DIANE
KATSIAFICAS
801
Washington Ave. North #121, Minneapolis, MN 55401, USA 1-612-659-0781
PO
Box 6784 19009, Rafina, GREECE 30-22940-76684
selected
work: http://dianekatsiaficas.com
Education:
1974-76
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, M.F.A. Painting
1972-74
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, M.A.T. Art Education
1971-72
Camberwell School of Art, London, England
1964-68
Smith College, Northampton, B.A. Chemistry
Selected
One-Person Exhibitions/ Installations
2008 Evidence,
Hellenic Centre, London, UK
Acquisitions
and Commodities, Dodeca Cultural Center, Montevideo, Uruguay
2007 A Traveler's
Readings, Bezesteni Market, 19th International Photography Exhibition
and Symposium, Thessaloniki, Greece
2005 A
Traveler's Readings, Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Migrations, Holter Museum of Art,
Helena, Montana
2004 An
allegory of olives, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
2002
Migrations, Diana Gallery, Athens, Greece
2001 visualizing
the instincts of migration, American Ccnter, Alexandria, Egypt
1999 Ordinary Intimacies, Rockford
College Art Gallery, Rockford, Illinois,
1997 Dressing
Room and From_____ to_____, Collaborative Installation with
students, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1996 praise,
Thema Gallery, Athens, Greece
1995 Secrets and
Tangles, mixed media installation with Tom Rose; Tweed Museum of Art,
University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN ; 1994, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
1993
Common Grounds, Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN
1992 Laments, St. John's College, Sante Fe, New Mexico
1991 No Garbage Here; Evmaros
Gallery, Athens, Greece; Mass College of Art, Boston, Mass; Municipal Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
1990 Mirrors,
Masks and Simulations, American Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
1987 Homage
to the Lost Child, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Remaindered,
University of Wisconsin- Stout, Menomonie, WI
1986 Images
of Passage, Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
Portage,
MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Calipered
Traverse, Fiberworks, Berkeley, CA
1984 Seattle
Art Museum, Seattle, WA
University
of Nevada, Reno, NV and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Into
the Whirlwind, Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2009University of Minnesota Art Faculty Exhibit @ St.
Cloud State University, St Cloud, MN
2008
Hand to Hand, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
(Invitational group)
6th
Minnesota National Print Biennial, Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
(juried)
Silent Dialogues.
Multimedia Portraits Throughout Time, The American College of Greece. Athens, GR.
Megakles Rokales, curator. (group)
2007 Quiet
Time/ Love's Labour, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota
(participant & curator)
Fashion Statements: The Fine Art
of Faux Apparel, Beard Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Earth, Air,
Fire, Water,
Firogia Monastery, Sifnos, Greece (Sifnos Potter's Union)
also 2005, 2000, 1999
collaborations among artists and traditional potters
Manifestations
of Contemporary Art",
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2006
9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii
Art Gallery, Honolulu; international traveling exhibition 2006-2008
2005
Memory as Metaphor, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota (3 person)
Quiet Time, 18th St. Art Gallery, Santa Monica, California (4 person)
2004
Quiet Time, Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, Illinois (4 person)
56th Arrowhead Biennial Exhibition, Duluth Art Institute. Duluth, MN. (juried)
2003
Art Moves, Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (large group)
2002 Tzedakah,
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (3rd prize/purchase)
2001
Minnesota National Print Biennial, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN (purchase prize)
2000
shearing, an installation for Hair Stories, MAEP gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
7th
International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu; international traveling exhibition 2000-2002
1999 Negotiating
Traditions: works on/of paper, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (5 person)
Botanica: Contemporary
art and the world of plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth and national traveling exhibition 1999-2001
Biographies of Place for Mapping the
Difference, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece;1996 I-Space Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1998 Ordinary Intimacies, for Essential
Bonds; Melina Mercouri Cultural Center of Athens; Dimitria festival of
Thessaloniki, Makridi Gallery, curated group
1997 6th
International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu; traveling exhibition 1997-1999
1996 Confronting Cancer
Through Art, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of PA, Philadelphia
McKnight Foundation
Fellowship Exhibition, imagine a world without winter, Minneapolis
College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota National Print Biennial,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,(juror's award)
1995 Se
Bashku (Together), Tirane, Albania: National Gallery of Art
1994 An Unknown Territory: The Art and
Architecture of Albania in a Balkan Context, Katherine
Nash Gallery, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, (curator and exhibitor)
1993 Appearances: A
Mother/Daughter Dialogue in "Interfaced: Art and
Technoculture",
Evergreen State College
Gallery, Olympia, WA
1990 Greek
Artists and Computers, Evmaros Gallery, Athens, Greece
Apocalyptic
Visions, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa
1989
Explorations in Handmade Paper, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA
1987 Tolerable
Doses of Awareness in "PAPER 88" (i). Kohler Arts Center,
Sheboygan, WI
1986 Paper Now: Bent, Molded and Manipulated. Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, OH
Large
Scale Works in Paper. Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
1985 Sun
Valley Center Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
1984 University
of Indiana, Terre Haute, IN
Selected
Collaborations:
1999- present collaborative work with
potters Yiannis and Nikos Lembesis; Sifnos, Greece
2004 a-morality
cocktail, an Arts Quarter collaboration among faculty and students in
music, theatre, dance and the visual arts, Regis Center for Art, University of
Minnesota
2003
there
is a field,
collaborative installations with Sonja Kuftinec and U of MN theatre students,
Rarig Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
2002 Travel Home,
collaborative, multidisciplinary performance by students in Arts and Dance
courses. co-ordinated by Matt Jenson and Diane Katsiaficas, Nov. 23rd-24th,
Barbara Barker Center for Dance, Minneapolis, MN
New Collaborations in
the Arts Quarter: Migrations, collaboration with choreographer Matt Jenson,
Barbara Barker Center for Dance, U of MN, Mpls,
Selected
Commissions:
2004 drawing,
"Home Sweet Home Again", Public Housing Fund, Minneapolis, MN (www.fhfund.org)
2003 Cover
for Blood Sisters, a novel by Valerie Miner, University of Michigan
Press
1998 Goethe
Institute, Seattle, WA; wall installation
1996 Fulbright
Foundation Office, Thessaloniki, Greece. mixed media wall installation
1997 Suite
of drawings for the cover of the novel, Rainy Lake, by Mary Rockcastle,
Grey Wolf Press
Selected
Awards
2009 Imagine
Fellowship, University of Minnesota
2008 Faculty
Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota
2007,
2006, 2005 Nominated for Morse Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of
Minnesota
1999 McKnight Foundation Interdisciplinary Artist Fellowship
1995 McKnight
Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship
1990-91 Fulbright Scholar, Artist in Residence, Greece
1980 U.S.
Patent for Recreational Structure (#4,189,149)
1977 DAAD
Fellowship, Painting, Berlin, Germany
Selected
Publications
Evidence, exh. cat, Hellenic Centre, London, England,
2008
Cadillac Cicatrix, Issue two, Winter
2008. Cover image and frontispiece.
Uncensored songs: a
tribute to Sam Abrams.Cadillac Cicatrix, Issue one, Summer 2007
19th
International Photography Exhibition, exh. cat., Thessaoniki Museum of Photography,
Greece
Andrikopoulou,
Eleni. 19th Photography Meeting: Travelers and other Histories
(in Greek),Makedonia, May 13,2007,
p.14
Quiet
Time/ Love's Labour,
exh. cat, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, 2007
9th
International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, exh. cat. University of Hawaii
Art Gallery, Honolulu, 2006.
Geer,
Suvan. 'Quiet Time at 18th St. Arts Center", Artweek, April 2005,
Vol.36, issue 3. pgs. 19, 20
Sotiropoulou,
Iota. Stn.skia
tis elias, Angelioforos. Jan.17, 2004 (in Greek) Kosmidou,
Zoe. The Power of Visual Logos: Greek Women Artists. Athens:
International Center for the Arts and Nature, 2003: 47, 55, 56,132-33.
Art Moves, exh. cat., University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN 2003 (publication coordinator and exhibitor)
Hemmings, Jessica.
"Hair and Contemporary Fiber", Craft Arts International, No.
57, 2003:113-115.
Fallon, Michael. A
Sense of Being in Transit. Fiberarts, Vol.26, No.5 (March/April 2000):
53-57.
Silberman,
Rob, http://www2.artsmia.org/wiki/index.php/Essay:_Hair_Stories,
2000
Selected
Residencies/Visiting Artist Positions:
2008
Dodeca Cultural Center, Montevideo, Uruguay
2005
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
Partners in America, Montevideo, Uruguay
1999
University of Hawaii/Manoa, Oahu, HI
1998
Haystack School of Crafts, Maine
1995
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
1993
Evergreen College, Olympia, WA
1991
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; St. John's College, Sante Fe, NM
Selected Public Collections:
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; City of
Seattle, WA; City of Renton, WA; City of Tacoma, WA; Frederick Weisman Art
Museum, Minneapolis, MN; Fulbright Program, Athens & Thessaloniki, Greece;
King County Art in Public Places Collections, WA; Minneapolis Institute of Art,
Minneapolis, MN; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece;
Municipal Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece; Museum of Photography,
Thessaloniki, Greece; University of Hawaii, Hilo; University of Puget Sound,
Tacoma, WA; Safeco Insurance Company, Seattle, WA; Seattle Art Museum, WA;
Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Target Center, Minneapolis, MN; USA TODAY, Washington,
DC; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Washington State Art in Public Places
Collection; Yuma Art Center, AZ
Academic
Appointments:
1985-present University of Minnesota,
Department of Art, Minneapolis, MN;
1990-present: Professor;
1985-1990:Associate Professor
