Diana Chire

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Diana Chire is a Los Angeles-based Somali artist and director who first received national attention when she presented herself nude in her exhibit at the 2015 Frieze Art Fair in London. [1] [2] [3] [4] Her art themes feature gender, sexuality and the nature of racial identity. [5]

Biography

Chire was born in Somalia, and moved to London, England, when she was five. [6] [7] She studied at Westminster University. [1] She is the editor and publisher of arts newspaper She-Zine. [8]

Chire is known for her performance artworks that focus on black female identity, exposing the gender imbalances in the art world, [9] and for using her own body as a medium. [1] [3] [6] [10] She shaved her head in 2016, explaining that as she became more comfortable with using her body as a medium, she felt she no longer needed to wear weaves or straighten her hair to be beautiful. [7] She stitched her weave onto pillowcases. [11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lawrence, Vanessa (7 March 2017). "How British Artist Diana Chire Uses Her Body as a Feminist Medium". W Magazine.
  2. ↑ "An Interview with the Video Artist and Curator Diana Chire in her Hackney Studio, London". Arteviste. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Diana Chire invite les artistes femmes à se réapproprier leur corps". www.iggymagazine.com (in French). 23 October 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "TAKE! EAT!". SUITCASE Magazine. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Women Artists by Simone Steenberg". Vogue.it (in Italian). 12 July 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  6. 1 2 "Artist Diana Chire on listening to black women's rage - Notion Magazine". Notion Magazine. 7 December 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  7. 1 2 "This artist shaved her head to get back to her roots". Vice.com. 22 June 2017. Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  8. ↑ GQ. "Jeff Koons' Louis Vuitton bags are like marmite" . Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  9. ↑ "The guerilla exhibition promoting women artists on the doorstep of Frieze". Vice.com. 7 October 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  10. ↑ "Who is Diana Chire?". Coeval Magazine. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  11. ↑ "This artist shaved her head, then stitched her weave onto pillowcases". Lost At E Minor. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2018.


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