Diana Kurz

Summer Joy

Diana Kurz was born in Vienna, Austria, came to the US in 1940 and lives in Soho, NYC. She has been an exhibiting representational painter since the 1970s. Her subject matter includes monumental figure paintings, landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and animal imagery, and an important series of works on the theme of the Holocaust. Color is of primary importance in her work. Her preferred medium is oil on linen canvas, and she also works with watercolor and pastel on paper. Her art has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe, and is in many distinguished collections including The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Rose Art Museum; Smith College Museum of Art ; Wien Museum, Vienna; The Jewish Museum of Vienna; Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem; Bezirksmuseum Josefstadt, Vienna; Brooklyn Botanic Garden; Rowan University, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Wash. DC and other public and private collections. She has received numerous grants and awards including, among others:, a Fulbright Fellowship to France; American Center Residency in Paris; New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant; VCCA/Austrian Federal Ministry of the Arts Artist-In-Residence in Vienna; Atlantic Center for the Arts and artist residencies at Hambidge Center, Atlantic Center for theArts, , Yaddo, McDowell Colony, VCCA among others.. She has taught studio art at Queens College, Pratt Institute, Philadelphia College of Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Kurz received her B.A. from Brandeis University and M.F.A. from Columbia University