Diana Thater

Quick Facts

Full Name	Diana Thater
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	May 14, 1962(1962-05-14)
Age	62
Birthplace	San Francisco
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Taurus

Diana Thater Biography

Diana Thater is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on May 14, 1962 in San Francisco, California, United States. Diana Thater (born May 14 1962 in San Francisco) is an American artist writer, curator and educator. She has been an early creator of video, film, in addition to installation art, since the mid 1990s. She is a resident of Los Angeles, California.

Her work investigates the temporal properties of film and video, as well as expanding it in space. She is most famous for her site-specific works in which she alters the architectural space by forcing interactions with projections as well as colored light, like knots and the surfaces (2001) as well as Delphine (1999) within The Kulturkirche in St. Stephani (2009) as well as The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2010).

In 2011, Thater received an Award for Artistic Innovation from the Center for Cultural Innovation in Los Angeles. She used the grant to complete Chernobyl, a large-scale installation project which documents the post-human landscape at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant site in the Ukraine, marking the 25th anniversary of the explosion in 2011. She has been the recipient of other notable awards, including the Phelan Award in Film and Video (2006), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2005), an Étant-donnés Foundation Grant (1996), and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1993).

First exhibited in 2011, Thater’s Chernobyl showcases multiple footages recorded in Prypiat in Chernobyl. The exhibition consists of simultaneous display of multiple footages of different locations in Prypiat. The center of the exhibition is the footage of a movie theater and all four sides of the movie theater are projected on the gallery space. Over the projection of the movie theater, the other footages, such as buildings, animals and nature, are projected as well. This exhibition is not only about showing negative human impact on nature, but to also show how life still persists even under such condition.

In the year 2000, Thater has been the artist-in residence for The Dolphin Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting cetaceans from captivity, slaughter and cruelty. Since 2009 Diana Thater taught art at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Diana Thater Net Worth

Diana Thater is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Diana Thater 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Thater was a student of Art History at New York University and graduated with a BA degree in 1984. In 1990, she was awarded an MFA from the Art Center College of Design.

From her debut solo exhibition that she held in the year 1991 Thater exhibits widely across North America and Europe, with one-person shows in The Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane (2011) as well as at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (2010), Kunsthaus Graz in collaboration with London’s Natural History Museum (2009), Dia Center for the Arts (2001), Vienna Secession (2000), The Museum of Modern Art (1998), MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (1998), the Walker Art Center (1997) and The Kunsthalle Basel (1996), Salzburger Kunstverein (1996), The Renaissance Society (1995) as well as The Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (1994), in addition to many other. in March of 2004, The Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen as well as The Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany launched a two-museum retrospective of the work of her from 1993 until 2003.

Her numerous group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial (2006, 1997, 1995) and the Carnegie International (1999).

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Diana Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Diana Thater celebrates birthday on May 14 of every year.