Diana Thater

Born in 1962 in San Francisco, Diana Thater studied art history at New York University, before receiving her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

In 2018, the artist was awarded an Art + Technology Lab Grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Other notable awards and fellowships include a California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2014), as well as the award for artistic innovation from the Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles (2011); the James D. Phelan Award in Film and Video (2006); the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2005); and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1993).

Over the past decade, her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at prominent institutions that include the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2015); San Jose Museum of Art, California (2015); Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2011); Santa Monica Museum of Art, California (2010); Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2009); Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (2004); Dia Center for the Arts, New York (2001); and the Secession, Vienna (2000).

In 2018, a solo presentation of the artist’s work was the inaugural exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston’s Watershed space. In 2015, a comprehensive mid-career survey of Thater’s work, The Sympathetic Imagination, was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and later traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.