Martha Diamond
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 Museum of Modern Art, 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.
Born 1944, New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
Education
1969
MA, New York University, New York, NY
1964
BA, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Night Lights, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2021
Martha Diamond: 1980–1989, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Independent NY Art Fair with Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2018
Cityscapes, Eva Presenhuber Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Martha Diamond: Broad Strokes, Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY
2016
Recent Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Martha Diamond: Paintings, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2012
Martha Diamond: Bright Brush Paintings, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Martha Diamond: From Three Decades, New York Studio School, New York, NY
2003
G. Watson Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2001
G. Watson Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
1994
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
1988
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Martha Diamond: Prints, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1986
Martha Diamond: Small Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Martha Diamond: Monotypes 1982 – 1984, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1983
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1981
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Martha Diamond: Small Paintings, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1978
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1976
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
Select Group Exhibitions
2022
Painting in New York: 1971–83, curated by Ivy Shapiro, Karma, New York, NY
Painting as Is II, curated by Heidi Hahn and Tim Wilson, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
Artists on the Bowery Part 3, Westwood Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Friends & Family, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
On the Bowery, curated by Loren Munk, Zürcher Gallery, New York , NY
2020
In Her Hands, curated by David Salle, Skarstedt, New York, NY
2019
Downtown Painting, curated by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman, New York, NY
2017
SITE/SIGHT, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
2016
I Beam U Channel, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Nice Weather, curated by David Salle, Skarstedt, Gallery North, New York, NY
Paint Heads, curated by Charles Marburg, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Dedalus Foundation and Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Interior Visions: Selections from the Collection by Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
2010
That Is Then. This Is Now., Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY
Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Nagoya / Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, JP
Decameron: Celebrating Ten Years of Exhibitions Curated by David Cohen, New York Studio School, New York, NY
2009
Primitif Compliqué, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, BE
2008
Bearden to Ruscha: Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
2007
Cowgirls 2: The Eclectic All-Woman Show, Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY
2005
The Art of Screenprint, Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, Detroit, MI
Vistas, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
2004
The Anxious Image, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2002
Works on Paper Published by Stewart and Stewart, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
New Spring Faculty, Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA
Series, University of Colorado Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO
Series, The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, NH
2001
Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letter, New York, NY
1999
G. Watson Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
1998
Inventing the American Landscape: A Dialogue with the Visual World, The North Carolina Museum of Art, NC
1997
Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
U.S. Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Havana, CU
1996
New Faculty, Harvard University, VES Department, Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA
1995
New Faculty, Harvard University, VES Department, Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA
1994
New York, New York - Recent Cityscapes, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Red Windows, Barney New York, Christie’s, New York, NY
1992
Urban Realities: Contemporary Portraits of New York, Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University, CT
Singular and Plural, Recent Accessions, Drawing and Prints 1945 – 1991, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Martha Diamond, Louise Fishman, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman, and Bernard Piffaretti: Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Emerging New York Artists: An Exhibit from the Collection of Phil Schrader, University of Nebraska at Omaha, College of Fine Arts, Omaha, NE
1991
Academy - Institute Invitational Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Prints by Martha Diamond and James DeWoody, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Urban Icons, Klarfield - Perry Gallery, New York, NY
Inclusion / Exclusion: City Lights 1991, Levinson / Kane Gallery, Boston, MA
Women Artists, MiraMar Gallery, Sarasota, FL
1990
Intaglio Printing and the 1980s, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ
1990
Invitational Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
A Little Night Music: New York in the Dark, Lintas Worldwide, New York, NY
Some Seventies Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1989
1989 Whitney Biennial of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The City / The Spirit, Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY
New York at Night, Schweinfurth Memorial Arts Center, Auburn, NY
Urban Images, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Landscape, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Expo 1989, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
Two Boliou Alumnae: The Art of Martha Diamond and Donna Dennis, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
American Painting, Beyond the Death of Painting, (American Imagist and Abstract Work), In association with USSR Artists Union, Kuznetsky Most Exhibition Hall, Moscow, RU
1988
Selections from the Collection, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Transcendent, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
1987
Urban Images: Scenes of the City, A.P. Giannini Gallery, Bank America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
Urban Visions: The Contemporary Artist and New York, Adelphi University, University Center Gallery, Garden City, NY
1986
Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
American Cityscape, Frank Bernarducci Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Art of the 1970s and 80s, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
One of a Kind: Monotypes from the Collection, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
Night Lights: 19th and 20th Century American Nocturnes, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Recent Monotypes by Richard Bosman, Martha Diamond, Jasper Johns and Michael Mazur, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Places Here and Now, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
1984
METAMANHATTAN, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, Wall Street, New York, NY
Young American Artists from Brooke Alexander, Inc., Trisolini Gallery of Ohio University, Athens, GA
Night Paintings, Florence Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA
Expressionist and New-Expressionist Graphics, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, The Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Expressionist and Neo-Expressionist Graphics, Wilson Arts Center, Harley School, Rochester, NY
Contemporary Triptychs, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center, Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Expressionism, Brainerd Art Gallery, State University College of Arts and Sciences, Potsdam, NY
1983
A Celebration of American Women Artists: Part II - The Recent Generation, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
Richard Bosman, Martha Diamond, Ken Goodman, Richard Mock, Judy Rifka, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Brave New Work: Recent American Paintings and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The American Artist as Printmaker, The 23rd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Night Paintings, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Turbulences, American Center, Paris, FR
New York, New Work: Contemporary Painting from New York Galleries, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY
Nocturne, Siegel Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Monotypes, State University of New York at Purchase, NY
Four New York Painters, Signet Arts, St. Louis, MO
Architecture in Contemporary Prints, Pratt Graphic Center, Brooklyn, NY
Self – Portraits, Linda Ferris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982
Visiting Artists Invitational, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
50 National Women in Art, Edison Community College of Fine Art, Fort Myers, FL
Landscape/Cityscape, Jerry Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
1981
Art at Work, General Mills Art Collection, Minneapolis, MN
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Exchanges III, Arts for Living Center, New York, NY
Paintings, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Almost Abstract, Boston College Art Gallery, Newton, MA
New York/New Work, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
Drawing of a Different Nature, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
Diamond, Lieberman, Lipski: Recent Works, Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
1979
New Publications / Acquisitions, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
New York Artists: New Sensibilities, 22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY
Sixth British International Print Biennale, Bradford Art Galleries and Museums, UK
New Work by Martha Diamond, Margo Margolis, Rodney Ripps, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1978
Thick Paint, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
New Editions, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
Critics' Choice, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1976
Paintings ‘75, ‘76, ‘77, Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville, NY
New Abstract Objects, Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Arts, Buffalo, NY
1974
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: 1964-1974, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1974
Six Artists, Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY
1973
Contemporary Reflections 1972-73, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Collections
Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AU
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Chase Bank Manhattan, New York, NY
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN
Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of the City of New York, NY
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Archives for Printmaking Studios, NJ
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, DE
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
