, and the Toledo Museum of Art, amongst others. She serves as a member of the Madison Square Park Conservancy Art Committee, as well as the New York Foundation for the Arts Advisory Council, and was recently inducted into the National Academy of Design. She has previously served on the advisory board of VCU Institute of Contemporary Art, and was a member of the Humanitarian Coalition for USA for UNHCR. She is represented by Olney Gleason, New York.
Speaker on
Women Trailblazing Entrepreneurs in the Art World
Session
21/05/2026
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12:20 - 13:00