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
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
Grants
2012 Pollock Krasner grant recipient
2009 Pollock Krasner grant recipient
2005 NYFA grant recipient in sculpture
2002 Change Inc. grant recipient
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
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
1997 Winter Catalog, CRP, Brooklyn, NY
New Product, CRP, Brooklyn, NY
Fictions, Guido Carbone Galleria, Torino, Italy
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
Artist Residencies
2004 Art Omi
2003 McColl Center for the Arts
2002 Millay Colony
Yaddo
1996 Vermont Studio Center
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2025 Diana Puntar, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London, UK – Upcoming
Diana Puntar, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston on Thames, UK - Upcoming
2023 Historical Re-Anachronism, Ultima Romanus, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK
2020 Test Site Two from the Milky Way, HARTslane, London, UK
Meat Rock… Rockers, Helzer Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 Meat Rock… Rockers, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
2015 Travel in the Near Future, Untitled Art Fair, PARTICIPANT INC, Miami, FL
2014 Deflowered and Devoured - Stigma & Style, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Milky Way…. Get Your Orgone On, Blackston Gallery, New York, NY
The Milky Way… Get Your Orgone On, Eat It, Paladar, 3rd Streaming, New York, NY
2008 LIVED LIVE EVIL DEVIL, Oliver Kamm, New York, NY
2007 Diana Puntar, Less Than Day, Or Night, MoMA/PS1, LIC, 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
COLLABORATIONS & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017 Skybox - Walter Dundervill & Diana Puntar, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, 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
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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Room Share 5, The Pickstone Room, Blink, Peckham, UK
Queer Utopias, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
I’ll Be Your Mirror, Anton Art Center, Detroit, US
2022 Cubitt30, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
Queer Art(ists) Now, Space Station Sixty-five, London, UK
2020 Queer Art(ists) Now, Archive Gallery, London
Queer(ing) Space, Deptford Art, London
2019 Queering the Art Classroom, Sutton House, London
2016 Annual Residence Show, GAR, Galveston, TX
2015 Plant People, GAR, Galveston, TX
2013 Congregation, Gallery 106, Brooklyn, NY
2012 What Is Your Prophecy for The Future, The Oracle, Berlin, Germany
Deflowered and Devoured Untitled Art Fair, PARTICIPANT INC, Miami, FL
2011 Shapeshifters, 443pas Gallery, New York, NY
2009 No Longer Empty @ The Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY
Timeline: Benefit, PARTICIPANT, INC. New York, NY
2007 Office Party, PARTICIPANT, INC. @ Rental, New York, NY
Fung Wah, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Eccentric Space, Galleria Janet Kurnatowski, 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
2003 New Slang, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, & AWARDS
2024 Shortlisted Artist, UK AIDS Memorial
2023 Eltham College, Artist in Residence
2020 HARTslane, Artist in Residence
a-n/Freelands Foundation Covid Emergency Grant
Arts Council Covid Emergency Grant
2019 VAST Residency, Southern Oregon University
2015 Galveston Artist Residency, Artist in Residency
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, & AWARDS CONTINUED
2012 Pollock Krasner Foundation, Grant Recipient
Joan Mitchell Foundation, Grant Recipient
2009 Pollock Krasner Foundation, Grant Recipient
2005 NYFA Grant Recipient, Sculpture
2004 Art OMI, Artist in Residence
2003 McColl Center for The Arts, Artist in Residence
2002 Millay Colony, Artist in Residence
Yaddo, Artist in Residence
TEACHING
2019 Visiting Artist and Scholar, Southern Oregon University
2012/16 Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University
2015 MFA Faculty, Wilson College, MFA program, PA
2007-12 Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
VISITING ARTIST
2019 Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Queering the Art Classroom reading group, Sutton House, London, UK
2016 University of Houston, Houston, TX, US
2014 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA, US
2010 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, US
2007 New York Studio Program, New York, NY, US
2006 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US
Lesley University, Boston, MA, US
2004 University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, US
2003 Hampshire College, MA, US
EDUCATION
MFA Tufts University – SMFA, Boston, MA
BA The University of Maryland, College Park, MD
DIANA PUNTAR