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My America on Kickstarter click here to support 

My America published by GOST books. Nov 2023. 

Works from Evidence in the Blavatnik Art, Film, and Photography Galleries at the Imperial War Museum. From Nov 2023. 

Acquisition: The Imperial War Museum. Seven pieces from Evidence. Nov 2022. 

Acquisition: The British Museum
Evidence The Artist Book 9/10 Jan 2022

The British Museum Evidence and The Return : an Intervention by Diana Matar and Hisham Matar December 12th 2021 - May 31st 2022. 

TÊTE À TÊTE  at Purdy Hicks Gallery. Reopens on April 12, 2021 in accordance to government guidelines. 

Nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. March 2021

TÊTE À TÊTE  solo exhibition by Diana Matar. Purdy Hicks Gallery, London. 10 December 2020 - 16 January 2021. (Extended due to Covid restrictions) 

PhotoLondon Live. October  13th 2020 7pm BST.Diana Matar in Conversation with Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums. You can watch the talk here. 

PhotoLondon Magazine Diana Matar Issue 19 Autumn 2020

TÊTE À TÊTE in Granta 152: Still Life. July 30 2020.

SFMOMA, San Francisco USA . My America showing in American Geography curated by Sandra Philipps. September 2020. (Cancelled until further notice due to Covid 19) Group Exhibition.

Photo London May 13- 17 2020. Showing with Purdy Hicks Gallery. (Delayed until October 2020 due to Covid 19) 

Musee de la Photographie a Charleroi . Diana Matar My America EXTENDED to September 20,2020

Musee de la Photographie a Charleroi . Diana Matar My America Solo Exhibition. January 25th - May 10th 2020. Charleroi Belgium.

Museo  Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli Residency May -June  2019

Fuoriclassico Festival MANN Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli Artist Talk and Presentation Spaces Without Bodies Diana Matar My America. May 2nd 2019.

Granta 146 The Politics of Feeling American Orchard by Diana Matar with an introduction by Max HoughtonJanuary, 2019.

Women in Focus ICP Photography and Social Change Diana Matar presenting My America  Ned Hotel London. November 14 2018. 

Diana Matar Artist Talk. Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago  Now online. Listen Here. 

Acquisition: The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago acquired 10 pieces from Evidence and Disappearance. May 2018.

Acquisition The Museum of Fine Arts Houston acquired 3 limited edition prints from Evidence.The acquisition was made possible by a generous gift  from Charles Dee Mitchel.  

Acquisition: Hirsch Library at the The Museum of Fine Arts Houston. My America limited edition artist book.The acquisition was made possible by a generous gift from Joan Morgenstern. April 2018.

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Diana Matar: Lecture in Photography.Jan. 24 2018 6:00 pm. Stage Two, 618 S.Michigan Ave. Chicago lL 60605. 

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.Traversing the Past: Adam Golfer, Diana Matar Hrvoje Slovenc. Jan. 18 - April 1, 2018 

ICP Museum New York Panelist: Female Photographers NowOct. 25 2017 6:30PM

Firecrackers Female Photographers Now.Thames and Hudson Publication Oct. 2017 

Imperial War Museum London Panelist: Art, Justice and Terror  With Edmund Clark, Hilary Roberts, Fred Ritchin, and Diana Matar. June 17, 2017. 

Photo London Talks FT Weekend Presents:This Violent Land Diana Matar in conversation with Aaron Schumann Friday 19 May 2017,  6:30 - 7:30 pm Somerset House London UK. 

Ford Foundation Project Grant December 2016 for My America


Purdy Hicks Gallery

Diana Matar 

Solo Exhibition 

London, United Kingdom

May 12th - June 6th 

2016

Reviews:

Economist 1843 Magazine

The Financial Times

London Photography Diary


Fotofest Biennial 

Evidence 

Winter Street Studios

Houston, Texas, USA

March 12th - April 25th 2016

Review: 

Unseen Eye


Photo London 

Showing with 

Purdy Hicks Gallery

May 19th - 22nd 2016  

Review: 

Photomonitor


Tate Modern Talk 

Photographing History 

In conversation with 

Simon Baker and Shoair Mavlian. 

Now online.


Paris Biennale of Contemporary 

Photography from the Arab World

Institut du Monde Arabe 
Paris, France.
10 November 2015 - 17 January 2016 


Paris Photo
Martyrs and Dictators 

New Works showing with
Purdy Hicks Gallery
Paris, France
12 - 15 November 2015 


Alwan Center for The Arts

Artist Talk

13 October 2015

7pm

16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor

New York, NY 10004
 

Rick Wester Fine Art 
Solo Exhibition Evidence 

Extended Date 

through 7 November 2015

Book Signing 17 September 6 - 8 pm
526 W 26th St #417,
New York, NY 10001

GoEun Museum of Photography
46 works from Evidence
showing in TWO MOONS
Busan, Korea
29 August - 25 November 2015

Artist Talk 30 August 2015


Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Evidence showing in
Conflict Time Photography
Dresden, Germany.

31 July - 25 October 2015


Museum Folkswang

Evidence showing in
Conflict Time Photography 

10 April - 5 July 2015 

Essen Germany


TATE MODERN

Photographing History:

Hrair Sarkissian, Chloe

Dewe Mathews and Diana

Matar join curators Simon

Baker in conversation. 

February 16 2015 

You can here the talk Here


Arts Club London.

Diana Matar in conversation

with Simon Baker,

curator of photography

and international art

Tate Modern. 

January 8 2015.


TATE MODERN 

Evidence in the exhibition

Conflict,Time,Photography

November 25 2014 -  March 15 2015


Purdy Hicks Gallery

November 27 2014

Book Launch 

with a talk by philosopher Devorah Baum

You can see the talk recorded here.


PARIS PHOTO 

Book signing 

November 14 5pm

stand D/40 

Grand Palais. Paris


PARIS PHOTO 

November 13 - 16  2014

Showing with

Purdy Hicks Gallery stand D 40 in the Grand Palais. 


November  2014

Monograph of Evidence 

published by

Schilt Publishing,

Amsterdam.


September  2014

Evidence awarded 

Arts Council England Grant for Individual Artists


Recent Reviews for Evidence:

Best Books of 2014 The New Yorker

Best Photography Books of 2014 The Telegraph

Best Photography Books of 2014 The Independent

Selected by Yumi Goto on PhotoBookStore

National Public Radio

The Culture Trip

Reviewed by Sean O'Hagan in the Guardian

Interview with Middle East Monitor

Tate Etc. Magazine Autumn digital issue

The Economist Get Addicted To


Summer and Autumn  2014 - New Acquisitions:

The Victoria and Albert Museum

The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

The Harry Ransom Center 

Michigan State University

The Charles Dee Mitchell Collection on Violence in the 21st Century.

 

7pm September 9th  2014.

Evidence: Photography and Political Disappearance 

Artist's Lecture at Michigan State University Library 

 

December  2013

Disappearance and Evidence featured in Ojodepez 35


September  2013 

Work published in Internazionale. 


April 2013 

Work published in the The New Yorker Magazine and

  New Yorker photo booth



        




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