Diana Thater

Diana Thater (* 1962 in San Francisco ) is an American artist , curator , writer and educator . Since the early 1990s she has created a pioneering combination of film, video and installation art. She lives and works in Los Angeles , California.

biography

Thater received her bachelor's degree in art history from New York University and her master's of fine arts from the Art Center College of Design.

In March 2004 she opened two retrospectives of her work from 1993–2003 at the same time in the Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Siegen) and the Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany .

Since 2000 Diana Thater has been a guest artist for the Dolphin Project , a non-profit organization that protects whales from slaughter, captivity and abuse.

Her work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum , the Tate Gallery , the Whitney Museum of American Art , the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Walker Art Center .

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Thater's work examines the temporal properties of video and film as she literally expands them in space. She is known for her site-specific installations, in which she creates architectural space through forced interaction with projected images and tinted light - as in "knots + surfaces" (2001) and most recently in her exhibition "Delphine in the St. Stephani Cultural Church (2009)" - manipulated. Thater's main interest is in exploring the relationship between humans and the natural world and the differences between untouched and manipulated nature. Despite concessions to structural film, Thater's reference points are closer to landscape painting. Thater's stated belief is that film and video are not by definition narrative media and that abstraction can and does exist in moving images.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1991 Kunsthaus Graz
1994 Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
1995 Renaissance Society
1996 Salzburg Art Association
1996 Kunsthalle Basel
1997 Walker Art Center
1998 MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles
1998 Museum of Modern Art
2000 Vienna Secession
2001 Dia Center for the Arts
2009 London Natural History Museum
2010 David Zwirner, New York

Group exhibitions (selection)

2006, 1997, 1995 Whitney Biennial
1999 Carnegie International

Awards

1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1996 Étant-donnés Foundation Grant
2005 Guggenheim scholarship
2006 Phelan Award for film and video

literature

Diana Thater, selected works, 1992–1996, Kunsthalle Basel, Kathryn Kanjo, Diana Thater, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Schwabe, 1996
Diana Thater, the best outside is the inside, St. Louis Art Museum, 1999 - 4 pages

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Thater, Diana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American artist, curator, writer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH	1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Francisco