Shari Diamond

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Shari Diamond (born 1961) is a queer American feminist artist and educator. Diamond uses they/them gender pronouns. [1] Diamond was born in Miami Beach, Florida and earned an M.A. in Photography from New York University / International Center of Photography. They currently live in Newburgh, New York.

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Career and artistic contributions

Diamond’s work incorporates photography and digital technology and explores difference as it relates to social, sexual, and political constructs. They have had artist residencies at Blue Mountain Center, Saltonstall Arts Colony, [2] Studio Kura, [3] and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Diamond’s work is in the permanent collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art [4] and in private collections.

Selected exhibitions

Diamond's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, including Art Projects International, [14] Gallery at Hastings on the Hudson, [15] Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Westbeth Art Gallery. [16]

Publications

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