Installation view, Martha Diamond, Sara Hildén Museum of Art, Tampere, Finland. From left: Cityscape with Yellow Sky, 1994; Cityscape No. 1, 2000; New York No. 3, 2000. Image by Jussi Koivunen.
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Martha Diamond, Sara Hildén Museum of Art, Tampere, Finland, Sept. 19–Jan. 17, 2027. In concert October 4, 2026: “Chamber Music Among Visual Art - Martha Diamond”
2025 Martha Diamond: After Image, David Kordansky Gallery, New York, May 1–June 14
2024 Martha Diamond: Deep Time, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn., Nov. 17–May 18, 2025; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, July 13–October 13
Skin of the City, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, March 22–April 27
2022 Night Lights, Magenta Plains, New York, Nov. 5–Dec. 17
2021 Martha Diamond: 1980–1989, Magenta Plains, New York, Jan. 13–Feb. 27
2018 Martha Diamond: Cityscapes, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, June 23–July 27
2017 Martha Diamond: Broad Strokes, Harper’s Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y., July 22–Aug. 15
2016 Martha Diamond: Recent Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, Jan. 7–Feb. 13
2014 Martha Diamond: Paintings, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, N.Y., June 19-July 13
2012 Martha Diamond: Bright Brush Paintings, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, June 20–July 27
2004 Martha Diamond: From Three Decades, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, Oct. 28–Dec. 18
2003 G Watson Gallery, Stonington, Maine
2001 G Watson Gallery, Stonington, Maine
1994 Martha Diamond: Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, May 24–June 25
1990 Martha Diamond, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Feb. 6–March 3
1989 Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Colo.
1988 Martha Diamond, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, March 1–March 26
Martha Diamond: Paintings, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Jan. 29–March 24
Martha Diamond: Prints, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Jan. 29–March 24
1986 Martha Diamond: Small Oil Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1985 Martha Diamond: New Paintings, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
1984 Martha Diamond: Monotypes 1982-1984, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, March 31–April 21
1983 Martha Diamond: New Paintings, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, Dec. 8–29
1982 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
1981 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
1980 Martha Diamond: Small Paintings, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
1978 Martha Diamond: Paintings, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, Oct. 3–28
1976 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Installation view, Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained, curated by David Salle, Hill Art Foundation, New York, April 21–July 21, 2023. From left: Martha Diamond, Towers, 1986; Andrea Riccio, Strigil Bearer, c. 1515–20; Willem de Kooning, Untitled I, 1978. Photograph by Matthew Herrmann, copyright © Hill Art Foundation
“Looking at one of her paintings, you feel the same urgent and direct translation from sensation to form as one would in a de Kooning. They are not the same, of course; de Kooning’s brush was guided more by the arabesque, or the figure eight—all the better to capture the hills and valleys of his fleshy creatures. Diamond’s brush was more like a thrown knife or a karate chop.” —David Salle, Artforum
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 American Conversations, exploring how artists have contributed to the dialogue around the idea of America, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine, April 10-Nov. 15.
2025 Painting Energy: The Alex Katz Foundation Collection at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, May 23-Sept. 14
Love Poems: Curated by Chris Martin (Singing In Unison, Part 11), Anton Kern Gallery, New York, March 12–April 26
2024 Surface Tension: Etchings from the Collection, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, July 13, 2024–Jan. 12, 2025
Looking Back/The 14th White Columns Annual, selected by Randy Kennedy, White Columns, New York, Jan. 19–March 2
2023 Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained, exploring affinities between works of art, curated by David Salle, Hill Art Foundation, New York, April 21–July 21
Maine in America 2023: A Celebration of the Alex Katz Foundation, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, Feb. 11–Sept. 24
2022 Painting in New York: 1971–83, female painters impacted by feminism’s second wave, curated by Ivy Shapiro, Karma, New York, Sept. 21–Nov. 5
Painting as Is II, curated by Heidi Hahn and Tim Wilson, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, June 28–Aug. 26
2021 On the Bowery, curated by Loren Munk, Zürcher Gallery, New York, Nov. 13–Jan. 30, 2022
2020 In Her Hands: Martha Diamond, Chantal Joffe, and Nicole Wittenberg, curated by David Salle, Skarstedt, New York, Jan. 9–Feb. 15
2019 Vanquishing Ocular, curated by David Salle and Nicole Wittenberg, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y., July 20–Aug. 19
Downtown Painting, echoing the spirit of the downtown art scene in the 1950s and ’60s, curated by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman, New York, June 5–July 26
2017 Visionary Painting: Curated by Alex Katz, artists in dialogue with the work of Marsden Hartley, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, June 1–Aug. 27
2016 I Beam U Channel, Bortolami Gallery, New York, June 30–Aug. 12
Nice Weather, curated by David Salle, Skarstedt, New York, Feb. 25–April 16
Installation views, Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, curated by Phong Bui, Industry City, Brooklyn, Oct. 20–Dec. 15, 2013. From left: Church I, Church II, Church III, Church IV, Blue, White, all 2010. At right: Cityscape with Indian Yellow, 1994. Photos by Brian Buckley
2013 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, March 7-April 14
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, curated by Phong Bui, organized by The Brooklyn Rail with the support of the Dedalus Foundation and others, Industry City, Brooklyn, Oct. 20–Dec. 15
2012 Interior Visions: Selections from the Collection by Alex Katz, curated by Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, July 14–Oct. 7
2010 That Is Then. This Is Now, curated by Irving Sandler and Robert Storr, CUE Art Foundation, New York, Sept. 9–Oct. 30
Decameron: David Cohen's decade of exhibitions at the New York Studio School, 2000-2010, New York Studio School, Sept. 9–Oct. 10
Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting (Za Fukei), Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan, April 24–Sept. 12
2009 Primitif Compliqué, curated by Merlin James, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Brussels, April 3–May 23
2008 Bearden to Ruscha: Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, N.C., May 23–May 24, 2009
2007 Contemporary Art at the Colby College Museum of Art: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, July 14–Oct. 28
2005 The Art of Screenprint, Detroit Institute of Arts, Aug. 10–Oct. 30
2004 The Anxious Image, The Painting Center, New York, Nov. 2–27
2002 Works on Paper Published by Stewart & Stewart, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, Cal.
New Spring Faculty, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Series, the Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham; traveled to the Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
2001 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, May 16-June 10
1998 Inventing the American Landscape: A Dialogue with the Visual World, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
1997 Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, N.Y.
Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, Havana, Cuba
1996 New Faculty, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1995 New Faculty, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
Painting Faculty, Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery, Cooper Union School of Art, New York
1994 New York, New York, Recent Cityscapes: Paintings by Martha Diamond, Jane Dickson, Yvonne Jacquette, David Kapp, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Oct. 15-Feb. 12, 1995
Red Windows, benefit for the Little Red Schoolhouse sponsored by Barneys and Christie's, Barneys on Seventh Ave., New York
1992 Martha Diamond, Louise Fishman, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman, and Bernard Piffaretti: Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Singular and Plural: Recent Accessions, Drawings and Prints 1945-1991, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Emerging New York Artists: An Exhibit from the Collection of Phil Schrader, College of Communication, Fine Arts & Media, University of Nebraska at Omaha
1991 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, March 4-30
Prints by Martha Diamond and James DeWoody, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
1990 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Some Seventies Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
A Little Night Music: Manhattan in the Dark, Lintas Worldwide, New York
Intaglio Printing in the 1980s, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
Installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989 Biennial Exhibition, April 18-July 16. On the walls: Martha Diamond, Three Lights, 1988; Red Light, 1988. Foreground: Meg Webster, Earth Stage, 1989. Photo by Geoffrey Clements, courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art
“Until last year, Diamond used the structural grid of steel-frame skyscrapers to organize her frenzy of wet-into-wet paint marks. The results . . . were spectral abstractions of the city, looming in a charged atmosphere enriched by her free color sense. . . . More recently, she has transferred the ecstasy of her cityscapes to a series of true abstractions. The terse vector of color that comprises Red Light is typical of these newer pictures. So, too, are the jumpy flames of Three Lights.” —1989 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art / W.W. Norton & Company
1989 The 1980s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Dec. 17-April 8, 1990
Two Boliou Alumnae: The Art of Martha Diamond and Donna Dennis, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.
1989 Biennial Exhibition, curated by Richard Armstrong, John G. Hanhardt, Richard Marshall and Lisa Phillips, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 18-July 16
Urban Images, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wis.
Painting After the Death of Painting, curated by Donald Kuspit, presented in association with the U.S.S.R. Union of Artists, Kuznetsky Most Exhibition Hall, Moscow
1988 Selections from the Collection, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn., Jan. 17-Feb. 28
1987 Urban Images: Scenes of the City, A.P. Giannini Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco
Urban Visions: The Contemporary Artist and New York, University Center Gallery, Adelphi University, Garden City, N.Y.
1986 Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; traveled to New York Academy of Art
Life in the Big City, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1985 Night Lights: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Nocturnes, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
Art of the 1970’s and 80’s, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn.
One of a Kind: Monotypes from the Collection, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco
1984 MetaManhattan, works that contribute to a transformation of Manhattan. Whitney Museum of American Art (Downtown Branch), Federal Hall National Memorial, New York, Jan. 12-March 15
Contemporary Triptychs, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Night Paintings, Florence Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Penn.
Night Lights, Dart Gallery, Chicago
The Recent Generation of American Women Artists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Young American Artists from Brooke Alexander Inc., Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
1983 Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 3-May 15
The American Artist as Printmaker: The 23rd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum
Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal
Brave New Work: Recent American Paintings and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
New York, New Art: Contemporary Paintings from New York Galleries, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Del.
Turbulences, American Center in Paris
1982 Gallery Group, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Selected Prints III, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Visiting Artists’ Invitational, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia
1981 Prints: Acquisitions 1977-1981, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Oct. 15–Jan. 3, 1982
Paintings, Brooke Alexander Gallery
Exchanges III, Louis Abrons Arts for Living Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York
Art at Work, General Mills, Minneapolis
1980 Almost Abstract, Boston College Art Gallery, Newton, Mass.
Drawing of a Different Nature, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Ore.
Diamond, Lieberman, Lipski: Recent Works, Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.
1979 Sixth British International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, England
1978 Thick Paint. Art in reaction to the impersonal surfaces of pop art, minimalism and color-field painting, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Oct. 1-Nov. 8
Paintings ’75, ’76, ’77, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y.
1977 New Abstract Objects, Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Arts, Buffalo, N.Y.
1974 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition 1964-1974, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn., Sept. 15-Dec. 15
1973 Contemporary Reflections 1972-73, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn., April 22-Aug. 19