Diane Pieri

Philadelphia-born visual-artist Diane Pieri received a BFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture and studied in Rome, Italy, with the Temple Rome program.

Pieri has had more than 30 solo exhibitions and been included in more than 220 national and international group exhibitions. She has been the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, two Independence Foundation Fellowships in the Arts, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant. She has been a fellow at Yaddo artists' community in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the MacDowell artists' colony in Peterborough, NH. 

Her work is in the collections of institutions such as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; American Consulate in Hong Kong, China; Sapporo Hilton, Japan; State Committee for Culture and Art, Bucharest, Romania; Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Denver, CO; Aramark Corporation, Philadelphia; Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania; and State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg.

Pieri was an artist-in-residence at Mark di Suvero’s Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY, where she created a 15-foot sculpture made of rusted and gold-leafed can lids. In 2005, Pieri founded the Cooke Museum of Art, modeled after the Philadelphia Museum of Art, at the Jay Cooke Elementary School in North Philadelphia. She is a teaching-artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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