About this Event
Situated within the exhibition unbecoming, Al-Hadid will be present to highlight her reworking of materials and form as a way to uncover and challenge deeper themes of womanhood across mythology, art history, and global literature.
unbecoming is a survey of paintings and sculptures by Diana Al-Hadid that examines how constructions of femininity take form over time, a development that can be understood in part by thinking through Al-Hadid’s research and artistic practice. The artist’s reworking of materials and form is a process that models how one can similarly transform the social expectations about womanhood and women’s behavior to instead find the power in being “unbecoming.”
Diana Al-Hadid is a New York-based artist who works prolifically between painting, sculpture, and more recently, handmade paper. Born in Syria in 1981, Al-Hadid moved to the United States as a child. She grew up in Ohio, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kent State University, and a Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. Al-Hadid’s work draws on diverse sources ranging from art history to Greek mythology, and global literature. Her visual language emerges from an astute sense of materiality that culminates in abstraction.
Al-Hadid has had solo exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY in collaboration with Madison Square Park, NY; the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, RI; the NYU Abu Dhabi University Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE; the Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria; the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH; the Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH; the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA; the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX; the Centro de Arte Contemporánea, La Conservera, Spain; the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
Al-Hadid's work has been included in FRONT International, the Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in Ohio, the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial in Australia, the 5th Chicago Architecture Biennial, and New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Arts & Design Initiative.
Her work is included in collections such as the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, and the Toledo Museum of Art, amongst others.
Image: Diana Al-Hadid, August, after The Seventh Month, 2025, Polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, plaster, metal leaf, and pigment, 109 x 85 x 6 in., Courtesy of Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Georgetown University Art Galleries, 3535 Prospect St NW, Washington, United States
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