Nana Wolke

Martha Diamond (b. 1944, New York, NY) received a BA from Carleton College in Minnesota in 1964 and an MA from New York University in 1969, the same year she moved into her loft on the Bowery. In the 1970s, she exhibited in group exhibitions at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, and The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL. Diamond was represented by Brooke Alexander Gallery from 1976 to 1985 and in 1988, mounted her first museum solo exhibition at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME. In 1989, three large-scale paintings were included in The Whitney Biennial, curated by Richard Armstrong, John G. Hanhardt, Richard Marshall, and Lisa Phillips. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, she was represented by the legendary Robert Miller Gallery and in 2004, The New York Studio School organized a retrospective titled Martha Diamond: From Three Decades. Recent solo exhibitions in New York include Night Lights at Magenta Plains (2022); Martha Diamond: 1980-1989 at Magenta Plains (2021); Cityscapes at Eva Presenhuber (2018); Martha Diamond: Broad Strokes, at Harper’s Books (2017); and Recent Paintings at Alexandre Gallery (2016). Recent group exhibitions in New York City include Painting in New York: 1971-83, curated by Ivy Shapiro at Karma (2022), In Her Hands, curated by David Salle at Skarstedt (2020), and Downtown Painting, curated by Alex Katz at Peter Freeman (2019). Her work is in the permanent collection of numerous institutions, including MOMA, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, among others. Diamond lives and works in New York, NY.