home     recent work     archives     cv     info     search

CV

Education

2004

BFA-Studio Painting (summa cum laude), University of Houston, Houston, TX

Solo Show

2007

New Landscape Paintings, Harris Gallery, Houston, TX

Group Exhibitions

2008

Gulf-South Regional Contemporary Exhibition, BECA Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2007-2008

Art on Loan, Houston City Hall Annex, (juried by Gus Kopriva), Houston, TX

2007

Texas Art Walk Juried Art Show, (juried by Paul Hester: Rice U. and Anna Mod: UH), Fayetteville, TX

2007

Texas National 2007 (juried by Manual: Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom), Nacogdoches, TX

2004

Diverse Painting Exhibition, University of Houston-University Center, Houston, TX

2004

U of H Juried Painting Show, (juried by Peter Precourt), Commerce Street Artists Warehouse (CSAW) Gallery, Houston, TX

2004

Immodest Proposals: Unreasonable Public Art Projects for Houston (juried by Kevin Jefferies: Buffalo Bayou Art Park), CSAW Gallery, Houston, TX

2003

UH Graduate Show, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX

Art Advocate

2006-2007

Encaustic Student Exhibitions, Art League Houston, Houston, TX

2004-2009

Luck of the Draw, Diverseworks Fundraisers, Houston, TX

2005-2006

$100 Box Charity Fundraisers, Bering & James/Mindpuddles Galleries, Houston. TX

2005

Spacetaker Benefit Auction, Buffalo Bayout Art Park, Houston, TX

2003

50/50 UH Art Auction and Graduate Scholarship Fundraiser, Houston, TX

Curator Experience

2004

Co-curator: Diverse Painting Exhibition, UH-University Center, Houston, TX

Awards/Residencies

2007

Centrum Institute, Creative Residency, Fort Worden, WA

2007

Art Guild of Rural Texas, Best of 2D Award, Fayetteville, TX

2004

Immodest Proposals: Unreasonable Public Art Projects for Houston, Houston (juried by Kevin Jefferies: Buffalo Bayou Art Park), Third Place, Houston, TX

Articles/Publications

2008

The Great Landscape: The Next Big Thing, The Sky's The Limit, Southwest Art Magazine, February 2008, p. 110, p. 118, Illus.

2007

Ann Williams, Skyscapes, Diane Wilkinson explores the skies, Experience, Vol. 2, Issue 3, p. 14, Illus., online by Jordan Hartt, Skyscapes, www.centrum.org

2007

Texas National 2007, The Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Catalogue essay by Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill, p. 33, Illus.

Biography

Diane E. Wilkinson was born in Denver, Colorado to an American father and a Canadian mother. During childhood, she moved frequently attending ten different grade schools in the US and one in Holland. A High School art class introduced her to batik, clay sculpture, watercolor, acrylic media, and oils. The magical feel of the oil media captured her interest. She married an Australian-born Canadian, worked for several oil companies, began a family, formed a desktop publishing company (substituting computer graphics for oil painting while her two children grew), and moved another seven times, including the four international locations: Canada, Libya, Norway, and England. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BFA in Painting from the University of Houston.