RESUME

DIANE MARSH 

After receiving a grant for young figurative artists from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Diane Marsh moved to NYC.  She was invited by artist Harmony Hammond to participate in an exhibition featuring artists Ida Applebroog, Joyce Kosloff, Miriam Shapiro & others titled, "Homework: The Domestic Environment Reflected in Work by Contemporary Women Artists". After receiving an artist residence grant in New Mexico from the RAIR Foundation (1980) She returned to NYC(1981). The Frumkin/Struve Gallery represented her early works which were exhibited alongside Phillip Pearlstein, Robert Arneson, and others. In 1985 Marsh was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant, from jurors Pat Steir, Audrey Flack, and Joan Brown.

Marsh moved to New Mexico, and had solo exhibitions in Denver, Santa Fe, and Los Angeles throughout the 1990’s. She moved briefly to Lincoln, Nebraska and received a Nebraska State Arts Council Grant (2001). In 2002 she received a second “year-long” RAIR Foundation Grant. In 2003 she was awarded a Kittridge Foundation Grant. In 2017 Lucy R. Lippard wrote the forward for the catalogue, “Diane Marsh: Paintings 1986-2017.”

Recent solo exhibitions include “Alcoves 2020” at The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe (2019), “Diane Marsh: A Merging of Worlds” at Western NM University in Silver City (2021), and “Death is a Hard Teacher” at the alternative art space “Clea Rsky” in Brooklyn, NY(2022.) In 2023 she was curated into White Columns Artist Registry (New York) for under-recognized artists and in 2024 she recieved a grant from the Rauschenberg Foundation Emergency Grants Program.   She currently lives and works in her Main Street studio building in the small town of Estancia, New Mexico.

SOLO  EXHIBITIONS

2022 CLEA RSKY "Death Is a Hard Teacher" New York, NY
2021 WESTERN N.M. UNIVERSITY, MCCRAY GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART "Diane Marsh: A Merging of Worlds" Silver City, NM
2019 THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART "Alcoves 20/20" Santa Fe, NM
2006 ADDISON ARTS GALLERY “Diane Marsh: New Paintings” Santa Fe, NM
2005 MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART “Parallel Perception of Land, Form & The Natural Condition” Kearney, Nebraska
2002 THE ROSWELL MUSEUM & ART CENTER, "Diane Marsh: Paintings” Roswell, NM
2001 NEBRASKA GOVERNORS’ MANSION GALLERY "Diane Marsh: Paintings" Lincoln, NE
1994 ROBISCHON GALLERY "Diane Marsh: Paintings & Drawings" Denver, CO
1993 TORTUE GALLERY “Recent Drawings” Los Angeles, CA
1991 JANUS GALLERY "Diane Marsh: New Paintings" Santa Fe NM
1990 TORTUE GALLERY “Paintings” Los Angeles, CA
1989 JANUS GALLERY Santa Fe NM
1989 THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS “Diane Marsh: Paintings 1981 - 1989 Santa Fe, NM
1989 UNION LEAGUE CLUB OF CHICAGO (Courtesy Struve Gallery) Chicago, IL
1981 THE ROSWELL MUSEUM & ART CENTER "Diane Marsh" Roswell, NM
1978 HALLWALLS “Diane Marsh: Paintings” Buffalo, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 

2024 WG GALLERY "MiniARTures 2024" Dordrecht, Netherlands
2024 ROSWELL MUSEUM "Here & Near: Surrounding Brilliance" Roswell, NM
2023 FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY "Spiritual Visions" St. Louis, MO 
2021 BUCKHAM GALLERY "Disrupted Realism" (curated by John Seed) Flint, MI
2018 ROSWELL MUSEUM & ART CENTER “RAIR Foundation 50th” Roswell, NM
2016 ROSWELL MUSEUM & ART CENTER "Art & Environment" Roswell, NM

2014 MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART "Silent Ways of Speaking" Kearney NE
2014 NEW MEXICO STATE U. Gallery "Selections From the Permanent Collection" Las Cruces, NM
2012 LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS “Symbiosis” Lincoln, NE
2012 MUSUEM OF NEBRASKA ART “Contemporary Women Masters of MONA”S  Collection” Kearney, NE
2011 ROSWELL MUSEUM & ART CENTER “Flora”, (curated by Andrew John Cecil, curator)Roswell, NM
2010 SHELDON MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM “Better Half/Better Twelfth: Women Artists in the Collection” also exhibited: Alice Neel, Susan Rothenberg, Cindy Sherman and others, Lincoln, NE
2010 ROSWELL MUSEUM & ART CENTER “The Ginormous Painting Show” Roswell, NM
2009 HILLMER ART GALLERY College of St. Mary’s, “Contemporary Woman Artists” Omaha, NE
2008 MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART, “Recent Acquisitions” Kearney, NE
2007 CHIAROSCURO GALLERY Santa Fe, NM
2006 MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART “CONTEMPORARY IMAGININGS: The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection Mobile, AL
2006 ADDISON ARTS GALLERY Santa Fe, NM
2005 THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART “About The Face” 3 person show, Santa Fe, NM
2005 ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM Albuquerque, NM
2005 ADDISON ARTS GALLERY “Preview 2005” Santa Fe, NM
2004 ADDISON/PARKS GALLERY “It Figures” Santa Fe, NM
2004 EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY, University of Nebraska, “All About Drawing” Lincoln, NE
2003 SHELDON MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM “Recent Acquisitions” Lincoln, NE
2003 PARKS GALLERY “Opening Exhibition” Santa Fe, NM
2003 STATE CAPITOL OF NEW MEXICO “Five Fellows of the Roswell Artist in Residence Foundation” Santa Fe, NM
2002 LAS VEGAS ART MUSEUM “Las Vegas Collects” Las Vegas, NV
2000 DAHL ARTS CENTER, “Cry of the Land” Rapid City, SD
2000 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, “Faculty Exhibition” Omaha, NE
1999 COLLEGE PARK, “Faculty Exhibition” Grand Island, NE
1997 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL ART EXPOSITION, Robischon Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS “Body and Soul” Santa Fe, NM
1996 PARKS GALLERY “Diane Marsh and Diane Armitage” Taos NM
1996 KAREN RUHLEN GALLERY “Variations on the Figure" Santa Fe, NM
1995 LARRY EVANS GALLERY San Francisco, CA
1995 THE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM “Common Ground ‘95” Albuquerque, NM
1995 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL ART EXPOSITION Robischon Gallery Seattle, WA
1994 WEST PUBLISHING CO. “Art and the Law” traveling exhibition 1994‑1995 Eagan, MN
1993 MARGULIES TAPLIN GALLERY 'Group Show'' Boca Raton, FL
1992 TORTUE GALLERY “Small” Los Angeles, CA
1992 ROBISCHON GALLERY “Chuck Forseman & introducing Diane Marsh and Brenda Zlamany" Denver, CO
1991 TORTUE GALLERY “Gallery Artists” Los Angeles, CA
1991 JANUS GALLERY “Gallery Artists” Santa Fe, NM
1990 NEW MEXICO ST. U. ART MUSEUM “Painting Divergence”  also exhibited: Robert Colescott, Harmony Hammond, Sue Coe & others, Las Cruces, NM
1990 THE CENTER FOR CONTEMP. ARTS “Death & Transformation” Santa Fe. NM
1990 THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART “Southwest ‘90” curated by Henry T. Hopkins, (Director, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation) Santa Fe, NM
1990 ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM “Recent Acquisitions” Albuquerque, NM
1989 JANUS GALLERY “Six New Artists” Santa Fe, NM
1989 JANUS GALLERY “Paperwork” Santa Fe, NM
1988 STRUVE GALLERY “Figures” Chicago, IL
1988 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY “Works on Paper” also exhibited: Sean Scully, Not Vital, Vernon Fischer, and others, Buffalo, NY
1988 THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS “On the Wall/Off the Wall" Curated by Robert Gaylor, Director  Santa Fe, NM
1988 STRUVE GALLERY “Chicago International Art Exposition” Chicago, Ill.
1986 RUTH SIEGEL GALLERY “Square and...” New York, NY also exhibited: David Reed, Italo Scanga, Sam Messer, Richard Boseman, and others
1986 STRUVE GALLERY “Works on Paper” Chicago, IL
1986 ALLEGHENY COLLEGE “Works of the Figure‑ Eleven Contemporary Approaches” PA
1986 STRUVE GALLERY “Chicago International Art Exposition” Chicago, IL
1985 LEILA TAGHINIA-MILANI GALLERY “Tension Examples in Art; The 20th Century” New York, NY also exhibited: Mark Di Suvero, Richard Serra,   Clemente, Basquiat, Neel, Picasso,  Duchamp, Haring, Warhol, Johns, Kelly and others
1985 FRUMKIN/STRUVE GALLERY “Figure-Form-Content” also exhibited: Joan Brown, Roy DeForest, James Valerio, and others, Chicago, IL
1985 FRUMKIN/STRUVE GALLERY “Contemporary American Still‑life” Chicago, IL
1985 PARK AVENUE ATRIUM GALLERY “2nd Annual Landscape Exhibition” (curated by Ludwig Datene) New York, NY
1985 EMPORIA ST. UNIVERSITY “Ninth Annual National Invitational” Emporia, KS
1985 ARTIMISIA GALLERY “Women Look at Men” Chicago, IL
1984 FRUMKIN/STRUVE GALLERY “Contemporary Works On Paper” Chicago, IL also exhibited: Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Williams Wiley, Peter Saul and Tom Uttech,  William Beckman,  & others
1984 MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH “Recent Aquisitions” Lubbock, TX
1982 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY "Nineteen From New York" Buffalo, NY
1982 NATIONAL ARTS CLUB "In Western NY" (curated from the collection of  Kathleen & Joseph Policano) New York, NY
1982 ABRAMS ARTS FOR LIVING CENTER "Home Work: The Domestic  Environment Reflected In Work By Contemporary Women Artists"(curated by           Harmony Hammond) New York, NY
1981 NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME "Home Work: The Domestic Environment Reflected In Work By Contemporary Women Artists" with artists Ida Applebroog, Harmony Hammond, Joyce Kosloff, Pat Lasch, Miriam  Shapiro & others, Seneca Falls, NY

1981 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, LOWE ART GALLERY, "Home Work: The Domestic Environment Reflected In Work By Contemporary Women Artists” Syracuse, NY
1981 HILLS GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART "Newcomers II" Santa Fe, NM
1980 AAO GALLERY "International All On Paper" Buffalo, NY
1980 SILVERMINE GUILD "31st Annual New England Exhibition" New Canaan, CT
1979 ALBRIGHT‑KNOX ART MUSEUM “In Western New York 1979" curated by  Linda L. Cathcart, Douglas Schultz, & Charlotta Kotick, Buffalo, NY
1979 PARSONS EXHIBITION CENTER ''S.A.G.A., National Print" New York. NY
1979 ERIE ART MUSEUM "National Painting Exhibition" Erie, PA
1978 HERBERT F. JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART "3 Figurative Painters" Curated by
         Thomas Leavitt, Director, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1978 ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART MUSEUM "37th Western New York Exhibition" curated by Thomas Leavitt, Director, (Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.)  Buffalo, NY 
1978 BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART "42ND Annual Midyear Show" Youngstown, Ohio
1978 PIONEER MUSEUM & HAGGIN ART GALLERY "Contemporary Trends in Drawing and Printmaking" Stockton, CA
1977 BURCHFIELD PENNY CENTER "Western NY Collegiate Drawing Exhibit" curated by Douglas Schultz (curator Albright-Knox Museum) Buffalo, NY
1977 DORTMUND FOREIGN INSTITUTE "Begegnung Mit Buffalo" Dortmund, West Germany

GRANTS & AWARDS

2024 RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION EMERGENCY GRANTS PROGRAM, New York
2023 WHITE COLUMNS ARTIST REGISTRY (curated into) New York
2022 JENTEL FOUNDATION Artist in Residence Grant, Banner, Wyoming
2003 JOHN ANSON KITTREDGE FOUNDATION EDUCATIONAL FUND GRANT
2002 RAiR Foundation, Artist-iin-Residence Grant, Roswell, NM
2001 NEBRASKA STATE ARTS COUNCIL GRANT, Painting, Lincoln, NE
1996 WESTERN STATES ART FEDERATION Painting Grant Alternate, Santa Fe, NM
1985 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS Grant, (painting) Washington, DC
1980 RAiR Foundation, Artist-in-Residence Grant, Roswell, NM
1979 THE ELIZABETH GREENSHIELDS FOUNDATION GRANT Montreal, Canada
1979 ERIE ART MUSEUM Painting Award, ‘National Painting Exhibition” Erie, PA
1978 ALBRIGHT-KNOX MUSEUM Graphic Controls Corp. Painting Award, Buffalo,            NY
1977 BURCHFIELD PENNY ART CENTER Purchase Award, Buffalo, NY

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

HESS COLLECTION MUSEUM Napa, CA
THE SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART Lincoln, NE

ALBRECHT-KEMPER MUSEUM St. Joseph, MO
THE LILLEY MUSEUM OF ART, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART Santa Fe, NM
ROSWELL MUSEUM Roswell, NM
MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART Kearney, NE
WEST TEXAS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION Lubbock, TX
THE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM Albuquerque, NM
NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM Las Cruces, NM
BURCHFIELD PENNY ART CENTER Buffalo, NY
THE CAPITOL ART COLLECTION Santa Fe, NM
KEMPER GROUP Chicago, IL
BEST PRODUCTS CORPORATION Richmond, VA
EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY Roswell, NM
ED HARRIS & AMY MADIGAN Malibu, CA
DAVIS ENTERPRISES Marlton, NJ
HOWARD A & JUDITH TULLMAN ART COLLECTION Chicago, IL
JENNIFER & JIM ROBISCHON, ROBISCHON GALLERY, Denver, CO
THE ANDERSON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Roswell, NM
SUBY BOWDEN + ASSOCIATES-ARCHITECTURE Santa Fe, NM
DIANE & SANDY BESSER COLLECTION Santa Fe, NM
LUCY R. LIPPARD Galisteo NM
THE FRITO-LAY CORPORATION Plano, TX
KAREN & ROBERT DUNCAN COLLECTION Lincoln, NE
THE ROHMAN COLLECTION Lincoln, NE
GOODMAN-DUFFY TRUST, Las Vegas, Nevada
many private collections not listed

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHERIE DAWN HAAS "17 Artworks Honoring Motherhood" Realism Today, May 13, 2024

STAFF REPORTS "Artists to Showcase Artwork at Jentel Presents" The Sheridan Press, Oct. 29, 2022
IVAN LEONARD "Vision of a Spiritual Path" Albuquerque Journal, May 7, 2022
MICHAEL ABATEMARCO "State of the Art: A representative survey of local artists on view at the Roundhouse" Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo January 24, 2020

ANNA KATZ "With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985" Yale University Press, Nov. 20, 2019
LUCY R. LIPPARD and DIANE ARMITAGE "Diane Marsh: Paintings 1986-2017" catalogue 2018
SHARON MCCAWLEY "Diane Marsh at Alcoves 2020", Vision Magazine, Roswell Daily Record, September 29, 2019
MICHAEL ABATEMARCO "Find Your Niche: Alcoves 20/20" The New Mexican, Pasatiempo, August 9, 2019
CHRISTINA STOCK, "Emotions on Canvas" Vision Magazine, August 16, 2018
L. KENT WOLGAMOTT, “ SYMBOSIS: Connects Work of Nine Married Couples” Lincoln Journal Star, March 10, 2012
L. KENT WOLGAMOTT, "Female Artists Showcase Work in Sheldon Show" Lincoln Journal Star, April 10, 2010
ERIN GRACE, "Female Artists Become Museum's Primary Focus" Omaha World-Herald, August 15, 2010
JOHN PITCHER “Woman Display Mastery in Mediums” Omaha World-Herald April 19, 2009
JILL D'ALESSANDRO, TIMOTHY ANGLIN BURGARD, KARIN BREUER, "The Diane & Sandy Besser Collection: A Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco" Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2007
L. KENT WOLGAMOTT, “Top 10 Art World Encounters in 2005” Lincoln Journal Star, February 17, 2006
DOUGLAS BULLIS “100 Artists of the Southwest” Schiffer Publishing 2006
DOTTIE INDYKE “Earth Mother: Artist promotes need to protect nature in her paintings” Albuquerque Journal North, May 5, 2006
BOB ECKERT Rio Grande Sun May 18, 2006
JAN THOMPSON “Together in Art, Marriage” Kearney Hub, July 14, 2005
L. KENT WOLGAMOTT, “Unsettling Appearance” Lincoln Journal Star, April 8, 2001
EMILY DRABANSKI, “A Capitol Collection” New Mexico Magazine, January 1997
ELLEN BERKOVITCH "Out of the Woods" Albuquerque Journal North, May 8, 1997
LIS BENSLEY “Body and Soul: Bridge to the Invisible”, The New Mexican Sept. 20. 1996.
HART HILL “The Naked Pray”, Westword, October 1 - November 1, 1994.
MARY VOELZ CHANDLER “From Myth to Wordplay to Shirts”, Rocky Mountain News, Oct. 21, 1994.
DIANE ARMITAGE “Art Forum”, THE magazine, Nov. 1993.
DAVID BELL “Mannerism Kept Alive in Style, New Shows”, Albuquerque Journal North Nov. 21, 1991.
PETER FRANK “Art Pick of the Week”, L.A. Weekly, Oct. 5, 1990.
WILLIAM WILSON “Art Reviews-Large Figures and Pensive Palms”, Los Angeles Times Sept. 28, 1990.
DAVID BELL “Marsh Works Confront Fleeting Emotional Moments”, Albuquerque Journal Nov.24, 1989.
RICHARD HUNTINGTON, "Freudenheim Show Brilliantly Displays That Paper Has Arrived" The Buffalo News, January 22, 1988
DAVID BELL " A Cross-Section of Modern Art" Albuquerque Journal North, February 9, 1988
SONDRA WARD EISENBERG "Selections from the Frito-Lay Collection" catalogue 1985
ALAN G. ARTNER “Frumkin & Struve Draw Upon Diversity”, Chicago Tribune, Jan. 24,1985.
DINAH PRINCE "New York Artists Go Back To The Land...Sort of" Daily News, May 8, 1985
ERIC POOLEY "Fast Track" New York Magazine, November 19, 1984
HELEN A. HARRISON "Art: A Woman's Way in Art?", The New York Times, March 28, 1982
JOHN PERREAULT “Homespun”, Soho News, Dec. 15, 1981.
HARMONY HAMMOND "Home Work: The Domestic Environment Reflected In Work By Contemporary Women Artists" catalogue,1981
MARK MILLER “Aspects of Pattern & Decoration”, Video-shown at The Kitchen, NYC 1981

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021       "Women In The Arts" lecture series, Western NM University McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art  Silver City, NM
2019        Gallery Talk, The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2009-21   Director, Historic Studios at Berrendo Road,  RAIR Foundation, Roswell,, NM
2009-15   Board Member, Capitol Art Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
2006-09   Member, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation Board of Directors
2005        Visiting Artist, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE
1999        Visiting Faculty, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
1997        Visiting Artist, Lecture Series "Painting Dialogues" with Robert Colescott, Gregory Amenoff, Robert Bermillin and others, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
1997        Visiting Artist, Midland College, Midland, TX
1993        Visiting Artist, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1990        Visiting Artist, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
1989        Visiting Artist, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
                Visiting Artist, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.
1987        Visiting Artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL.
1985        Visiting Artist, Kansas State University, Emporia, KS.
1984        Visiting Artist, University of Delaware, Newark, DE & 1982
1979        Instructor, State U. of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY      
                Instructor, Empire State College, painting & drawing, Buffalo, NY.
1978        Program Coordinator, College of Creative Arts State University of New York at Buffalo