BIO

Diane Chi Hong is a practicing artist and architect working in Austin, Texas. She studied visual arts at the Fiorello LaGuardia High School of the Arts in New York City and architecture at Cornell University and Columbia University.

In her practice, she explores a variety of processes and methods of making, embracing an unplanned process that invites serendipity and chance. The works emerge organically through this process, which is simultaneously chaotic and liberating. Her work consists primarily of paintings and drawings where she experiments with age-old ideas and techniques of art making. As a life-long student of art history, she draws on both the art of the past and contemporary art. She sees art as a vehicle for engaging with the themes and ideas that have been with us for as long as people have made marks on rocks and she sees her work as contributing to this ongoing creative discourse. Her influences range from the Western Art canon, Eastern ceramics, contemporary cartoons to color theory. She reflects on how images are constructed and experienced while continuously developing her own unique visual language.

EDUCATION

1998: Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University, New York, USA
1993: Bachelor of Architecture, Cornell University, New York, USA
1988: Fiorello Laguardia School of the Arts, New York, USA

EXHIBITIONS

2024 Vessels - Handle With Care, AARC Art Exhibit, Austin, TX
2003 Future Ec(h)os Renewable Brooklyn Exhibit, Brooklyn, NY