BIO

Diana is a self-taught artist, born in Portugal, with a background as an Interior Designer, she lived in Milan, and has been based in Kuala Lumpur since 2012.

 

Being a perfectionist, and slightly OCD when it comes to her life, she was drawn to action-painting, mainly the dual color works of Barbara Morgan and Lee Krasner, as an escape from self-control over her surroundings. But to create a sense of control in the uncontrolled strokes of action-painting, she started to blend many of her pieces with color blocks, where we can see the minimalist influence of Barnett Newman.

 

Since her first works in 2010, Diana has mostly worked using acrylic paint on canvas, but recently has started working with recycled kimono fabrics, in a collection she defines as Boro Kintsukuroi.

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Exhibitions:

2021 Galeria Azur, Madrid, Spain & Buenos Aires, Argentina

2021 Art is Fair, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2022 Art is Fair II, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2022 Paradox by Diana Graça Oliva (Solo Exhibition), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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