Dianna Settles’ practice examines what it is to exist as part of a collective, portraying how culture, politics, and ideologies intertwine in community. Forms are arranged symbolically in poetic compositions, placing portraits of friends into potent moments in time. Bathhouses, prisons, and gathering places are depicted in conversation, while blooming patterns, details, and colors are woven into the scenes. Settles draws from Western tradition, as well as from the art history of her father’s native Vietnam, mindfully synthesizing multiple lineages while recontextualizing marginalized bodies.
Dianna Settles was born in 1989 and grew up in Blue Ridge, GA. She lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky. Settles received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2014.
Settles’ recent exhibitions include Ribbon of Earth at Asia Now fair with Galerie Marguo, Paris, FR (2024, solo); Kiaf SEOUL fair with Galerie Marguo, Seoul, KR (2024, group); Casa Marguo Summer Presentation, Menorca, ES (2024, group); New artworks from the Consortium Museum Collection, Consortium Museum, Dijon, FR (2024, group); A Thousand Paths Bloom, Galerie Marguo, Paris, FR (2023, solo); Home Run, Casa Marguo Inaugural Exhibition, Menorca, ES (2023, group); A Life Worth Living Would Be A Life Worth Living, MARCH, New York, US (2022, solo); Olly Olly Oxen Free, Institute 193, Lexington, US (2021, solo); 99 Flowers, Versa Gallery, Chattanooga, US (2018, solo), Hi-Lo Press, Atlanta, US (2018, solo), HI LO, Runaway Studio, Pittsburgh, US (2018, solo). She has also exhibited with MINT Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the High Museum (Atlanta, GA), Delaplane (San Francisco, CA), and the San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA), among others.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Consortium Museum (Dijon, FR), X Museum (Shanghai, CN), Longlati Foundation (Shanghai, CN), Podo Museum (Jeju, KR) and the ICA Miami (Miami, US).
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Dianna SettlesAgain we're going to begin all of us against the great defeat of the world (blood from a stone), 2024Acrylic and colored pencil on panel61 x 40.6 cm (24 x 16 in)
Dianna SettlesRibbon of EarthBooth S1317 – 20 October 2024Monnaie de Paris, 11 Quai de Conti, 75006 ParisFor the 2024 edition of Asia Now at Monnaie de Paris, Galerie Marguo is thrilled to present Ribbon of Earth, a series of new paintings by Vietnamese-American artist Dianna Settles (b. 1989), created during her summer residency at Casa Marguo in Menorca. Inspired by the collections of the Museu de Menorca and the island's Talayotic ruins, these works further her exploration of autonomy and communion with nature, delving into Menorca's rich agricultural history dating back to 1600 BCE.VIP PREVIEW
