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Diana Thater

2025 Milestone Grantee

Bio

Since emerging in the early 1990s, artist Diana Thater has pioneered the use of film, video, light, and sound, continually challenging the boundaries of time-based media and installation. Her work explores the relationship between the natural and man-made worlds while examining the structures of mediated reality. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including literature, animal behavior sciences, and sociology, her works directly engage their surroundings, producing an intricate relationship between time and space. Thater was born in San Francisco and studied Art History at NYU, before receiving her MFA from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. She has taught in the Graduate Art Program at ArtCenter for 30 years and is currently chair of the Art Department.

Chernobyl, 2011Installation with six video projections and window film

  • A dark room with three projectors displaying overlapping images of an abandoned interior, a red hammock, and tree branches onto angled white walls, creating an immersive, multi-layered visual installation.
  • A dark, green, multi-walled exhibition space with curved walls displaying nature-themed projections, and reflective flooring creating an immersive environment.A dark, futuristic exhibition space with curved walls displaying nature-themed projections, green and white lighting, and reflective flooring creating an immersive environment.
  • A large tent set up in a red-lit room displays projected images of trees and nature on its exterior. People stand around the tent, some approaching its entrance. Inside, a table and chairs are visible.
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