Faculty

Shari Diamond is a queer American feminist photographic artist and educator. Born in Miami Beach, Florida, Diamond earned an M.A. in Photography from New York University/International Center of Photography. They currently live and work in New York City and Newburgh, New York.

Diamond’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Leslie-Lohman Museum, The New School Archives and Special Collections, and private collections. Their art has appeared in the television show Succession and the pilot Dietland and has been exhibited in numerous venues across the U.S., including the Samuel Dorsky Museum and the Leslie-Lohman Museum, as well as internationally in Mexico, Israel, and Japan. Diamond’s work is included in several publications, including Queer Holdings: A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Collection; Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989; Women Artists’ Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century; and Forbidden Subjects: Self-Portraits by Lesbian Artists.

They have twice received the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography, were awarded a New York State Legislature Arts & Culture Project Grant, and residencies at Blue Mountain Center, Saltonstall Arts Colony, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.

MA, New York University | International Center of Photography, New York NY 60-point three-year program equivalent to an MFA

BS in Art Education, University of Miami, FL

“Time Passes,” Self-Published Riso Printed Artist Book, Edition of 100, ISBN: 979-8-218-60985-6, 2025

“Re Imagining Relations”, Self-Published Book, Edition of 530, ISBN: 978-0-578-58920-6, 2020

“72 Assignments: The Foundation Course in Art & Design Today,” Edited by Chloe Briggs, PCA Press, 2013

“Hidden Children,” Journal, Co-Editor, 1993

Some BODY in New York, “Reactors Arts Magazine” No. 11, Art Foto, France, Co-Writer, 1992. p. 1-6

“Taboo: Bodies Talk”, Exhibition Catalogue, Co-Editor, 1992