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Lives and works in Brooklyn
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS/PERFORMANCES
2024
(upcoming) Emergency 24, A Day Out For the Curious, presented by Word of Warning and Contact, Manchester, UK
2022
The Ivory Tower and the Open Worlds, Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY
One Minute Solos, presented by Mobius, Cambridge, MA
Performance Art Open, Bergen, Norway
Birthdayarama, Celebrating Linda Mary Montano, 21 hours of online performance and community
2021
Moving Images: pause…restart, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA
Artists vs Pipeline, performances and fundraiser, Bergen Community Garden, Brooklyn, NY
Imagined Performance Art Storytime, collaboration with IV Castellanos, Para\\el Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Darkest Before Dawn, Art In a Time of Uncertainty, The KuBe, Beacon, NY
2019
Scrapbook (or, Why Can’t We Live Together), Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Diane’s Circus: Here Are Lions, Brooklyn, NY
Esther Neff, Leili Huzaibah, Diane Dwyer, Para\\el Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY
Hallway Performances, curated by Shawn Escarciga, Brooklyn, NY
2018
A Year at The Ear, Brooklyn, NY
Civic Reflex Reflejo Cívico, curated by @BIPAF and Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Satellite Art Show, Miami, FL
The Blue Rose Presents: Inertia, The Ear, Brooklyn, NY
Night Sandwich, Performancy Forum, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY
Swell and Edge, works by Erin Treachy and Diane Dwyer, Reservoir Art Space, Ridgewood, NY
Performance Anxiety, Chinatown Soup, New York, NY
2016
In the Deep, Performanx, hosted at the Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
Interior Interruptions, Bullet Space, New York, NY
Outside/Inside, performance art event, Georges Island, Boston Harbor, Boston, MA
2015
Itinerant Performance Art Festival, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
The Great American Performance Art Festival, collaboration with Alexis Blair Penney, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Performing Animals, MINY Media Center by IFP, Brooklyn, NY
2014
WATER! @detroitcontemporary, Detroit, MI
Emergency Visibility, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY
Fusion New York, New York, NY
2013
Diane’s Circus Homemade Superstar Frontier Land, Brooklyn, NY
NightScreen, Monster Truck, Dublin, Ireland
Exhibition Game, Small Black Door, Ridgewood, NY
Cinethesia Feminist Film Festival, Varsity Center for the Arts, Carbondale, Il
Decenter, www.decenterarmory.com, digital component of Decenter: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2012
Don’t Worry, America!, collaboration with DBilly and Nathan Manuel, Javits Center, New York, NY
Human Animal, MIA screening series, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Artscape, Baltimore, MD
Diane’s Circus Homemade Cacophony of Manly Desires, Brooklyn, NY
2011
The Engine Room Exhibition, Morley Gallery, The Engine Room Festival and Conference celebrating Cornelius Cardew, Morley College, London, England
In and Out of the Ocean, performances for International Migrants Day, Brooklyn, NY and Killiney, Ireland
Street Swimming, Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
4th International Festival of Video Art, Camaguey, Cuba
Diane’s Circus Homemade Midway Extravaganza, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Off The Strip, The Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, NV
Flux, produced by Flux Projects, Atlanta, GA
Diane’s Circus Homemade Burlesque Show, Brooklyn, NY
Diane’s Circus, in process, www.dianescircus.com, collaboration with Tyler Campbell
I’m With You, subway action, New York, NY
2009
KIDS Has Some Work to Do, K.I.D.S., Kindness and Imagination Development Society, and Flux Factory, New York, NY
Electric KIDS Performance Exchange, between Sofia Underground Performance Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria and K.I.D.S. in NYC.
A Set of Directions for Making Something, Grotto Gallerie, Brooklyn, NY
Standing Still / Moving Fast, subway action, New York, NY
The Tillamook Cheddar Mid-Career Retrospective, The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
2008
In the Loop, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred NY
My Yard Our Message, participating artist, project by Scott Sayre, supported by mnartists.org & Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MM
2007
The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe, apexart, New York, NY
Coney Island Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Diane The American Swimmer Trophy Case, Niche Gallery, MCC, Middlebury, CT
2006
WPA/Corcoran, Experimental Media Series, Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Swim/Meet, performance, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2005
IV Salon De Arte Digital, www.salondeartedigital.com, Venezuela
Dreaming of a More Better Future, Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland Art Institute, Cleveland, OH
2004
Present Simple Tense, www.webart.cg.yu, Atelier Dado, Montenegro National Museum
Portraits of Tillie, Tillie LTD, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Project 2004, collaboration with T. Cheddar, Gallery Beaulieu, Gent, Belgium
In Praise of Folly: The Don Quixote Project, Peculiar Works Projects, New York, NY
OutVideo, National Center for Contemporary Art/Ekaterinburg Branch, Ekaterinburg, Russia
VI International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium, Havana, Cuba www.artedigitalcuba.cult.cu
Kunstvlaai 5 Festival, collaboration with T. Cheddar, Amsterdam, Netherlands
CURATORIAL PRACTICES AND INVESTIGATIONS
cloyingPARLOR and Diane’s Circus
Since 2010, I have used my home/studio as a site for the exploration of public/private space. I have offered my space for artists to use for video shoots, studio visits, itinerant housing, meetings, and celebrations, at no cost. Beginning with Diane’s Circus and continuing on with cloyingPARLOR, I have invited the public into my home for large and small scale performances, exhibitions, and discussions. All programing is free.
cloyingPARLOR, that public/private space
2019
March 29: The Special Dinner With Friends, Celebrating the art of Iliana Emilia Garcia
January 6: Epiphany, performance by Macy Rodman
2018
December 1:Pop Up! curated by Courtney Childress, project with Jim Clark’s SVA graduate students
July 28: Summer Hobnob
2017
Dec 2: Veronica Peña, Hector Canonge, Shawn Escarciga, Jacob Cohen
Nov 26: Esther Neff & Kaia, Nabeela Vega, Kuldeep Singh
Jan 6: Sasha Dobson
2016
Oct 2: Marita Isabel Solberg and Niña Yhared, performances
July 12: And What Will We Do When We Get There, performance by Geraldo Mercado
June 25: Cat Dog Jesus God, paintings by Michael Caines
Two Dogs: Spaghetti Style, performance by Lucy Balls and Amber Alert
May 21: Feast of Fools, works by Susanne Stroebe
Super Villian, performance by Voltron BLK
April 8: Hector Canonge: Tautology of Dreams, performance
April 2: I_to, exhibition and performances, Yen Ting Chung and Tomoe Tsutsumi
Jan 6: Epiphany, performances by Diane Dwyer, Chris White, Sasha Dobson, Huisi He, Image Object
2015
Nov 28: Pop Up Performance Night, Diane Dwyer, Bossa Brothers, Titi Galeyn & Rien Bauwens, Macy Rodman
June 6: Syntax Lies, Todd Fink, Natasha Sharymova, and dan Waller, curated by Nikita Vishnevskiy
May 2: Her History Dilemma, Mary Younkin, series curated by Susanne Stroebe
April 15: Night Drawing, installation by Ian Gerson
March 14: Her History Dilemma, Adrienne Reynolds and Erin Treachy, curated by Susanne Stroebe
Feb 28: Her History Dilemma, Loretta Lomanto and Kim Devaney, curated by Susanne Stroebe
Jan 6: Epiphany, performances by Macy Rodman, Tristan Brown, Jack Raymond, Alexis Penney
2014
Dec 6: 12 Hours, curatorial project/group show with Jim Clark’s SVA graduate students
Nov 8: cloyingPARLOR inaugural public event, performance by Macy Rodman
DIANE’S CIRCUS… the greatest show in my apartment
2019 Diane’s Circus: Here Are Lions (curated by Macy Rodman and Diane Dwyer)
Damali Abrams, Ina Archer, Avenue aka Mr Truelove, Church, Matthew De Leon, Kim Devaney, Diane Dwyer, Shawn Escarciga, David Ian Bellow Griess, Kyoung Eun Kang, Thea Little, Kat Lloyd, Loretta Lomato, Brittany Maldonado, Macy Rodman, Kuldeep Singh, Suzanne Stroebe, Zac Thompson
2013 Diane’s Circus Homemade Superstar Frontier Land, Brooklyn, NY
Salley May and Jennifer Miller, Lawrence Graham Brown, Go!PushPops, Macy Rodman, Lucy Balls, Chris Tyler, Bryan Rodriguez, Jane Hsu, Ina Archer, Coco Rose, Halcyon, Meg Browning, Suzanne Stroebe and Caitlin Rueter, Diane Dwyer, Joaquin Cotler
2012 Diane’s Circus Homemade Cacophony of Manly Desires, Brooklyn, NY
Macy Rodman, Matthew De Leon, Justin Hicks, Tommy D Naked Man, DJ Jessamess, Jorge Fuentes, Meg Browning, Tit’n’Twat, Diane Dwyer, Ina Archer, Mary Younkin, Nicole Rincon
2011 Diane’s Circus Homemade Midway Extravaganza, Brooklyn, NY
Laura Napier, Sterling Oblivion, Jen Kwok, Stephanie Diamond, Laurel Jay Carpenter, Dianna Johnson, Artichoke Dance, Gent Treadly, Sasha Dobson and Trevor Dunn, Bowman Hastie, Aaron Duesing, Matthew De Leon, Diane Dweyr
2010 Diane’s Circus Homemade Burlesque Show, Brooklyn, NY
Bunny Rogers, Diane Dwyer, Dusty Pouche, Sasha Dobson and Trevor Dunn, Bowman Hastie, Lessie Askew, Dianna Johnson, Laurel Jay Carpenter, Artichoke Dance, Joaquin Cotler, Greg Keorner, Abou Lion Diarra, Craig Dreyer, Adam Kee
RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
Puffin Foundation Grant 2022
Parsons Part-time Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant 2021
Para\\el Performance Space Residency, 2019
Ora Lerman Trust Residency, 2014
Blue Mountain Center Residency, 2013
Parsons Part-time Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant 2011
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant 2010
Rema Hort Mann Grant Nominee 2009
Honorable Mentions (5$ each) 1000 $ Page Contest
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nota Bene with @postuccio [viii], Art Speil, 2019
(https://artspiel.org/nota-bene-with-postuccio-viii/)
Emergency Index, Volumes 2011 through 2017, Various Contributors, Sophia Cleary
& Zoe Guttenplan, founding editor: Yelena Gluzman, Ugly Duckling Press, NY 2012-18
Artist Feature with Diane Dwyer, by Quinn Dukes, Performance Is Alive, 2018
(https://www.performanceisalive.com/blog/artist-feature-with-diane-dwyer-official-climate-change-response-team)
Top Ten Artists Now, by Katie Cercone, Revolt Magazine, Issue 5, 2015
“Interview Telephone,” by Wendy Vogel, …might be good, 2010
(http://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/index.php/interview/index/149/76)
“DIY Diane Brings Circus To Life At Home,” by Suzanne Stroebe, Brooklyn The Borough, Nov. 2010
(http://www.brooklyntheborough.com/2010/11/diy-diane-brings-circus-to-life-at-home/)
Guest Blogger Diane Dwyer, Blog Las Vegas, Contemporary Arts Center, 2010
(http://lasvegascac.blogspot.com/2010/11/guest-blogger-diane-dwyer.html)
Portrait of the Dog as a Young Artist, by F. Bowman Hastie, Sasquatch Press, 2006
“Conversation with Diane Dwyer, Phillip Buntin, Carey MacDougall, Todd
Jokl: David Opdyke: Small World,” NY Arts Magazine, February 2002
“Matter as Protagonist’, or not…,” by Judy Burke, New Haven Register, 2002
“A Bit of Theater History Dies a Fantastic Death,” by Jack Anderson, New York Times, 2000
EDUCATION
I am currently a part-time Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design.
MFA, Teaching Fellowship, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2003
BFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA 2001
