Education

MFA 1996 Sculpture The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

BA 1991 Fine Arts, Sculpture The University of Maryland, College Park, MD

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Professional Experience

2012 – Present      Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University

2008– 2012           Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2005-2006             Technical Assistant, Cooper Union, New York, NY

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Grants

2012                       Pollock Krasner grant recipient

2009                       Pollock Krasner grant recipient        

2005                       NYFA grant recipient in sculpture

2002                       Change Inc. grant recipient

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Solo Exhibitions and Collaborations

2013                     The Milky Way…. Get Your Orgone On, Blackston Gallery, New York, NY (upcoming)

                             Diana Puntar, Cuesta College, SLO, CA (upcoming)

2013                     The Milky Way… Get Your Orgone On – Eat It Paladar @ 3rd Streaming, New York, NY

2012                     Pepe & Puntar”s Lucid Dream Lounge, ​PARTICIPANT INC, New York, NY  

2011                     After Eden, Diana Puntar & SKOTE, Skowhegan Awards Dinner, New York, NY

2008                     Lived Live Evil Devil, Oliver Kamm, New York, NY

2007                     Diana Puntar, Less Than Day, Or Night, PS1, Queens, NY

                             One Last Single Solitary Moment, Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL

2006                     An Hour On The Sun, Small A Projects, Portland, OR

2005                     Burning For You, PARTICIPANT, INC., New York, NY

​Two-Person Exhibitions

2007                     On Spec: Diana Puntar and Goran Tomcic, White Box, New York, NY

2006                     Carrie Moyer and Diana Puntar, ​Samson Projects, Boston, MA

2001                     John Bauer and Diana Puntar, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2000                     Woodie, Fritz Buehner and Diana Puntar, CRP, Brooklyn, NY

                             David Kasdorf and Diana Puntar, PS122, New York, NY

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​Selected Group Exhibitions

2012                     Deflowered and Devoured Untitled Art Fair, PARTICIPANT INC, Miami, FL

2011                     Shapeshifters, 443pas Gallery, New York, NY

2010                     Both Sides of the Pulaski, LIC, NY

                             Like the Spice, Brooklyn, NY

2009                     No Longer Empty @ The Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY

                            Time Line: Benefit, PARTICIPANT, INC. New York, NY

2008                     NYFA Spring Benefit, Carnival, New York, NY

2007                     Office Party, PARTICIPANT, INC. @ Rental, New York, NY

                             Fung Wah, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA       

2006                     The Raw and The Cooked, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

                             Eccentric Space, Galleria Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY

                             Native Spirit, Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY

2005                     Cold Cuts, Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL

                             Culture Vulture, Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY

                             Geo, Foxy Productions, New York, NY

2004                     Inaugural Exhibit, Samson Gallery, Boston, MA

                             Irrational Exuberance, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY

                             Eccentric Spaces, N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY

2004                     Artists in the Studio: 30 Years at the Millay Colony for the Arts,

                             Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, NY

 2003                     Druid: Wood as Superconductor, Space 101, Brooklyn, NY

                              McColl Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC

                             New Slang, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY

                             Glossing, 1R Gallery, Chicago, IL

2002                     Proper Villains, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT

1999                     Close To You, Gallery @ Green Street, Boston, MA​

                    The Big Little Drawing Show, N3, Brooklyn​​​, NY

                              Transience and Sentimentality: From Boston and Beyond,​​ The ICA, Boston, MA

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​1997                     Winter Catalog, CRP, Brooklyn, NY

                             New Product, CRP, Brooklyn, NY​

​                             Fictions, Guido Carbone Galleria, Torino, Ital​​y ​​​                         ​​

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Visiting Artist Lectures

2010                     School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

                             Boston College

2005                     New York Studio Program

                             Queens College

2004                     Art Institute of Boston

                      Hampshire College

                      Pratt Institute

2003                     University of North Carolina, Greensboro

                             Pratt Institute

2002                     Boston College

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​Artist Residencies

2004                     Art Omi

2003                     McColl Center for the Arts

2002                     Millay Colony

                             Yaddo

1996                     Vermont Studio Center

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