About the artist:

Diana González Gandolfi is a Philadelphia-based artist who creates mixed media abstract paintings and prints informed by maps, scientific imagery and autobiographical data. She was born in Argentina and spent her formative years in Colombia and Indonesia before settling with her family in New York City. Her early experiences as a foreigner in many countries and an immigrant are a constant influence on her work.

She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad including the Painting Center, NYC; the Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ; Morpeth Contemporary, Hopewell, NJ; Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona; Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ; the Allentown Museum, PA; the Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ; The Newark Museum, NJ; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the DeCordova and Lincoln Sculpture Park and Museum, MA; the Bronx Museum of Art, NYC; the International Print Center, NYC; the Boston Public Library, MA; Bess Cutler Gallery, NYC; and the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ to name a few. Her most recent international exhibitions include Dialogue with Yinchuan: China-America International Printmaking Exhibition, Ningxia, China, and the 15th Tallinn Print Triennial – International Collaborative Mail Art Project: For Love Not Money at the Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia.

National and international collections that own her work include the Montclair, Zimmerli, Noyes, Hunterdon, Morris, and New Jersey State Museums in NJ, the Brevard Museum of Art in Florida, the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery and the University of Wollongong Art Collection in Australia, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Rutgers University, the Newark Public Library, and Princeton University Press among others. Throughout her career, her work has been in a number of publications and reviewed by the New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Star Ledger, and Art New England.

González Gandolfi’s fellowships and honors include a Residency Grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, a Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper Fellowship, a Medal of Honor in Printmaking from the National Association of Women Artist, a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Painting Fellowship, three New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships for Printmaking and Painting, and two Traveling Fellowships from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She has been an Artist-in- Residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and the Printmaking Center of New Jersey.

She holds a BFA from Tufts University, a Diploma and Fifth Year Graduate Certificates in Fine Arts from the Boston Museum School, and a Master of Education in Art Therapy from the Institute for the Arts and Human Development at Lesley University.