Diana Copperwhite
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Pastoral, 2025
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A Darker Star, 2025
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Jenga in the Blue, 2025
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Dilution , 2025
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Desert, 2025
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Calyso, 2025
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Depend on the Morning Sun, 2016
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Architecture Of Sound, 2022
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In the Shape of Shadows, 2019
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Wall Flowers, 2022
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A Scale of Things, 2022
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Blizzard, 2022
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Trace Element, 2019
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Green Light, 2016
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Trapdoor, 2022
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A Semi Solid Emotion, 2019
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Human Nature, 2022
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Chemical Allegro, 2019
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A Greener Lagoon, 2022
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Predilection for Fiction , 2016
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Noctiluca, 2022
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Calypso, 2018
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Moonbeam, 2022
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The Green Girl, 2022
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Tidle, 2022
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Dreamer, 2019
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Vienna Shadow, 2018
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Untitled #1, 2020
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Untitled #2, 2020
In her paintings, Diana Copperwhite explores the relationship between colors, gestures, figuration, and representation, harmonizing different visual strategies on the canvas. Copperwhite, who is based in Dublin, amalgamates images from the internet, photographs, and real life, unifying these sources in paintings that critically assess the medium’s ability to represent images, sensations, and ideas. “Painting is so physical but has the potential to do something very different to other media. . . . I think that aspects of technology are almost hypnotic and trance-like and this creates a space in my paintings that gives rise to what you might consider the psychedelic,” Copperwhite has said.
Diana Copperwhite’s work stems from an idiosyncratic practice that embraces the temporal nature of painting. This encompasses working with large-scale wall installations, large canvases and ongoing interest with the human portrait. Born 1969 in Limerick, she studied at the Limerick School of Art and Design, receiving a BA in painting at the National college of Art and Design, Dublin and went on to do an MFA at the Winchester School of Art and Design, Barcelona. Copperwhite is engaged with a sustained conceptual exploration of memory and abstraction. Using identifiable subjects, sometimes drawing on media images, she plays with light and color to create slightly unreal dreamlike and transitory compositions. The mood of her work is generally lyrical, creating an air of ambiguity of memories transformed in the unceasing passage of time. In a most unique capacity, she works over recognizable images, reworking their surface and adding rich layers, so that objects are transported in an entirely new direction into a fluid visual quality of being reimagined in singular vibrant ways.
Copperwhite's work is in many important public collections, including Irish Museum of Modern Art, Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Office of Public Works, Contemporary Irish Art Society, Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, Aland Finland, International Red Cross Netherlands, as well as private collections across Europe and the US, and in Australia. She has exhibited widely, including in London, Dublin, Tokyo, Sydney, Amsterdam, Barcelona, New York, France, Amsterdam. Her work is held in many important public collections including the Office of Public Works, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, as well as private collections in Ireland, across Europe and in the United States. Copperwhite was awarded the AIB Art Prize in 2007, which resulted in a major monograph and touring exhibition of her work. Her publication Fake New World was published to coincide with a wall drawing and exhibition at the RHA Gallery Dublin, and features a biography written by Gail Levin. She was a resident artist at the Josef Albers Foundation Connecticut (2012). She was a finalist in the Guasch Coranty Fundacio Painting Prize, Centre Cultural Metropolita Tecia Sala, Barcelona (2008) and was winner of the AIB Art Prize (2007).
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CAN Ibiza Art Fair (Contemporary Art Now)
Booth #: C3 25 - 29 Jun 2025The 4th edition of Contemporary Art Now already has a date: from June 25 to 29, 2025 , the FECOEV fairgrounds in Ibiza will once again become the epicenter of...Read more -
Anarene
22 Jun - 22 Jul 2023Anarene June 23 - July 22, 2023 Opening Reception: Thursday, June 22, 6 - 8 PM. Chelsea, New York: 532 Gallery is pleased to announce Anarene , an exhibition of...Read more -
CONTEXT Art Miami
29 Nov - 4 Dec 2022532 Gallery is pleased to partake in CONTEXT Art Miami's 10th edition *BOOTH B14* Featuring works by: Diana Copperwhite, Danny Rolph, John Alexander Parks, Zayasikhan Sambuu, Sínead Ní Mhaonaigh, and...Read more -
Diana Copperwhite: Reflections in a Darker Mirror
17 Nov 2022 - 21 Jan 2023January 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel is honored to present Diana Copperwhite’s, Reflections In A Darker Mirror, from November 17 to December 23, 2022.Read more -
First Annual Good on Paper Exhibit: Drawings and Paintings
18 Mar - 30 Apr 2022532 Gallery Good on Paper ExhibitionRead more -
Fall Breeze
6 Oct - 28 Nov 2020Chelsea, New York: 532 Gallery is pleased to present 'Fall Breeze'. Among a variation of themes and motifs, from abstract to figurative, this group exhibition presents a selection of distinct...Read more -
Summer Loving - Group Show
5 Aug - 19 Sep 2020Chelsea, New York: 532 Gallery is back open with our group exhibition “Summer Loving”, on view through September 19, 2020. The exhibition brings together a diverse array of evocative works...Read more -
Diana Copperwhite : The Clock Struck Between Time
30 Apr - 1 Jun 2019Chelsea, New York : 532 Gallery is very honored to present Diana Copperwhite’s, The Clock Struck between Time, from April 30 to June 1, 2019. The opening reception is on...Read more -
Art New York 2018
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Art Wynwood 2018
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Ten Years After
11 Jan - 16 Feb 2018Gustavo Acosta Gustavo Acosta was born in in Havana, Cuba in 1958, and is currently based in Miami. His intensely hued portrayals of sites in Havana, Miami, New York, and...Read more -
LAST PICTURE SHOW
11 May - 29 Jun 2017there is no harm in repeating a good thing -Plato An exhibition of work which posits the idea that creativity exists in not knowing, maybe the answer is “I can’t...Read more -
Depend on the Morning Sun
7 - 28 Jan 2017The exhibition effectively extends the continuum of abstractions in color that have engaged the artist in recent years. Fusing schematic shapes and fragments, her apparent abstractions recall a flash of...Read more -
Shadowland
13 Nov 2014 - 10 Jan 2015When describing Diana Copperwhite’s work Colm Toibin wrote: “Her work is about painting first and foremost; [these] references merely serve a purpose. Thus digital images which freeze and fragment an...Read more -
Loose Ends
10 Sep - 19 Oct 2013We are pleased to announce Diana Copperwhite’s first US solo show in collaboration with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. This follows on from her succesful solo presentation at VOLTA NY earlier...Read more
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SPRING/BREAK Art Show New York 2023
6 - 11 Sep 2023!WILD CARD! Exhibition 625 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 First Look | Wednesday, Sept 6th, 11AM - 5PM Opening Night | Wednesday, Sept 6th,...Read more -
2022 CONTEXT Art Miami
29 Nov - 4 Dec 2022532 GALLERY IS PLEASED TO PARTAKE IN CONTEXT ART MIAMI'S 10TH EDITION *BOOTH B14* Featuring works by: Diana Copperwhite, Danny Rolph, John Alexander Parks, Zayasikhan...Read more -
Art on Paper 2022
6 - 30 Sep 2022Art On Paper NY 2022 Pier 36 532 Gallery presents at Art on Paper works by Per Adolfsen, Carlos R. Cardenas, Diana Copperwhite, Susana Guerrero,...Read more -
Hamptons Fine Art Fair 2022
14 - 17 Jul 2022Featuring works by Diana Copperwhite, Susana Guerrero, Ian Hughes, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, John Alexander Parks, Danny Rolph, Elio Rodriguez, Alberto Alejandro Rodriguez, & Per Adolfsen....Read more -
2021 CONTEXT Art Miami
1 - 19 Dec 2021View Works on Artsy (link)Read more -
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary: Art Wynwood 2021
4 Feb - 14 Mar 2021Piers Secunda, Diana Copperwhite, Danny Rolph, Julie langsam, Ian Hughes, John Alexander Parks, Carlos Rodriguez Cardenas, Elio Roriguez, Gustavo Acosta, Jose Angel VincenchRead more -
2020 Pinta Miami LIVE
2 - 15 Dec 2020PINTA MIAMI – Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art Show, in its 14th edition continues to present projects with international curators showcasing Latin American art...Read more -
2020 CONTEXT Art Miami
1 - 20 Dec 2020Vew Works on Artsy (link) CONTEXT Art Miami fair is a proven destination and serious marketplace for top collectors to acquire important works from the...Read more -
Art Wynwood 2019
14 - 19 Feb 2019Diana Copperwhite, Carlos Rodriguez Cardenas, Danny Rolph, Gustavo AcostaRead more -
2018 CONTEXT Art Miami
4 - 9 Dec 2018Arghavan Khosravi, Lien Truong, Carlos R. Cardenas, Diana Copperwhite, Jose Vincench, Brian Cirmo, Danny Rolph, John Parks, Sky Kim, Cecilia Charlton Rime, Elio RodriguezRead more -
Art Wynwood 2018
15 - 18 Feb 2018View Works on Artsy (link)Read more -
2017 CONTEXT Art Miami
5 - 10 Dec 2017Booth C117 Exhbiting Artists: Gustavo Acosta, Bernard Ammerer, Diana Copperwhite, Susana Guerrero, Ian Hughes, Nadja Verena Marcin, Julie Langsam, John Parks, Armando Marino, Elio Rodriguez,...Read more -
CONTEXT Art Miami 2016
29 Nov - 4 Dec 2016Diana Copperwhite, Julie Langsam, Armando Marino, Rachel Valdes, susana Guerrero, Jose angel vincench, Tanja Selzer, John A Parks, Elio Rodriguez, Ian HughesRead more -
CONTEXT Art Miami 2015
1 - 5 Dec 2015Piers Secunda, Danny Rolph, Diana Copperwhite, Julie Langsam, Ian Hughes, Elio Rodriguez, Jose Angel VincenchRead more
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The Hudson Review - Arts Review - At the Galleries
Karen Wilkin, November 2, 2023 -
Museum of Non-visible Art: Diana Copperwhite Interview by Brainard Carey
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Art Pervading Life | Cecilia Danell and Diana Copperwhite
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VAN’s 2022 March / April Issue, artist interview: Art Pervading Life – Diana Copperwhite
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The Brooklyn Rail, Diana Copperwhite
Robert Shane, The Brooklyn Rail, August 7, 2019 -
Diana Copperwhite: Signal to Noise
Stephen Maine, Hyperallergic, January 7, 2017