Diana Lui

Diana Lui (born May 7, 1968 in Malaysia) is a Franco-Belgian artist, photographer and filmmaker of Chinese origin. Diana Lui is best known for her large format photographic portraits of today's growing hybrid generation of multicultural and multiethnic individuals.[1]

Diana Lui was born in Malaysia and has been based in Paris for more than 10 years. She graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 1992.[2] A master with the 8×10 inch view camera, Diana Lui develops long term photographic and artistic projects over several years. Intimate Portraits, what Lui calls "intimate/psychological/anthropological portraits on today’s hybrid generation of new nomads who have lost their roots and origins due to the onslaught of globalism" was initiated 20 years ago and continues to develop to this day. Lui’s silent portraits show the existential urgency of each individual’s existence through the space or objects surrounding him/her, the intrinsic gestures and physical positioning of the individual within his/her environment. With this constantly evolving series, she has won several awards including France’s 20th Bourse du Talent (Young Talent Award for Photography)[3][4] and the Prix Kodak de la Critique Photographique (Kodak Critics’ Award),[5] Belgium’s Prix National de la Photographie Ouverte du Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi[6] and was in 2008 a finalist for the Prix de la Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie.[7]

Background

Diana Lui’s interest in different art forms is due to her early education in the arts in Malaysia ranging from Chinese ink painting to the performance arts such as ballet and contemporary dance. Her studies in the fine arts in UCLA (University California Los Angeles) were guided by teachers who were prominent artists of the 1960s Post-Modernist period such as Robert Heinecken and Jan Stüssy. In UCLA, Lui experimented with drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpting and photography. She further deepened her art studies at the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Her graduation project combined printing processes such as photogravure and platinum/palladium printing in order to create subtle black and white portraits taken with an 8x10 inch view camera. Lui was able to successfully master these alternative printing processes thanks to her teacher Anthony Zepeda, Los Angeles master printmaker, a former printer of Rauschenberg's.[8] Though photography has predominated her work, her recent projects have evolved into new themes that push the limits of photography by combining installation, performance, experimental short films, painting and drawing. Lui’s transient life between three different continents has developed in her a heightened sense of “rootlessness”, loss of origins and traditional values. This “rootlessness” has become the center from which her art and research has taken shape.[9]

Exhibitions

Diana Lui has won several prestigious awards and exhibited her photographs and art work in solo and group exhibits in the USA, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Belgium, Paris (France), Germany, Italy, Estonia, London, Morocco, Mexico, and Venezuela.

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References

  1. ↑ Bowne, Kristine. "Diana Lui: Soul to Soul", Outer Circle, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, Fall 2007.
  2. ↑ French Wikipedia
  3. ↑ Bourse du Talent
  4. ↑ Wikipédia La Bourse du Talent
  5. ↑ "Prix Kodak de la Critique Photographique 2003", 2003
  6. ↑ Musée de la Photo, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
  7. ↑ Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie 2008
  8. ↑ Bowne, Kristine. "Diana Lui: Soul to Soul", Outer Circle, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, Fall 2007.
  9. ↑ Official biography of Diana Lui , "http://www.99medusas.com/site.php?page=bio&index=1". retrieved August 11, 2013
  10. ↑ Medusas , "Fotopub"
  11. ↑ The Feminine Beyond
  12. ↑ Les Rencontres d'Arles
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