Dianna Frid

Email: diannafrid@gmail.com
Website: http://www.diannafrid.net/home.php

I was born in Mexico City and currently live in Chicago. I earned a BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. My teaching experience includes: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago; Visiting Artist, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Chicago; and Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago.

Review

Dianna Frid's ArtStyle Blog review by Darrell Roberts was published in April, 2008.

Grants / Awards

Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, Grant Recipient 2004
Harper-Schmidt Fellowship, The University of Chicago, 2003-2006
MFA Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2003
Trustees Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001-2003
The Canada Council, Grant for Visual Arts, 2001
State of Illinois Artist Roster, Arts in Education Program, 2000-2001
CAAP Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, 2000
The Canada Council, "B" Grant for Visual Arts, 1996, 1997, 1998
The Canada Council, Short-Term Grant, July-Sept. 1995, September-November 1994
The Banff Centre for the Arts, Artist's Residency and Stipend, July-August 1994

Gallery / Exhibitions

Recent / Upcoming Exhibitions:
The Vertical Shadows, Devening Projects + Editions, 3039 West Carroll, Chicago. Gallery talk on April 12th at 1 p.m. The exhibition runs through May 7, 2008 and will be available for viewing on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment.

One-Person Exhibitions and Collaborations:
12 Releases, CROXHAPOX, Gent, Belgium, 2006
12 X 12 / New Artists New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2006
Time and Distance and Bent, National and International Projects, PS1-MOMA, Long Island City, NY, 2005
Crater and Transport, Julia Friedman Gallery, New York, 2005
Carriage (collaboration with Mark Gallay), SubCity Projects, Chicago, 2004
The Field (texts by Stephen Motika), Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago, 2003
Dianna Frid, Esso Gallery, New York, NY, 1999
Dianna Frid, CROXHAPOX, Gent, Belgium, 1998
Gravity (collaboration with Anton Vidokle), Optica, Montreal, 1997
Dianna Frid, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, 1995

Artist’s Statement

I make objects and images that span a wide range of scales and media. These works take the form of artist books and collages, or they function as installations or as discrete two- and three-dimensional pieces.

My works are material responses to existing images, shapes and things in the world. In making objects, I stress the relationship of two-dimensional representation to the three-dimensionality of sculpture and hybrid things. My works are visibly sensuous: I foreground their physicality by fusing the hand-made with formal and thematic concerns.

Wallace Stevens alluded to pressing back on the pressures of reality through the act of imaginative making. I see in my work that aspiration, to press back on existing things through imaginative making and to have that making carry its own authority. This authority alerts us to variations and subtleties that open up the space of reflection. It also alerts us, through materiality, to "the voluptuousness of looking."

I am aware of the tensions that exist between the tools with which the world is described and the world that exists in spite of these tools. I see my work as a way to point to these tensions and to evoke other possible ways of encompassing things and images: ways that include the complexities of desire, contradiction, metaphor, and attention to form and sense experience.

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