Diana al-Hadid, Night Journey (Mineral Spirit), 2024.
Linen pulp paint and cotton blowout on abaca base sheet. 40h x 30w in.

Diana al-Hadid, Medusa Rust, 2023.
Linen pulp paint and cotton blowout on abaca base sheet. 30h x 40w in.

Diana al-Hadid, Night Journey (Gold Smoke), 2024.
Linen pulp paint and cotton blowout on abaca base sheet. 40h x 30w in.

Diana Al-Hadid, Night Journey (Dark Matter), 2024.
Linen pulp paint and cotton blowout on abaca base sheet. 40h x 30w in.

“Al-Hadid achieved the same effect in her paper works: in throwing herself completely into this new medium and process, the artist discovered she could paint with paper itself, rather than on it. Finally, she said, “paper made sense.” Indeed, the Lab Grant Residency has introduced this new material into her vocabulary and opened up an ongoing collaboration with Dieu Donné. “This is where I’m most at home: this kind of event horizon of learning with materials,” she says. “How do you make something where there’s such a range of possibilities in it? With paper, there’s so much life and metaphor. It’s so pregnant with discovery.”

—Excerpt from Drips by Jenn Bratovich, for Diana-Al Hadid Lab Grant Publication No. 19, Dieu Donné

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About the Artist

Diana Al-Hadid examines the historical frameworks and perspectives that continue to shape discourse on culture and materials today. With a practice spanning sculpture, wall reliefs, and works on paper, the artist weaves together enigmatic narratives that draw inspiration from both ancient and modern civilizations. Al-Hadid’s rich allegorical constructions are born from art historical religious imagery, ancient manuscripts, female archetypes, and folkloric storytelling.

Born in Aleppo, Syria in 1981, Al-Hadid lives and works between upstate New York and Brooklyn, NY. She received a BFA in Sculpture and a BA in Art History from Kent State University (2003); an MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University (2005); and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2007). She has been the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, and The Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award. She is also a USA Rockefeller Fellow and was awarded a Fellowship with the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program. Al-Hadid’s work can be found in numerous institutional collections worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, among others.