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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

2025 — (H±R-A) The Pre-Actual Acorn, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London, UK
2025 — Chimera (H±R-A), Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames, UK
2023 — Historical Re-Anachronism: Ultima Romanus, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK
2020 — Test Site Two from the Milky Way, HARTslane, London, UK
2015–14 — Meat Rock… Rockers, Helzer Gallery & Schneider Museum, Oregon, US
2013 — The Milky Way… Get Your Orgone On, Blackston Gallery & 3rd Streaming, NY
2007 — Less Than Day, Or Night, MoMA/PS1, Long Island City, NY
2006 — Burning for You, PARTICIPANT INC., New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 — Room Share 5, Blink / The Pickstone Room, London
2024 — Queer Utopias, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
2020 — I’ll Be Your Mirror, Anton Art Centre, Detroit, US
2019 — Cubitt30, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2005–2015 — Exhibitions at Samson Projects (Boston), Stefan Stux Gallery, Luhring Augustine, PARTICIPANT INC, MoMA/PS1, and Untitled Art Fair (Miami)

AWARDS, GRANTS & HONOURS

2024 — Shortlisted Artist, UK AIDS Memorial
2025 — a-n Bursary
2020 — Arts Council England Grant
2020 — a-n/Freelands Foundation Bursary
2012 — Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2012 — Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2009 — Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2005 — NYFA Fellow, Sculpture

RESIDENCIES

2023–25 — Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
2023 — Eltham College, Artist in Residence
2020 — HARTslane, London
2019 — VAST Residency, Southern Oregon University
2015–16 — Galveston Artist Residency, TX, US
2004–03 — Art OMI, Yaddo, Millay Colony, McColl Centre, NY/NC

TEACHING & VISITING ARTIST ENGAGEMENTS

2012–16 — Assistant Professor, Cal Poly State University, CA
2007–12 — Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, NY
2015 — MFA Faculty, Wilson College MFA Program, PA
2019 — Visiting Scholar, Southern Oregon University
2019 — Visiting Artist, University of Cambridge, UK
Additional: SMFA Boston, UNC Greensboro, Lesley University, University of Houston

EDUCATION

MFA — Tufts University / School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
BA — University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Diana Puntar is a London-based artist originally from New York City. Her cross-disciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, drawing, printmaking, and social engagement. Deeply rooted in materiality and critical inquiry, her work investigates how dominant systems—especially capitalism, nationalism, and colonial legacies—are embedded into contemporary life through both overt symbols and hidden infrastructures.

Puntar's ongoing project Historical Re-Anachronism examines the enduring influence of colonization and the mythologies that sustain American and British imperialist ideologies. Using humour, historical research, and speculative design, she unravels the edited histories of the Revolutionary War era and their co-option by contemporary right-wing movements. Historical Re-Anachronism, Ultima Romanus (Gerald Moore Gallery, 2023) questioned the fluidity of national identity and the contradictions between tradition and progress. Her recent solo exhibitions (H±R–A) The Pre-Actual Acorn and Chimera (H±R–A), an alternative sculpture and heritage trail produced by Stanley Picker Gallery continue this inquiry by investigating the symbolic power of everyday historical objects like 18th-century porcelain pickle stands, and the role monuments play in shaping collective memory.

Since 2009, Puntar has also been developing The Milky Way, a multi-platform, evolving project that draws on utopian philosophies, countercultural science, and ecological systems, particularly fungi as metaphors for alternative ways of living, connection, and survival. Past iterations have included mushroom terrariums, community dinners, and conceptual think tanks. One key installation, The Milky Way…Get Your Orgone On (Blackston Gallery, NY), combined a functioning Orgone Accumulator (after Wilhelm Reich), a shitake mushroom garden, and a disco floor synced to a soundtrack by The Crystal Ark. This immersive work offered visitors a chance to meditate on the slippage between real and imagined cures, drawing a sensual line between fantasy, wellness, and resistance to nihilism.

Puntar has been an Artist in Residence at Wysing Arts Centre, Eltham College, Art OMI, Yaddo, and the Galveston Artist Residency. She is a studio holder and member at Cubitt Artists, London, where she served as Co-Chair of Public Programs (2022–24). Her work has been supported by major institutions including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (twice), Joan Mitchell Foundation, NYFA, Arts Council England, Freelands Foundation, and a-n.

Solo and collaborative exhibitions include MoMA PS1, PARTICIPANT INC (NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Pioneer Works (Brooklyn), Stanley Picker Gallery, HARTslane, and the Schneider Museum of Art (Oregon). Her work has been featured in Art in America, Art New England, Modern Painters, ArtNet, The Boston Globe, Gay City News, Time Out New York, and others.

She holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, and a BA in Sculpture from the University of Maryland. Puntar has taught at institutions including Cal Poly, Wilson College MFA, and Pratt Institute, and has been a visiting artist at Cambridge University, SMFA Boston, and more.

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