Bio:
Jamie Diamond (b. 1983, USA) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of intimacy, identity, technology, and performance. For over 15 years, she has investigated the evolving nature of human connection through photography, sculpture, video, performance, and film. Diamond frequently inserts herself into her work or collaborates with strangers, professional actors, and outsider artists to inhabit a wide range of characters and constructed identities. Her work blurs the boundaries between the authentic and the artificial, challenging conventional narratives around truth, persona, and intimacy.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, some of which include, Osservatorio, Fondazione Prada, Italy; Prada Mode, Hong Kong; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; Museum für neue Kunst, Germany; Mass MoCA, North Adams, The Bronx Museum, New York; Trapholt Museum, Denmark; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany; Fondazione La Triennale, Milan; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; and Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo.
In addition, Diamond served as cinematographer and producer on the short feature film, A Minor Variation (2018) and directed /produced Skin Hunger (2024) which was screened at the Watermill Center and the Anthology Film Archives.
Diamond is a recipient of the NYFA Fellowship Award in Photography, the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship Award, and The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation. She’s held Residencies at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Bronx Museum, MassMoCA, Mana Contemporary, The Watermill Center, The Church, and the LMCC Swing Space residency and Work Space. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, artnet, AnOther Magazine, Whitewall, Muse Magazine, Aperture, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Vanity Fair, The Architects Newspaper, Vogue, and Artsy. Diamond received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and BA from the University of Wisconsin in 2005. Since 2009, she has been lecturing in photography at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently the head of the Undergraduate Photography Department.
She lives and works in New York.
Statement:
For the past 15 years, I have been exploring themes of intimacy, memory, authenticity, and the increasingly porous boundary between reality and fiction. Using a multidisciplinary approach—spanning photography, performance, and video—I examine the construction of identity and the evolving nature of relationships in a world saturated with technology.