“What Frank Auerbach did for Camden Town, and Monet did for Paris, and De Chirico did for piazzas all over Italy, Diamond did for Manhattan. None of these artists were bothered with assiduous documentation of the built environment so much as with conveying how it felt to them. . . . Diamond paints the sensation of New York: a place of looming masses, fleeting vistas and overwhelming immersion. It can be a place that in one instant is hard to see and then, the next, is the most recognizable city in the world.”
—Jonathan Griffin, The New York Times, 2024
Installation view, Skin of the City, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, March 23-April 27, 2024. From left: Highway, 1984; Yellow Sky, 1986. Courtesy David Kordansky Gallery.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, Skin of the City, March 22-April 27
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, Martha Diamond: Deep Time, July 13-Oct. 13
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn., Martha Diamond: Deep Time, Nov. 17-May 18, 2025
2021 Magenta Plains, New York, Martha Diamond: 1980–1989
2018 Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, Martha Diamond: Cityscapes
2017 Harper’s Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y., Martha Diamond: Broad Strokes
2016 Alexandre Gallery, New York, Martha Diamond: Recent Paintings
2014 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, N.Y., Martha Diamond: Paintings
2012 Sue Scott Gallery, New York, Martha Diamond: Bright Brush Paintings
2004 New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, Martha Diamond: From Three Decades
2003 G Watson Gallery, Stonington, Maine
2001 G Watson Gallery
1994 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Martha Diamond: Paintings
1990 Robert Miller Gallery, Martha Diamond
1989 Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Colo.
Installation view, Martha Diamond: Paintings, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, January 29-March 24, 1988. From left: High View, 1985; High C, 1982; Windows, 1984. Courtesy Bowdoin College Museum of Art
1988 Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Martha Diamond: Paintings
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Martha Diamond: Prints
Robert Miller Gallery, Martha Diamond
1986 Robert Miller Gallery, Martha Diamond: Small Oil Paintings
1985 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, Martha Diamond: New Paintings
1984 Brooke Alexander Gallery, Martha Diamond: Monotypes 1982-1984
1983 Brooke Alexander Gallery, Martha Diamond: New Paintings
1982 Brooke Alexander Gallery
1981 Brooke Alexander Gallery
1980 Brooke Alexander Gallery, Martha Diamond: Small Paintings
1978 Brooke Alexander Gallery, Martha Diamond: Paintings
1976 Brooke Alexander Gallery
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. Photo: Matthew Herrmann. Copyright © Hill Art Foundation
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 White Columns, New York, Looking Back/The 14th White Columns Annual, selected by Randy Kennedy
2023 Hill Art Foundation, New York, Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained, exploring affinities between works of art, curated by David Salle
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, Maine in America 2023: A Celebration of the Alex Katz Foundation
2022 Karma, New York, Painting in New York: 1971–83, female painters impacted by feminism’s second wave, curated by Ivy Shapiro
Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, Painting as Is II, curated by Heidi Hahn and Tim Wilson
Westwood Gallery, New York, Artists on the Bowery Part 3
The Drawing Center, New York, 2022 Benefit Auction
2021 Zürcher Gallery, New York, On the Bowery, curated by Loren Munk
2020 Skarstedt, New York, In Her Hands: Martha Diamond, Chantal Joffe, and Nicole Wittenberg, three female “painter’s painters,” curated by David Salle
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, Mich., Glimpse: Fine Print Selections from Stewart & Stewart 1980–2020
2019 Rental Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y., Vanquishing Ocular, curated by David Salle and Nicole Wittenberg
Peter Freeman, New York, Downtown Painting, artists echoing the spirit of the downtown art scene in the 1950s and ’60s, curated by Alex Katz
2017 Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, Visionary Painting, artists in dialogue with the work of Marsden Hartley, curated by Alex Katz
Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, N.Y., SITE/SIGHT, curated by Ellen Kozak
Installation view, Nice Weather, curated by David Salle, Skarstedt, February 25-April 16, 2016. From left: Alex Katz, Marisa, 2016; Martha Diamond, Cityscape with Red, 2004. Courtesy Skarstedt
2016 Skarstedt, New York, Nice Weather, curated by David Salle
Bortolami Gallery, New York, I Beam U Channel
Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Long Island City, N.Y., Paint Heads, curated by Charles Marburg
2013 Industry City, Brooklyn, Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, commemorating the courage and resiliency of the New York art community. Curated by Phong Bui; organized by the Brooklyn Rail with the support of the Dedalus Foundation, the Jamestown Charitable Foundation and Industry City Associates
2012 Colby College Museum of Art, Interior Visions: Selections from the Collection by Alex Katz, curated by Alex Katz
2010 Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan, Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting (Za Fukei)
New York Studio School, Decameron: David Cohen's decade of exhibitions at the New York Studio School, 2000-2010
CUE Art Foundation, New York, That Is Then. This Is Now.
2009 Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Brussels, Primitif Compliqué, curated by Merlin James
2008 Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, Del., Bearden to Ruscha: Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art
2007 Colby College Museum of Art, Contemporary Art at the Colby College Museum of Art: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation
Brik Gallery, Catskill, N.Y., Cowgirls 2: The Eclectic All-Woman Show
2005 Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, Detroit, Mich., The Art of Screenprint
2004 The Painting Center, New York, The Anxious Image
2002 Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, Cal., Works on Paper Published by Stewart & Stewart
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., New Spring Faculty
The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H., and Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Series
2001 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 2001 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
1999 G Watson Gallery, Stonington, Maine
1998 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, N.C., Inventing the American Landscape: A Dialogue with the Visual World.
1997 Queens Museum of Art, Queens, N.Y., Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century
U.S. Department of State, Havana, Cuba, Art in Embassies
1996 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, New Faculty
1995 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, New Faculty
1994 North Carolina Museum of Art, New York, New York, Recent Cityscapes: Paintings by Martha Diamond, Jane Dickson, Yvonne Jacquette, David Kapp
Barneys on Seventh Ave, New York, Red Windows, benefit for the Little Red Schoolhouse sponsored by Barneys and Christie's
1992 Robert Miller Gallery, Martha Diamond, Louise Fishman, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman, and Bernard Piffaretti: Paintings
Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn., Urban Realities: Contemporary Portraits of New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Singular and Plural: Recent Accessions, Drawings and Prints 1945-1991
College of Communication, Fine Arts & Media, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Emerging New York Artists: An Exhibit from the Collection of Phil Schrader
1991 American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1991 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, Prints by Martha Diamond and James DeWoody
Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, Mass., Inclusion/Exclusion: City Life
Miramar Gallery, Sarasota, Fla., Women Artists
1990 American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1990 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
Robert Miller Gallery, Some Seventies Works
Lintas Worldwide, New York, A Little Night Music: Manhattan in the Dark
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., Intaglio Printing in the 1980s
Installation view, 1989 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 18-July 16, 1989. On wall, from left: Martha Diamond, Three Lights, 1988; Martha Diamond, Red Light, 1988. On floor: Meg Webster, Earth Stage, 1989. Photograph by Geoffrey Clements, courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art
1989 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1989 Biennial, curated by Richard Armstrong, John G. Hanhardt, Richard Marshall, and Lisa Phillips
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The 1980s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wis., Urban Images
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Landscape
Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., Two Boliou Alumnae: The Art of Martha Diamond and Donna Dennis
Kuznetsky Most Exhibition Hall, Moscow, American Painting Since the Death of Painting, curated by Donald Kuspit and presented in association with the U.S.S.R. Union of Artists
1988 Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Selections from the Collection
1987 A.P. Giannini Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, Urban Images: Scenes of the City
Ruth S. Harley University Center Gallery, Adelphi University, Garden City, N.Y., Urban Visions: The Contemporary Artist and New York
City without Walls, Newark, N.J., Artchildren/Artselves
1986 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, and New York Academy of Art, Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I., Life in the Big City
1985 Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, Night Lights: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Nocturnes
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Art of the 1970’s and 80’s
Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, One of a Kind: Monotypes from the Collection
1984 Whitney Museum of American Art (Downtown Branch), MetaManhattan, works that contribute to a transformation of Manhattan
Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., Contemporary Triptychs
Florence Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Penn., Night Paintings
Dart Gallery, Chicago, Night Lights
1983 Museum of Modern Art, New York, Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, A Celebration of American Women Artists: Part II, Recent Generation
Brooklyn Museum, The American Artist as Printmaker: The 23rd National Print Exhibition
Brooklyn Army Terminal, Terminal New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Brave New Work: Recent American Paintings and Drawings
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Del., New York, New Art: Contemporary Paintings from New York Galleries
American Center in Paris, Turbulences
1982 Brooke Alexander Gallery, Gallery Group
Brooke Alexander Gallery, Selected Prints III
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Visiting Artists’ Invitational
1981 Museum of Modern Art, New York, Prints: Acquisitions 1977-1981
Brooke Alexander Gallery, Paintings
Louis Abrons Arts for Living Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, Exchanges III
1980 Boston College Art Gallery, Newton, Mass., Almost Abstract
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Ore., Drawing of a Different Nature
Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., Diamond, Lieberman, Lipski: Recent Works
1979 Cartwright Hall, Bradford, England, Sixth British International Print Biennale
1978 Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Thick Paint
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y., Paintings ’75, ’76, ’77
1977 Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Arts, Buffalo, N.Y., New Abstract Objects
1974 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn., Tenth Anniversary Exhibition 1964-1974
1973 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Reflections 1972-73