B.A.
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois 1962-66
Drawing
Studio Simi, Florence,
Italy 1968
Printmaking & Sculpture
Worcester Art
Museum School, Worcester, MA 1968-70
Etching & Engraving
S.W. Hayter, Atelier
17, Paris, France 1972-73
Monotype
Nathan Oliveira,
Independent Study, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 1976-77
Traditional Japanese
Arts
Oomoto School,
Kameoka and Tokyo, Japan 1980-81
Contemporary Dance
Graduate & Independent
Study with Kei Takei, American Dance Festival, USA & Japan,
Hong Kong, Maine, New York 1982-84
Solo Exhibitions
1998
Mudluscious,Canto
XIII, Paper Installations, Sight Insight, Mill Valley,
CA postcard
1996
Canto X, Paper Works,
Sight Insight, Milly Valley, CA
Molten Wings, Los
Gatos Council Chambers, Los Gatos, CA
1995
Molten Wings, Mill
Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley, CA
1994
Canto IX, Paper
Works, Sight Insight, Mill Valley, CA
1992
Canto VIII, Paper
Works, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
1991
Canto VII, Paper
Works, Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984
Summer Waves,
Memory of the Winters', Tokyo American
Center, Introduction to Japanese leaders
1983
Red Radiance, The
American Library, Hong Kong
1982
Be The Bird
That Soars In Your Dreams, Gallery Beni, Kyoto, Japan
1976
Iconic Wings, Palo
Alto Cultural Center-Civic Cente, Palo Alto, CA
1974
Solo Exhibtion, Montalvo
Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2007
Prophecy: Healing Time, William
Torphy, Curator, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Opposites, 255 California
Street, San Francisco, CA
2006
As Above So
Below, Gallery Route One, Pt.
Reyes, CA
Big Sur, A Place
Apart, Juried show, pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific
Grove, CA
The Sea,
Slobodan Dan Paich, Curator, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco,
CA
2005
Sea Change,
Bay Model Visitors Center, Sausalito, CA.
Blue Planet
Blues, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
Ultra Marine,
Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes, CA
2004
What Remains?,
Addison Street Windows Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2002
Day of the Dead
/ Entre La Luz Y La Muerte, Whale Guardian Installation,
SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2001
Art Safari One,
Paper Installations, Alice Art Center, Oakland, CA
Out of the Ashes,
Cast Paper Installation, Sight Insight, Mill Valley, CA
"Day of
the Dead / Ciudad de Los Milagros (City of Miracles),"
Paper Shrine Installation
(collaborative work), SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
CA
2000
Small Sculpture
Competition, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1998
SightInsight
Artists, Bay Model, Sausalito, CA
1991
Paper Clothes
1966–1991, Fashion Institute of Technology,
New York, NY
1990
Breaking the
Line, Monotypes, Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
Canto II,
Passage In Light (Video) Art and the Environmental Crisis,
Gallery Route One,
Pt. Reyes Station, CA
1989
Golden Boat,
Installation, The Pine Forest, Nantucket Island, MA
Goddess Helmets,
Communications, Nantucket Island, MA
1988
Kala Group Show,
Modesto Lanzone's Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
Works on Paper,
Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987
Impressions,
Kala Institute Artists, Art Store, San Francisco, CA
1986
Kala Exchange
Trace, Paris, France
1985
5 Modern Artists,
The American Library, Hong Kong
1983
Language of
the Existing Arts, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
1981
Paper Art,
The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Paper, Painted,
Printed, Plyed, Kala Institute Gallery, Berkeley,
CA
1977
Stepping Into
Pure Space, The Artery, San Francisco, CA
1976
5th Annual Bay
Area Regional Graphics Competition, Helen Euphrat
Gallery, Cupertino, CA
1975
Worcester Area
Artists Exhibition, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester,
MA
Performances
"Whalesongs," A Performance and Paper Art Workshop for Whale Lovers, Emeryville, CA, November 6, 2008
"Dance As Its Made-CROW," with Vangie King, Artery, Emeryville, CA, October 19, 2008
Whale Songs Ceremony, with Suellen Primost and Jean Shinoda Bolen, for the Gather the Women Forum,
Petaluma, CA., October 18, 2008
“Canto
XIX”(excerpt), Grace Cathedral Courtyard,
San Francisco, CA, Earth Day, April 22, 2007
“Honoring
the Whales, Canto XVIII,” in conjunction with
the California Current Project, Bay Model Visitors
Center, Sausalito, CA, United Nations World Environment Day
Sponsored event, June 4, 2005
"Praises
For The World,” Performer, Presented by Jennifer
Berezan, the California Institute for Integral Studies,
Scottish Rite Theater, March 22, 2003
"Essence
of the Whale,” Canto XVII, Henry Miller Library,
Big Sur, CA, September 28th. 2002
“Out of
the Ashes,” Canto XV, Ann O’Hanlon’s
burnt house, Sight & Insight, Mill Valley, CA,
May 1, 2001
"Bone and
Ash,” Canto XVI, Alice Art Center, Oakland,
CA, March 31, 2001.
Sight Insight, Mill Valley, CA, May 1, 2001
"District
Six,” Canto XIV, Capetown, South Africa, under
the auspices of The Parliament for the World's Religions,
December 7, 1999
“Flying
the Goddesses Colors,” (Tanriçanin Renklerini
Ucurmak) Canto XII, Athena’s Temple & Assos
Village,
Commissioned by the Assos Festival,Turkey, September 26, 27,
28, 1997; partially funded by United States
Information Service
“The
Majesty of Aliveness,”
Canto VIII, Santa Cruz
Art League, Santa Cruz, CA, April 14, 1993
Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA, Sept 25–26, Oct 9–10,
1992
“Dance
of the Golden Thread–What Links Us?" Canto VII,
Fifth Emeryville Annual, Emeryville, CA, October 4, 1991 (for
the visiting Russian artists)
International Center for Celebration Events, Marilyn
Wood, Director, Carol La Roche Gallery, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, May l991
Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February 14–16,
1991
Hammett Pond, Nantucket Island, MA, August 22, 1989
"The Magnificat" Canto
VI, Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May
24–25, 1990, 8th Street Studio,
Berkeley, November 26, 1988 postcard
"Artist
Assassin,” Pro Arts roof, Oakland, CA, June
11, 1988
"Sentite!
Cantare Un Cigno (Listen! A Swan Sings)" Canto V,
The Lab, San Francisco, CA, December 5–6, 1986
"In This
Sense Death is to the Living" Canto IV, 8th Street
Studio, Berkeley, CA, November 3, 1985
"Life Line,”
Tokyo, Japan, September 21, 1984 (by invitation)
"Winter
into Spring” Canto III, Hong Kong Art Centre
Studio Theatre, Hong Kong, March 19–21, 1984 (commission)
"Passage
in Light" Canto II, Hong Kong Festival Fringe,
cluster of rocks South China Sea, 10 hours,
February 19, 1984
"Be The
Bird That Soars In Your Dreams,” on-going site
specific event with a long roll of paper:
Angel's Gate, CA, September 1 & 3, 1990, curated by the
Los Angeles Art Festival
Point Reyes, CA, "Artists and the Environmental Crisis,"
Gallery Route One, June 24, 1990
Earth's Alive! Festival, Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park,
San Francisco, CA, April 28, 1990
Arroyo de la Cruz, CA, July 14–15, 1986 (private commission)
City Centre Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong Festival Fringe, February
25, 1983
Lamma Island Mountainside, Hong Kong Festival Fringe, February
5, 1983
Kamo River; Kyoto, Japan, November 20, 1982 (sponsored by Gallery
Beni)
Battery Park landfill, New York, NY, August 1982
Duxbury Beach, MA, July 25, 1982
"Ladder
From The Dream,” American Dance Festival Graduate
Choreography, Durham, NC, July, 1982
"Red Radiance,”
Big Wave Bay, Hong Kong, April 11, 1982
"Celebration!" performer,
The Landmark, Hong Kong Art Festival, Marilyn
Wood, Director, Hong Kong,
February, 1982
"The Rose
and the Dragonfly,” City Center Plaza, Oakland,
CA, August, 1979
(sponsored by the Center for the Visual Arts)
Honors
Master Teacher Artist in Residence, Bay
Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA, 2006
"Art Safari
One" selected by Wendy Blakeley for a 6 week
artists' tour to Zimbabwean parks and conservation
areas, July-August, 2000.
“Japan's
Young Choreographers,” selected by Kei Takei
for the American Dance Festival, Tokyo, Japan, 1984
“Carp
Swimming Up Stream,” repeat performance for
the Crown Princess of Japan, September, 1984
Commissions
“Mother
Goddess Dance” Canto XI, Commissioned by Anakultur
Cooperative, Çatal Höyück, Turkey,
June 14, 1997, June 27, 1998
“Flying
the Goddesses Colors” Canto XII, Commissioned
by the Assos Festival, Turkey,
September 26, 27, 28, 1997; partially funded by the United
States Information Service
“What
Links Us?” Prayer Blanket, installation for
the Global Green USA’s Third Annual Forum
(Mikhail Gorbachev, Keynote Speaker) in the Presidio, San Francisco,
CA, October, 1996
Designed and coordinated “The
Earth Prayer Blanket” in an Oakland Public School,
funded by the California Arts Council through the Renaissance
of Papermaking, Fall, 1995.
Designed and coordinated “The
Earth Prayer Blanket" handmade paper prayers
from 10 Bay Area schools, for Earth Day 1995, Presidio, San
Francisco, CA, April 22, 1995.
Commissioned by Foghorn Press.
Artworks, Earth’s Alive! Festival,
Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, April
28, 1990
Painted costumes & Performer, Ellen
Webb Dance Co., Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkeley, CA 1988,
Oakland Museum Garden, Oakland, CA,1989
Set design and painted costumes for “Light,
Part 23 - Pilgrimage” Kei Takei’s Moving
Earth,
Israel Festival, Jerusalem; New York, NY; Washington, DC, Atlanta,
GA; Arizona, 1987
“Carp
Swimming Upstream,” solo performance art event
for Blue and White, Tokyo, Japan, 1984
“Ladder
from the Dream,” 50 foot cast pulp ladder for
the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 1982
Collections
Armstrong Barstow & Potter, San Jose,
CA
Barclay’s Bank, Boston, MA
Henry Chan, Hong Kong
Eco-Art Library, Prague
Publications
“Whale
Advocates Rally at New Exhibition,” review by
Con Garretson, Marin Independent
Journal,
Sunday, June 5, 2005
“She is
Everywhere,” Anthology of Womens’ Writing,
essay “Essence of the Whale,” published by I
Horizon, 2005
“A Whale
of a Performance,” Hot Picks, The Weekly Calendar, Monterey
West Coast Weekly,
September 26-October 2, 2002
“Celebrating
the Dead,” review and color photograph by Robert
Taylor, Contra Costa Times,
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
“SOMARTS,
City of Miracles,” review by Sarah Lidgus, Art
Calendar, San Francisco
Bay Guardian,
October 11, 2001
“Diana
Marto Plays the Odaiko Drum,” photograph by
Jeff Vendsel, Marin Independent
Journal,
Sunday, May 13, 2001
“In The
Footsteps of The Goddess,” by Cristina Biaggi,
published by Knowledge,
Ideas & Trends, Inc., 2000
“The Golden
Goddess,” Sculpture (collaborative work) image
reproduced in Burning Man
Promotional Materials, 1999 & 2000
“Mother
Goddess Dance,” by Diana Marto, Goddessing,
Issue 10, 1999.
“The Walk
of the Dance,” Interview and color photographs
by Selcen Taninmis, Hurriyet
Newspaper,
June 14, 1997
“Ana Tanriçanin
Dansi” (Mother Goddess Dance), Interview and
color photograhs by Nevval Sevindi, Yeniyuzyil Newspaper,
June 18, 1997 article
Canto XII,
Live television coverage and in-studio interview for Four Seasons
Women, onTRT-2/TRT-INT,
June 18, 1997
“Women
In Search of Their Mythology,” Color photographs,
article by Güner Özkiziltan, Marie
Claire Magazine,
July, 1997
“Tanriçalarin
Izinde” (In The Footsteps of The Goddess), full
page color photograph and article
by Simyacilara Özel, Biba, August, 1997 article
“Death
Valley Comes To Council Chambers,” Shari Kaplan, Los
Gatos Weekly Times, July 17, 1996
“Habitat
Wisdom on the Trail of the Goddesses,” by Nihai
Mete, Sabaln Newspaper,
June 8, 1996
“Alan
Farley with Diana Marto,” KALW, Interview Feb
13, 1991, Sept. 23, 1992
“Dance
of the Golden Thread — What Links Us?” Malka
Weitman, VOX Magazine,
Winter, 1991
“… and
paper is my semaphore …” The Elmwood Newsletter,
Winter Equinox, 1991
“What
Have We Got to Lose? Artists and the Environmental Crisis,”
published by Gallery Route One,
Pt. Reyes, CA, 1991
“From
Russia With Art,” Laura Hagar, East
Bay Express, Oct 11, 1991
“Diana
Marto rehearsing with a flowing roll of paper for the Los
Angeles Art Festival,” John Corcoran on
News Alive, TV Channel 9, Aug 31. 1990
“Kei Takei’s
Searching Light,” Pamela Sommers, Washington
Post, October 2, 1987
“Paper
Clothing East and West,” Janet Koplos, FiberArts
Magazine, Mar/Apr, 1984
“Women
in the Arts,” Ian Findlay, TV & Entertainment
Times, Hong Kong, March 14–20, 1984 article
“Interview
With Diana E. Marto” with color photographs,
Ross Lai, Sing Tao Wan Pao, Sunday Supplement,
Apr 1, 1984 article
“An Early
Bird Caught,” front page photograph & coverage,
Andy Browne, South China
Morning Post,
Sun, Feb 6, 1983 article
“DIANA
E. MARTO, BE THE BIRD THAT SOARS IN YOUR DREAMS” Photography
by Eugene E. Phillips,
Imaginary Press, 1982.
“Be the
Bird That Soars In Your Dreams,” Kyoto Shimbun,
Nov.22, 1982
“Paper/Art,”
Catalogue, Crocker Art Museum, January 17–March 1, 1981
“Paper/Art
at the Crocker,” Victoria Dalkey, The
Sacramento Bee, Jan 28, 1981
“Fine
Prints Featured in Fresh New Art Space,” Charles
Shere, The
Oakland Tribune, Tues, Feb 3, 1981
“Artists
Exhibit in Their Studio,” Salli Wiley Robertson, Artweek,
Nov, 1977
“Exhibit
Features Women Artists,”Palo
Alto Times, March 26, 1976
“Florence
Ordeal by Water,” by Katherine Cressman Taylor,
published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1967
Gallery
Affiliations
Big Sur Artists Gallery, Carmel Highlands,
CA
Ventana Gallery, Big Sur, CA
Professional
Affiliations
Board of Directors, Centro Culturaale Vei
Aztlan, 2007-
International Board of Advisors, International
Center for Celebration, 1989–2000
Artist-Advisor HERINN–Formation Center & Anakultur
Cooperative, Turkey, 1997–2001
