Diana Al-Hadid is an artist who creates sculptures, installations, and drawings using various media. She was born in Aleppo, Syria and immigrated to Ohio when she was five. In 2003, she received a BA in Art History and a BFA in sculpture from Kent State University in Ohio. In 2007, she received an MFA in sculpture fromVirginia Commonwealth University. She Also attended Skowhegan before setting up shop in her studio in East Williamsburg. Diana is represented in New York City by Marianne Boesky Gallery. Her work is included in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, amongst many others. Al-Hadid has had solo exhibitions at Marianne Boesky Gallery, the NYUAD Gallery in Abu Dhabi, OHWOW Gallery, the Columbus College of Art and Design, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Hammer Museum just to name a few. She’s received the The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and she’s a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and a a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture. Brian stopped by Diana’s studio in Brooklyn, where he used to have a studio in the same building for years to catch up and talk about art, music and life.