Artist Statement
Nancy Diamond’s work offers a glimpse into an interior world. Her paintings shift between the micro and macro, transforming her vision into impressions that are precise in detail and yet full of abstracted and hallucinatory alterations. She describes her work as a “repurposing of natural forms and patterns in order to build a highly sensitized terrain.” The skyward gaze in her current work is in part the result of seeing the cycle from sunrise to sunset each day from her studio wIndow.
Nancy Diamond was born in New York City and now lives and works in upstate NY. She received a BFA in painting and film from Rhode Island School of Design. For the past 25 years, she has been exhibiting her paintings and drawings in the US and abroad. She has received grants and awards from organizations including The National Endowment for the Arts and the Marie Walsh Sharpe/Walenta space program residency.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 • Spring Show, abstract and nature based work, group show, Art Sales and Research, Clinton Corners, NY
2023 • Inside Voice, Saira McClaren and Nancy Diamond, 2-person show, Bushel Collective, Delhi, NY
2023 • Force of Nature, group show, MAMA Gallery, Winnetka, IL
2022 • Nancy Diamond, In The Ether, solo show, Tayloe Pigott Gallery, Jackson, WY
2022 • I exist as I am, Paintings by Nancy Diamond and Hans Hofmann, 2-person show, Tayloe Pigott Gallery, Jackson, WY
2021 • Further In Summer Than the Birds, 4-person show, Platform Project Space, curated by Jennifer Coates, Brooklyn, NY
2021 • Many Portals, group show, curated by Melissa Thorne and Kelli Cain, Half Hidden, Delhi, NY
2020 • Society for Contemporary Art Collectors Sale, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018 • Earth Eye: Works on Paper, solo show, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2016 • Project Room, solo show, Kabinett & Kammer, Andes, NY
2016 • The Persistent Nature of Urgency: Works on Paper, group show curated by Jeff Quinn and Lowell Boyers, New York, NY
2014 • Enticing Luminosity, Lesley Heller Workspace, group show curated by Olive Ayhens, New York, NY
2013 • Unhinged, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 • Williamsburg 2000, curated by Larry Walczak, Art101, Brooklyn, NY
2003 • Drawing into Painting: Nancy Diamond, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Al Taylor, 3-person show, Galerie Charles Schumann Gallery,
Munich, Germany
2002 • Artists to Artists, ACE Gallery, Space Program Artists, NYC
2001 • Humanoid, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC
2001 • Figstract Explosionism, curated by Tom Burckhardt, Bridgewater, Lustberg, Blumenfeld, NYC
2001 • Humanoid, DiverseWorks, Houston,TX
2000 • Collector’s Choice, Selected by Richard Ekstract, Exit Art/The First World, NYC
2000 • Selections, Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY
2000 • Abstract Paintings on Paper, Jay Grimm Gallery, NYC
1999 • Natural Origins, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NYC
1999 • Packing a Punch, Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY
1999 • Humanoid, The Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 • Humanoid, Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 • The Press of My Foot Springs a Hundred Affections, Curated by Byron Kim, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1997 • The Art Exchange Show, NYC
1997 • Suture, Curated by Annie Herron, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1996 • Nancy Diamond, Project Room, solo show, Black & Herron Space, NYC
1996 • The Art Exchange Show, NYC
1996 • Birds and Bees, Esso Gallery, NYC
1996 • Pet Paintings, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 • Biennial Exhibition, Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY