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Diana Guerrero-Maciá
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| Born | 1966 Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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| Education | Cranbrook Academy, Villanova University, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Penland School of Craft |
| Known for | Painting, collage, works on paper, sculpture |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Illinois Arts Council |
Diana Guerrero-Maciá (born 1966) is an American studio-based artist who has produced paintings, works on paper, prints and sculpture. She is known for her hybrid or "unpainted paintings"—works constructed with fabric cutwork, collage, stitching and dye that collapse boundaries between the fields of painting, fiber and design and challenge distinctions between "high" art and craft. Her largely abstract work samples and revises multiple materials, symbols and typography, and graphic elements such as grids, stripes and archetypal shapes to engage with color, iconography and diverse cultural movements and conventions.
Guerrero-Maciá has exhibited in solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA), Artpace and South Bend Museum of Art, and group exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Crocker Art Museum and John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC), among others. In 2021, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, following earlier awards from organizations including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and MacDowell. Her work belongs to the permanent collections of the Crocker Museum, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and South Bend Museum of Art. Guerrero-Maciá is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Biography
Guerrero-Maciá was born in 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio to Cuban immigrant parents. Her mother was a Spanish literature professor and quilter and her father an industrial design engineer and inventor. She earned a BFA from Villanova University in 1988, then spent a year working on social justice issues in the San Francisco area with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. In 1990, she enrolled in graduate studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where her work shifted from largely narrative, figural painting to non-traditional work involving textiles, craft-based processes, collage and appropriation, and the influence of lyrical poetry. After receiving an MFA from Cranbrook in 1992, she was awarded a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, where she developed relationships with other artists that encouraged her move to Chicago later that year.
Guerrero-Maciá had early solo shows at Artemisia Gallery and Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago and Forum for Contemporary Art in St. Louis. In 2001, she joined the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) after teaching at School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis (now the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts) from 1997 to 2001. She has taught in the Fiber & Material Studies and Painting & Drawing departments at SAIC, serving as chair of the former from 2016 to 2019.
Recognition
Guerrero-Maciá has received fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation (2021), Illinois Arts Council (2019) and MacDowell (2022, 2004, 1998) and an award from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2001). She has been awarded public art commissions from the Public Art Fund in New York and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Her work has been acquired by the public art collections of corporations, universities and museums including the Crocker Art Museum, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and South Bend Museum of Art.
