Diana Thater
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Born: 1962
Lives: and works Los Angeles
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1984 BA Art History, New York University, New York
1990 MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
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2009
Towner Art Gallery, �Horus, Cast of Falcons�, Eastbourne/UK
Kunsthaus Graz, �Diana Thater�, Graz/AT
2008
David Zwirner, �Here is a text about the world� �, New York/NY
1301 PE, �Diana Thater�, Los Angeles/CA
2007
OSRAM Art Projects / Seven Screen, �Off with their Heads�, Munich/DE
Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, �The Experience of Color: Ann Veronica Janssens & Diana Thater�, Amherst MA
2005
Haunch of Venison, �Perpetual Motion Perfect Devotion�, London/UK
Zwirner & Wirth, �Diana Thater: New Work�, New York NY
David Zwirner, �Continuous Contiguous�, New York NY
1301PE, �Pink Daisies, Amber Room�, Los Angeles CA
2004
Museum f�r Gegenwartskunst Siegen, �Keep the Faith. A Survey Exhibition�, Siegen/DE (travels to Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen/DE)
1301PE, �White is the Color�, Los Angeles CA
ICA, �100 Artists see God�, London/UK
Shaw Tower, �Commissioned Outdoor Sculpture Project�, Vancouver/CDN
2003
Haunch of Venison, �Transcendence is expansion and contraction at the same time�, London/UK
2002
Galleria Emi Fontana, �Bastard Pink�, Milan/IT
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, �Diana Thater�, Paris/FR
2001
DIA Center for the Arts, �Knots + Surfaces�, New York NY
David Zwirner, �The sky is unfolding under you�, New York NY
1301 PE, �The sky is unfolding under you�, Los Angeles CA
2000
Vienna Secession, �Delphine�, Vienna/AT
Museum f�r Gegenwartskunst Siegen, �Broken Circle�, Siegen/DE
1301 PE, �Diana Thater�, Los Angeles CA
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, �Delphine�, Zurich/CH
Galleria Emi Fontana, �The Caucus Race�, Milan/IT
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, �Diana Thater�, Paris/FR
Tensta Konsthall , �Diana Thater�, Sp�nga/SE
1999
The St. Louis Art Museum, �The best outside is the inside�, St. Louis MO
Art Gallery of York University, �The best sense is the non-sense�, Toronto/CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, �The best space is the deep space�, Pittsburgh PA
Patrick Painter, �The Caucus Race�, Santa Monica CA
H&R; Projects, �Diana Thater�, Brussels/BE
1998
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, �Diana Thater: Video Installations�, Boston MA
The Museum of Modern Art, �Projects 64: Diana Thater: The best animals are the flat animals�, New York NY Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, �The best space is the deep space: Time�Based Media 1998-99: Diana Thater�, Oberlin OH
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, �The best animals are the flat animals � the best space is the deep space�, Los Angeles CA
1997
Kunstverein Hamburg, �The individual as a species, the object as a medium. Diana Thater: Selected Works 1992-96�, Hamburg/DE
SITE Santa Fe, �Electric Mind and Recent Works�, Santa Fe NM
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, �Electric Mind and Recent Works�, Dallas TX
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, �Electric Mind and Recent Works�, Amherst MA (travels to The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas/TX, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe/NM)
Walker Art Center, �Diana Thater: Orchids in the Land of Technology� Minneapolis/MN
1996
Portland Art Museum, �Diana Thater; Electric Mind and Recent Works�, Portland OR
Kunsthalle Basel, �The individual as a species, the object as a medium. Diana Thater:
Selected Works
1992-96�, Basel/CH
David Zwirner, �China, Crayons & Molly Numbers 1 through 10�, New York NY
Temporary Contemporary, Gateshead, �The Wicked Witch of the West�, Newcastle/UK
1995
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, �China�, Chicago IL
Centre d�art contemporaine de Thiers, �Creux de l�Enfer�, Thiers/FR
Galerie Schipper & Krome, �Crayons & Molly Numbers 1 through 10�, Cologne/DE
1994
Friesenwall 116a, �Ginger Kittens�, Cologne/DE
Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, �Diana Thater�, Rotterdam/NL
1993
1301, �Abyss of Light�, Santa Monica CA
David Zwirner, �Late and Soon (Occident Trotting)�, New York NY
1992
The Bliss House, �Up the Lintel: Bliss�, Pasadena CA
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, �Up the Lintel�, Santa Monica CA
1991
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, �Dogs and Other Philosophers�, Santa Monica CA
1990
Art Center College of Design, �With/Out, MFA Exhibition�, Pasadena CA
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RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Natural History Museum, �After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions�, London/GB
Project Space, �Wreathing and Writhing�, Leeds/UK
2008
J. Paul Getty Museum, �California Video�, Los Angeles, CA
MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, �Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego�, Sydney/AU
MSCAD, �Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet�, San Diego/CA (travelling to Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley/CA)
Claremont Museum of Art, �Multiverse�, Claremont CA
Project Space Leeds, �Wreathing and Writhing�, Leeds/UK
2007
Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, �L.A. Desire�, Dusseldorf/DE
University Gallery, �Ann Janssens & Diana Thater�, Amherst MA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, �Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling�, La Jolla CA
Festspiel+ 2007, Pinakothek der Moderne and Nationaltheater, �...Drawling and Streching and Fainting in Coils��, Munich/DE (curated by Diana Thater)
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, �Touch My Shadows: New Media from the Goetz Collection in Munich�, Warsaw/PL
Stedelijk Museum, �The Present: The Monique Zajfen Collection�, Amsterdam/NL
Palais Delphinal, �Leitmotifs�, Saint Donat-sur-l�Herbasse/FR
1301PE, �I Don�t Do Nature�, Los Angeles CA
Galleria Emi Fontana, �Elsewhere?�, Milan/IT
Artspace, �After the Situation: Moment Making�, Newton, Auckland/NZ
Orange County Museum of Art, �Imaging and Imagining California Modern�, Newport Beach CA
2006
Hamburger Bahnhof, �Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection�, Berlin/DE
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, �Ballerina in a Whirlpool. Works by Isa Genzken, Richard Jackson, Roman
Signer and Diana Thater from the Hauser & Wirth Collection�, Baden-Baden/DE
Phoenix Kulturstiftung/Sammlung Falkenberg, �Idylle�, Hamburg/DE
Aspen Art Museun, �Four Thursday Nights: Group Dynamics�, Aspen CO
MARCO, �O Momento Suspendido. Colecci�n H&F;�, Vigo/ES
Whitney Museum of American Art, �Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night�, New York NY
Zwirner & Wirth, �Yes Bruce Nauman�, New York NY
International Center of Photography, �Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video�, New York NY
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, �Nature Attitudes�, Vienna/AT
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, �Projections. Beyond Cinematic Space�, Berlin/DE
2005
Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, �Guardami. Percezione del video�, Siena/IT
Centro Cultural Conde Duque, �Fast Forward, Media Art/Sammlung Goetz�, Madrid/ES
Espace EDF-Bazacle, �Printemps de Septembre � Toulouse: Vertiges�, Toulouse/FR
David Zwirner, �Early Work�, New York NY
1301PE, �Art 36 Basel�, Los Angeles CA
O.K Centrum f�r Gegenwartskunst O�, �Die Ordnung der Natur I�, Linz/AT
Main Line Art Center, �Main Line Collects: Distinctive Choices�, Harrisburg PA
Bakersfield College, �Beyond the painted horizon�, Bakersfield CA
Millennium Galleries, �The Real Ideal�, Sheffield/GB
Art Metropole, �Artists� Books, Revisited�, Toronto/CA
Palazzo della Borsa, �Water, Air, Earth, Fire. At the Origins of Life between Art and Science�, Genoa/IT
Oakville Galleries, �Weathervane�, Oakville, Ontario/CA
2004
Museum f�r Kunst und Gewerbe, �Nature ganz Kunst�, Hamburg/DE
The Contemporary Jewish Museum, �100 Artists See God�, San Francisco CA ( travelled to Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach CA; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virgina VA)
MuHKA, �Not Done�, Antwerp/BE
Haunch of Venison, �ANIMALS�, London/GB
Museum der Moderne, �einleuchten�, Salzburg/AT
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/DE
2003
San Diego Museum of Art, �Of Earth and Sky: Elements in Abstraction�, San Diego CA
Museum of Contemporary Art MoCA, �SITINGS: Installation Art 1969-2002�, cur. Paul Shimmel, Los Angeles CA
ZKM Museum f�r Neue Kunst, �Fast Forward: Media Art Sammlung Goetz�, Karlsruhe/DE
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, �Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collections�, Bibao/ES
2002
Mus�e d�Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, �Vid�o topiques. Tours et Retours de L�Art Vid�o�, Strasbourg/FR
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, �Das Tier in mir. Die Mensch-Tier-Verwandtschaft in der zeitgen�ssischen Kunst�, Baden-Baden/DE
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, �Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth�, Zurich/CH
San Jos� 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 (travels to �sterreichsche Galerie Belvedere, Vienna/AT)
2001
J. Paul Getty Museum, �Devices of Wonder: From the World in a box to images on a screen�, Los Angeles CA
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, �Enclosed and Enchanted�, Preston/GB (travelled to Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield/GB)
UCLA Hammer Museum, �Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film�, Los Angeles CA
National Gallery of Canada, �Elusive Paradise�, Ottawa/CDN
Whitney Museum of American Art, �Bitstreams�, New York NY
MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art, �Public Offerings�, Los Angeles CA
Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise, �Wechselstrom�, St. Gallen/CH
The Museum of Modern Art, �Collaborations with Parkett, 1984 to Now�, New York NY (travels to
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London/GB)
David Zwirner, �I love NY�, New York NY
Pomoma College Museum of Art, �Post-Landscape: Between Nature and Culture�, Claremont CA
2000
Carnegie Museum of Art, �Carnegie International 1999/2000�, Pittsburgh PA
Whitney Museum of American Art, �The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000�, New York NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, �Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Film and Video�, Palm Beach FL
Villa Merkel, �Electronic Images: Videokunst 1965-2000�, Esslingen/DE
The Museum of Modern Art, �Enclosed and Enchanted�, Oxford/GB
Orange County Museum of Art, �Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collection�, Newport Beach CA
Art Gallery of Hamilton, �Thinking Space. Selections from the Ann & Marshall Webb Collection�, Hamilton/CN
Museum Villa Stuck, �L.A.-ex�, Munich/DE
Brooke Alexander, �To Infinity and Beyond: Editions for the Year 2000�, New York NY
Arizona State University Art Museum, �Sites around the City: Art and Environment�, Tempe AR
St�dtische Galerie, �Herausforderung Tier�, Karlsruhe/DE
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1991 Artist-in-Residence at the Claude Monet Foundation, Giverny/FR
Lila Acheson-Wallace Foundation, Reader�s Digest and Arts International Award
1993 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, US
1993-2003 Adjunct Faculty, Art Center College of Design MFA Program, Pasadena
1995 Prize at Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju/KR
1998 The International Artist-in-Residence Program, ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio TX
since 1999 Artist-in-Residence for The Dolphin Project, Miami
since 2003 Present Core Faculty, Art Center College of Design MFA Program, Pasadena
2005-2006 Guggenheim Fellow, Simon R. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York
2006 Recipient of the Phelan Award in Film and Video
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Performances & Films
2007
Villa Aurora, �Virtuosic Siblings: Berlin � LA Festival of Film/Art�, Los Angeles CA [itinerary: Goethe Institute, Los Angeles CA; Red Cat, Los Angeles CA]
West of Rome, 1033 Westwood Boulevard, �relay�, a collaboration with T. Kelly Mason, Los Angeles CA
2006
�JUMP�, a collaboration with T. Kelly Mason [itinerary: Tate Modern, London/UK; Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles CA; Whitney Biennale 2006, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY]
1998-2000
ArtPace, �The future that almost wasn�t� [a collaborative performance project with T. Kelly Mason], San Antonio TX (also performed in Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA; Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, Marstall, Munich/DE)
Conferences, Lectures & Public Presentations
2005
Dia Center for the Arts, �Film is Art: The Spiral Jetty�, artist�s lecture by Diana Thater on Robert Smithsons�s film �The Spiral Jetty�, New York NY
2003
International congress concerning the production, presentation and preservation of media arts, �404 Object Not Found: What remains of media art?�, case study of an installation by Diana Thater by Work Group 2, Dortmund/DE
2002
Dia Center for the Arts, �Film is Art: The Spiral Jetty� [artist�s lecture by Diana Thater on Robert Smithson�s film �The Spiral Jetty�], New York NY
Bard College, Panel discussion with Susanne Ghez on the occation of the �Award for Curatorial Excellence�, New York NY
Fulbright-Hays 2002 Group Projects Award, �Ecology, Community Planning, and Social Challenges in Panama� [Residency, Panama City, Panama: July 6 � August 3, 2002]
Santa Monica Museum of Art, �Not Good Enough� [lecture by Diana Thater on the exibition �Art and Film in the Age of Anxiety: Selections freom the 2002 Whitney Biennal�], Santa Monica CA
2001
UCLA Hammer Museum, �Making Time�, Panel discussion, Los Angeles CA
New York Institute for the Humanities, New York University, �Why Contemporary Artists don�t Paint like Ingres� [presentation by Diana Thater as part of an artists response panel at the conference �Art & Optics�, moderated by Lawrence Weschler], New York NY
2000
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, �The Comic Spirit is a Living Thing� [presentation by Diana Thater on a panel discussion in conjuction with the exibition �The Worlds of Nam June Paik�, moderated by John Hanhardt.], New York NY
1999
UC Berkeley, �Art, Technology, and Culture�, Berkeley CA
1998
UCLA Hammer Museum, �Dialogues on Art: Sunshine and Noir�, Panel Discussion, Los Angeles CA
1997
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, �Untitled talk on the M�nster Scupture Project and Documenta 10 as part of the panel �World Cups of Art� [Moderated by Carol McMichael Reese], Los Angeles CA
1996
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, �Untitled talk at �mediawork: the Southern California New Media Working Group��, Los Angeles CA
1994
The Hirsch Farm Project, �Optimism�, Wisconsin WI
Public Projects
2007-2008
Public Artwork for the California Insitute of Technology, Pasadena/CA
LACMA, (PD 6, Best Space 10 � Monitor Edition, Los Angeles/CA
Children�s Museum SD, (Delphine), San Diego/CA
MoCA, �Permanent Collection Show�, Los Angeles/CA
2004-2007
The Colburn School, Los Angeles CA (under construction 2005-2007)
2003-2005
Shaw Tower, Commissioned Outdoor Sculpture Project, Vancouver, British Columbia/CA (permanent installation)
Exhibitions curated by the artist
1999
Salzburger Kunstverein, �A living theatre�, Salzburg/AT (an exibition curated by Diana Thater with works by Joe Mama-Nitzberg, T. Kelly Mason, Andrea Bowers, Jessica Bronson, Sam Durant and Erik Saks)
1997
David Zwirner, �Places that are elsewhere�, New York NY (an exibition curated by Diana Thater with works by Katy Schimert, Peter Campus, Chris Williams, Andrea Bowers, Sam Durant, T. Kelly Mason and Robert Smithson)
1996
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, �Persona�, Chicago IL (curated with Susanne Ghez, travelled to Kunsthalle Basel, Basel/CH)
1996-1998
David Zwirner, �Sampler 2-More Videos from Southern California�, New York NY (exibition curated by Diana Thater, also included in the exhibition �Sunshine & Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960-1997�, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek/DK; Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli/IT; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg/DE; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA)
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