“Martha Diamond’s paintings are based on vision, nuance, gesture, light, reflection, and atmosphere. The work is elegant, hip, compelling and thoroughly modern. This is serious painting, uncompromised, deep, and infinitely rewarding.”

—American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2001

 

Honors and Awards

2018 National Academician, National Academy of Design

2017 Anonymous Was a Woman Award

2015 Individual Support Grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation

2013 Art Purchase Program, American Academy of Arts and Letters

2001 Arts and Letters Award for Art / Art Purchase Program, American Academy of Arts and Letters

1993 Individual Support Grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation

1985 Fellow in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts

1983 Painting Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

1980 Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

Installation view, William D. Adams Gallery, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 2023. From left: Martha Diamond, Palisades (1982); Martin Puryear, Up and Over (2014). Photo: Luc Demers

Academic Positions

2001-2002 Visiting lecturer, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

1996, 1998 Visiting artist, Yale Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, Conn.

1995-1996 Visiting lecturer, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

1984, 1995 Guest artist, Cooper Union School of Art, New York

1983, 1995 Visiting artist, Graduate Painting Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

1982-2018 Board of Governors, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, Maine

1979-1980 Artist-in-residence, Learning Through Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

1977, 1983 Resident faculty, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, Maine

Martha Diamond: Recent Paintings. New York: Alexandre Gallery, 2016

Martha Diamond: Deep Time. New York: DelMonico Books | The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum / Colby College Museum of Art, 2024

Publications

2024 Martha Diamond: Deep Time, monograph with a foreword by museum directors Cybele Maylone and Jacqueline Terrassa; an essay by exhibition curators Levi Prombaum and Amy Smith-Stewart; a remembrance by Frank Rose; poems and essays by Eileen Myles, Bill Berkson, Vincent Katz and John Godfrey; a chronology by OIivia Funk, and 79 color plates. New York: DelMonico Books | The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum / Colby College Museum of Art. 192 pages, hardbound, $45.

2023 Painting in New York, 1971-83. With essays by Hilton Als, Elizabeth Hess, Lucy Lippard and Ivy Shapiro. New York: Karma Books. 268 pages, hardbound, $60.

2021 On the Bowery, exhibition catalogue, curated by Loren Munk. New York: Zürcher Gallery

2020 Collaboration in Print: Stewart & Stewart Fine Art Print Selections 1980–2020, exhibition catalogue. Bloomfield Hills, Mich.: Stewart & Stewart

2017 Visionary Painting, exhibition catalogue, curated by Alex Katz. Waterville, Maine: Colby College Museum of Art

SITE/SIGHT, exhibition catalogue with an essay by Carter Ratcliff. Saugerties, N.Y.: Cross Contemporary Art

2016 Martha Diamond: Recent Paintings, exhibition catalogue with an appreciation by Alex Katz and poem by John Godfrey. New York: Alexandre Gallery. 36 pages, softbound, $20.

2015 Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, exhibition catalogue. Jack Flam, ed. Milan: Skira / Dedalus Foundation

Bowery Artist Tribute, Vol. 4. New York: New Museum

2010 That Is Then. This Is Now, exhibition catalogue by Irving Sandler and Robert Storr. New York: CUE Art Foundation

Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting, exhibition catalogue (in English and Japanese). Nagoya, Japan: Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts

2005 Collaboration in Print: Stewart & Stewart Screenprints 25th Anniversary, exhibition catalogue. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts

2004 The Anxious Image, exhibition catalogue. New York: The Painting Center

2002 Series, exhibition catalogue with essay by Ilka Scobie. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press

2001 VES Faculty 01/02. Cambridge, Mass.: Department of Visual and Environmental Studies | Harvard University

1995 Painting Faculty, exhibition catalogue. New York: Cooper Union School of Art

1994 New York, New York — Recent Cityscapes: Paintings by Martha Diamond, Jane Dickson, Yvonne Jacquette, David Kapp, exhibition catalogue by Huston Paschal, with a memoir of the city by John Rosenthal. Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Museum of Art

1990 Martha Diamond: An Exhibition of Paintings, exhibition catalogue with poem and essay by Eileen Myles. New York: Robert Miller Gallery

Intaglio Printing in the 1980s, exhibition catalogue by T. Victoria Hansen. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press

1989 1989 Biennial Exhibition, exhibition catalogue with foreword by Tom Armstrong and introduction by Richard Armstrong, Richard Marshall and Lisa Phillips. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art/W.W. Norton

The 1980s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, exhibition catalogue by Charles M. Ritchie with Thomas Coolsen. Ruth E. Fine, ed. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art

1988 Martha Diamond, exhibition catalogue with essay by John Coffey. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Martha Diamond, exhibition catalogue with essay by Stephen Westfall. New York: Robert Miller Gallery

1986 Landscape Seascape Cityscape, exhibition catalogue with essay by Lowery S. Sims. New Orleans: Contemporary Arts Center

1984 New Art. Phyllis Freeman, Eric Himmel, Edith Pavese and Anne Yarowsky, eds. New York: Harry N. Abrams

MetaManhattan, exhibition catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art

A Celebration of American Women Artists. Part II: The Recent Generation, exhibition catalogue. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery

1983 The Art of New York. Seymour Chwast and Steven Heller, eds.; introduction by James Atlas. New York: Harry N. Abrams

1981 Exchanges III, exhibition catalogue. New York: Henry Street Settlement

Art at Work, exhibition catalogue. Minneapolis: General Mills Art Collection

1979 Sixth British International Print Biennale, exhibition catalogue. Bradford, Eng.: Bradford Art Galleries and Museums

1978 Thick Paint, exhibition catalogue with essay by Carter Ratcliff. Chicago: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago

1974 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition 1964-1974, exhibition catalogue. Ridgefield, Conn.: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art

1973 Second Annual Contemporary Reflections 1972-73, exhibition catalogue. Ridgefield, Conn.: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art

1970 Life Magazine, Tom Veitch, ed. New York: The Poetry Project

1969 Best & Company, Bill Berkson, ed. New York: Bill Berkson