Dianne Blell

Lives and works in New York City, NY


EDUCATION

2005   Pratt Institute, NYC, Advanced Photoshop
2004   International Center for Photography, Photoshop
1982   Parsons School of Design, Fashion Photography, 4x5 Large Format Photography
1981   International Center for Photography, 35 mm Photography, Darkroom
1973   BFA, MFA, San Francisco Art Institute
1962   La Jolla Art Center, Drawing
1962   University of San Diego, A.A.

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2008    Desire for the Intimate Deity, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York. NY
1991   Wild Lives, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1990   Circus Animals Desertion, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989   Circus Animals Desertion, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
           Players and Painted Stage, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum,
           Champaign-Urbana, IL
1988   Dianne Blell Photographs, Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1986   ­Modern Romance,  Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI
1985   Pursuit of Love, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1984   Dianne Blell, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
1983   Various Fabulous Monsters, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
           Dianne Blell, C.E.P.A., Buffalo, NY
1980   Love/Hate, Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art (LAICA), Los Angeles, CA
           Charmed Heads and Urban Cupids, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979   Charmed Heads and Urban Cupids, Robert Stefanotti Gallery, New York, NY
1978   Portrait of a Lady, The Matrix Gallery University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1977   Oasis for a Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1976   Odalisque, Outdoor Billboard Installation & Video, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, CA
1975   Surrealism and the Blues, The Annual, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008   Romance, Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
2006   SCOPE HAMPTONS, Dinter Fine Art, New York City, NY
2005   Charmed, curated by Michael St. John and Jason Duval,
           Lower East Side Girls Club Art & Community Gallery, New York, NY
2002   Rapture, curated by Chris Townsend, Barbican Gallery, London, England
1996   Telling Stories, Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
1995   Kissing, traveling Art Exhibition, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994   Group Show, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991   Regarding the Figure, Philippe Daverio Gallery, New York, NY
1990   Seductive Deceptions: The Theatrical Image, University Gallery, University of
           Florida, Gainesville, FL
1990   Siggraph, traveling Art Exhibition, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1989   Photography of Invention, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian   
           Institute,Washington DC; traveled to: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,  
           IL, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
           Out of Bounds: Contemporary Long Island Photographers, Guild Hall Museum,
           East Hampton, NY
           Don’t Bungle the Jungle! Toni Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1987   Symbolic Narrative, Beaver College Gallery, Spruance Art Center, Glenside, PA
           Leo Castelli and His Artists: 30 Years of Promoting Contemporary Art,
           Centro Cultural Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City, Mexico         
           A Visible Order: An Exhibition of Contemporary Still Life Photography, University of
           Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
           The Spiral of Artificiality, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
           Leo Castelli and Castelli Graphics at Gabrielle Breyers, Gabrielle Breyers Gallery, New York, NY
           Three Decades of Exploration: Hommage to Leo Castelli, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1986   Signs of the Real, White Columns, New York, NY
           Before the Camera, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
           Photographic Fiction, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield, NY
           Olympus Revisited, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
1985   Messages From 1985, Light Gallery, New York, NY
           Picture Frame Frame Picture, Gabrielle Breyers, New York, NY
1984   Bomb Magazine, Blum-Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
1983   Artists’ Photographs, Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA
           Reallegory, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
           Group Show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
           Invention and Allegory, Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York, NY
1981   Group Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1980   Space/Time/Sound-A Decade in the Bay Area-1970’s, (Video), San Francisco Art
           Institute, San Francisco, CA
1979   Group Show, Robert Stefannoti Gallery, New York, NY
1978   Group Show, Lawson De Celle, San Francisco, CA
1977   Group Show, CARP , Video, Los Angeles, CA
1976   Group Show, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, CA
1975   Bay Area Artists, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
1973   Drawing Invitational, Emmanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2003   Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY
2003   New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, New York, NY
1989   National Endowment for the Arts/Arts Fellowship
1989   John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Photography
1988   Working Grant , Applied Graphics Technologies, New York, NY
1988   Art Matters, Inc/ Project Grant
1980   National Endowment for the Arts/Arts Fellowship
1973   Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute MFA Program

TEACHING POSITIONS

1977   Claremont Graduate School, Visiting Artist, Claremont, CA
1982   New York University, Artist/Student Internship Program, Graduate Photography Department,
           Instructor in Art and Art Education, New York, NY, Spring Semester
1983   New York University, Graduate Critique Program, New York, NY, Spring Semester
1984   Harvard University, Guest Artist, Modern Art History Studies, Directorial Photography,
           Cambridge, MA, Fall Semester
1985   New York University, Instructor in Art and Education, Graduate Critic Program, New York, NY,
           Spring Semester
1986   New York University, Instructor in Art and Education, New York, NY, Fall Semester



 
SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Judith Auchincloss, New York, NY
Charles Cowles, New York, NY
Phillipe Daverio, New York City, NY
Dorie Friedenrich Fine Art Ltd, California
Alanna Heiss & Fred Sherman, New York, NY
Austin Hills, San Francisco, California
Alan Jones, London, England
Lana Jokel, New York, NY
William Judson, Judson realty, New York, NY
Aron Katz, Boulder, Colorado
Karl Lagerfeld, Paris, France
Jenny & Trey Laird, New York, NY
Tommy Morrison, Palm Beach, Florida
Alexandra Marshall, Sun Valley, Idaho
Ed Ruscha, Venice, CA
Robert Rosenblum, New York, NY
William Wegman, New York, NY
Lawrence Weiner, New York, NY


SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

Bershad, Deborah, Paul Laster and Renee Riccardo. The Spiral of Artificiality, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, 1987
------. XXX Anos de Promocion del Arte Contemporaneo, Leo Castelli and His Artists,
          Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico,1987
Feinstein, Roni. Photographic Fictions, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1986
Foley, Suzanne. Space/Time/Sound Conceptual Art In The San Francisco Bay Area: The 70’s,
          San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1981, pps. 16, 21, 29, 30, 163,171,
          173, 187
Frascella, Larry and Charles Stainback. Before the Camera; A Selection of Contemporary Studio
         Tableaux, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, 1986
Hamburg Kennedy, Marla and Susan Martin. Kissing, Graystone Books, Marina del Rey, 1995
Karabinis, Paul. Telling Stories, Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, FL, 1996
McLanahan, Lynn. SPOT, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, 1984
Naif, Weston. Gallery of World Photography; New Directions in Photography, Sueisha Publishing
         Company, Tokyo, Japan, 1984
Singerman, Howard. Blell, Dianne, LAICA Newsletter, October, No. 69, Los Angeles Institute of
         Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1980
Smith, Joshua. The Photography of Invention; American Pictures of the 1980’s, National Museum
         of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989
Townsend, Chris. Ambivalent Embrace, Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion, London, England,
         pps. 42-43, 2002
TriQuarterly 47; Love/Hate, Northwestern University, Evanston,IL, 1980
------. Domus, USA ’76, December, 1976, No. 565, p.53
------. The Annual, catalogue of exhibitions, published by San Francisco Art Institute.
          San Francisco, CA, 1977
------. Matrix/Berkeley 9, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, May/June, 1978
------. Oh You Punk! Love Didi, Slash, San Fransico, CA, February 1978, Vol. 1 No. 8, p. 2
------. Rapture, curated by Chris Townsend, Barbican Gallery, London, England
------. Soho News, New York, NY November 29, 1979, Vol. 7, No. 9, p. 18
------. Reallegory, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, 1983
------. Three Decades of Exploration, Homage to Leo Castelli, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1987

SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2004   ------. Elle Décor, October, p. 240
2003   Comer, Stuart. Capitalist Neo-Realism Parkett, No. 69, pps. 147 & 151
           Wood, Catherine. Dianne Blell in Conversation with Catherine Wood, Untitled
           Contemporary Art, London, England, Winter/Spring. Chapter 42.
2000   Sheridan, Sansegundo. All Her World is a Stage, East Hampton Star, East Hampton, NY
           pps. 7-10
1997   ------. The Dyer’s Hand, House & Garden, New York, NY, March, pps. 146-147
1991   ------. New York Times, For Children, “Wildlives,” October 11, p. C6
1991   Medwick, Cathleen. Wild Hopes, Mirabella, August, pps. 34-37
1991   ------. New Observations, No. 86, pp. 1,2 & 3`
1989   ------. Dianne Blell, Photo/Design, New York, NY, July/August, pps. 98-99
1989   ------. The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, Photography, “Dianne Blell,” March
1988   ------. Calendar, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, part VI, April 15, 1988
1987   ------. Palm Beach Post, TGIF Section, Friday October 30, p. 32
1986   Leopold, Sarah. Dianne Blell, The Badger Herald, Madison, Wisconsin, Sept. 18th
           Stockinger, Jacob. Capital Times, Madison, WI
           Thornton, Gene. Photography View, The New York Times, New York, NY, March 2, p. 29
           ------. Art Das Kunst Magazin, Berlin, Germany, January, cover
1985   Cohen, Michelle. Dianne Blell, Flash Art, New York, NY, October-November, No.
           124, p. 51
           Henry, Gerrit. Dianne Blell, Art in America, New York, NY, November, Vol. 73, No.
           11, p. 166
           Larrain, Christine. Dianne Blell, Zoom Magazine, (English Edition) London, England,
           No. 29, pps. 22-27
           ------. Dianne Blell. Zoom Magazine, (European Edition), Milano, Italy No. 117, pps. 38-43
           Mueller, Cookie. Art & About, Details, New York, NY, June, Vol. IV, No. 1, p. 64
           ------. Special USA, City Magazine International, New York, NY, No. 12-27F, p. 24
1984   Becker, Robert. Room With A View, Interview, New York, NY, November, Vol. XIV,
           No. II, p. 144
           ------. Cover, Bomb Magazine, New York, NY Fall, No. 10
           ------. Das Neue Bild Vom Mann, Bunte, November 29, pps. 35 + cover
1983   Adams, Brooks. Dianne Blell at Castelli, Greene Street, Art in America, April, Vol.
           71, No. 4, p.183
           Annas, Teresa. Reallegory: Art That’s More Than You See, The Virginian-Pilot, Hampton
           Roads, NY, April 10, pps. 81, 84
           Blell, Dianne. Calendar with Artist’s Statement, C.E.P.A. Buffalo, NY
           Davis, Douglas. Big Pix, Newsweek, New York, NY, May 2, pps. 81, 84
           ------. Theatre and Photography, Bomb Magazine, New York, NY, No. 5, pps. 29
1982   ------. Architectural Digest, New York, NY November, p.18
1981   Armstrong, Richard. Dianne Blell, Cirrus Gallery Los Angeles, Flash Art, New York, NY,
           March/April, No. 102, p. 45
           McDonald, Robert. Fashion In Art, San Diego Magazine, San Diego, CA, April, Vol. 33,
           No. 6, p. 125
1980   Conner, Maureen. Dianne Blell at Stefanotti, Art In America, New York, NY, March,
           Vol. 68. No. 3, p. 123
           Muchnic, Suzanne. The Galleries Downtown, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA,
           October 24, part VI, p. 16
1979   Larsen, Kay. Fashion Statements, The Village Voice, New York, NY, December 24, p. 89
1978   Albright, Thomas. A Matrix of Art, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, June 2
           Auping, Michael. Dianne Blell, Matrix/Berkeley 9, May-June, University Art Museum,
           Berkeley, CA
1977   Bandini, Mirella. Dianne Blell, Flash Art, New York, NY, August, 1977, No. 76./77. p. 7
           Morch, Albert. Desert Song, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, CA, June 15, p. 23
           Steger, Pat. Dianne’s Mirage, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, CA, June 16, p. 21
1976   Kramer, Larry. Broadway’s Latest: An Artistic Nude?, The San Francisco Examiner,
           San Francisco, CA, September 8
           McDonald, Robert. Outdoor Odalisque, Artweek, San Francisco, CA, September. 4,
           Vol. 7, No. 29, p 12
           Restany, Pierre. USA ’76, Domus, Milano, Italy, December, No. 565
1973   Dunham, Judith. SFAI: Drawing Invitational, Artweek, San Francisco, CA, April 7, vol 4,
           No. 14, p. 1