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Education
2005 MFA in Printmaking
School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
2004 MA in Printmaking
School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
2001 BFA, Graduated with Distinction
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Double Major: Mathematics and Studio Art
1999 Spring Semester Study Abroad Program in Florence, Italy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Selected Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
2007
Artist-in-Residence, Anchor Graphics, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
During three weeks, the site (an installation) and subsequent documents (a suite of six monoprints) of this residency was an inevitably temporary space, a ship between ports, a gambling vessel created at Anchor Graphics with the assistance of interns.
Iowa Arts Council Mini Grant
Iowa and the Pearl River Delta: the miniscule correspondences between
Funding to examine Iowa’s riverboat and land-bound gambling venues in conjunction with the rapid development of the Pearl River Delta, specifically Hong Kong and Macao
2004
Stanley Fellowship for Graduate Student Research Abroad, University of Iowa
Funding for two months of research throughout Mexico, examining the literary work of Juan Rulfo, writing, and collecting societal ephemera for artwork
Student Government Research Grant, University of Iowa
Support for travel in Mexico to observe the literary and physical landscapes of Juan Rulfo’s writing
2002
Wilhelm and Jane Bodine Fellowship, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
2001
Minnesota National Print Biennial Purchase Award
2000
Academic Scholarship, Department of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1999
National Science Foundation: VIGRE Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Solo Shows
2008
Four More: Broadsides for the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program
English and Philosophy Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (scheduled)
2007
Tented Cuts or a Brief Relation of Anticipated Glints and Group Posturing
Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
2006
Nine Essays: Broadsides for the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program
English and Philosophy Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Recent Work by Lydia Diemer, Red Rocket Gallery, www.redrocketgallery.com
2005
the two-armed bandit trap and noiseless escapes (all from the land of wandering),
Patient and Visitor Activities Center Gallery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
Dictating Tables and Badness: Pedro’s Backyard and/or The Unfinished Stairwell,
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2004
she was an attractively hipped kiddle and the cowboys start with hammer hit head ferocity in the land of leaf palaces, fur-chapped bees, and bibs to wear slightly (stand-ins and piñatas)
Undecided Space, Iowa City, IA
Tramp: The Mutations of a Little Girl, the Bear and the Bear, and the Wanderings of a Robust Fool
IMU Gallery Space, Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2001
BFA Thesis Show, Red Gym Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Group Shows
2008
Habitual Ritual, Fine Arts Center Gallery (scheduled)
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Faculty Art 2008, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell. IA (scheduled)
Postcard in COMA 16: Roam (If You Want To)
California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
The Moving Crew: Transfer-mation
Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2007
Habitual Ritual, Visual Arts Gallery
Governors State University, University Park, IL
Habitual Ritual, Richmond Center for the Visual Arts
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Contributing Artist to the Bemis Underground Fundraiser
Bemis Underground, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
The Moving Crew: Land Grant Flag State Construct
Bemis Underground, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
This Mango Is Now an iPod, Project Room Two
The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Transformation: Artist/Scientist Collaborations
Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
2006
Iowa Artists 2006: There’s No Place Like Home
Installation at the Des Moines Art Center Downtown, Des Moines, IA
Three Rooms: New Installations by Kim Ambriz, Lydia Diemer, and Neva Sills
Danny’s, Chicago, IL
Passport Home, The Moving Crew
Arts Iowa City, Lower Level, Old Savings and Loan Building, Iowa City, IA
Print Language As Content II, Exchange Portfolio
Southern Graphics Council Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Transformation, Exchange Portfolio
Southern Graphics Council Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Deer and Dogs: Dioramas by Kim Ambriz and Lydia Diemer
Rainbo, Chicago, IL
Print Language As Content, Exchange Portfolio
Gallery II, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2005
The Land of Wandering, Exquisite History Volume One
The Off Grounds Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
The Optical Lounge and Audio Lab, Create:Fixate
Spring St. Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
Pretty and Smells Good, Exchange Portfolio
Art Tank Gallery, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA
2005 MFA Exhibition
Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
International Collage Research and Production Team
Arts Iowa City, Jefferson Building, Iowa City, IA
Drawing/Painting/Collage by Cece Cole, Josh Doster, Lydia Diemer, Neva Sills, Lael Sale Workshop Space, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Pretty and Smells Good, Exchange Portfolio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2004
A Curious Assortment of Cradlesongs and Calamities,
Eve Drewelowe Gallery, University of Iowa City, IA
Children of the Corn, Exchange Portfolio
Mid-America Print Council Conference, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Print Language As Content, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
The 13th, Red Rocket Gallery, Chicago, IL
A Little Bird Told Me, Arts Iowa City, Jefferson Building, Iowa City, IA
The 4th Minnesota National Print Biennial,
Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2003
The Exquisite Corpse Show, Undecided Space, Iowa City, IA
Collaborations: UI/UTK Graduate Printmaking Students,
Eve Drewelowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2002
Print Preview, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Work from Printmaking Graduate Students,
E109 Space, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2001
Minnesota National Print Biennial
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Projects
2008
Four More, as a continuation of a previous commission (Nine Essays), this project includes four lithographic broadsides and one installation of dates and quotations pertinent to the history of the essay. It was created for the Nonfiction Writing Program offices as a semi-permanent exhibition in the English and Philosophy Building at the University of Iowa.
2007
Travel to Hong Kong and Macao
Further research on the aesthetic environments of casinos, isolated economies and islands tied to the riverboat culture of the Mississippi and rural casinos of Iowa. Of particular interest is an incomplete utopian project proposed by Arata Isozaki, Mirage City, and the reclamation of land in the Pearl River Delta.
2006
Nine Essays, eight lithographic broadsides and one installation, was created for the Nonfiction Writing Program offices as a semi-permanent exhibition in the English and Philosophy Building at the University of Iowa. Each essay presents a particular, often unorthodox, approach to the genre resulting in a varied visual approach. The work was commissioned by and closely planned with Assistant Professor John D’Agata. Photoshop and Illustrator were used to construct/form the images and text, photo-litho and polyester plates were the primary matrices.
Shorthand and responsive illustrations for Effects of Tachygraphy, by Riley Hanick and Lydia Diemer, examining Wittgenstein’s private language argument
Untitled, illustrations for “Picturesque” by Emily Wilson and “Poem” by Mark Levine, a broadside from Spout Graphic Press, Iowa City, IA
2005
Working with a group of artists and poets connected to the University of Virginia’s printmaking programs (The Printmakers Left), The Land of Wandering, Exquisite History, Volume I was a collaborative publication designed by the artists, containing their artwork and published by the University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, VA. The volume was published to coincide with an accompanying exhibition at the McIntire Department of Art’s Off Grounds Gallery in Charlottesville.
Traveled for two months throughout Mexico as a continuation of research compiled in Germany (writing, photographing and collecting societal ephemera for artwork, tracking comparisons and instances of simultaneity as well as examining the literary work of Juan Rulfo)
2004
Add Pinhole Tunnels and Deleted Rivets: the spring nearest the balance would otherwise be wound up are illustrations used in “Machine Made, An Anthology of Verse Created (In Full) by Anonymous Automatons”, a publication of Rhyming Orange Press, Iowa City, IA
2003
Independently funded creative research in Berlin, Germany for the accumulation of experiential information, scraps, and photographs for an installation at the Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa
Curatorial Projects
2007
Curator for the Bemis Underground June 15th through July 15th, 2007
The Moving Crew concocted a territorial environment, with required passports, and roving bands of street level artists, installations in tow. As part of the curatorial agreement, fundraising, PR, event planning, presentations to the community, and assistance with other 2007 Bemis Underground exhibits was required.
2006-2007
Curator of events and exhibits for Arts Iowa City,
Lower Level Old Savings and Loan Building, Iowa City, IA
Exhibitions include:
Intermedia Artists In Community, collaborations with nonprofit organizations
Scattering of Nations: Selections from The Land of Wandering, installation
New Work by Ryan Garbes and Andy Spore, video, performance and installation
Incidental Theatre and Escape Capes, work by Daniel Maw and Whitney Ringen
Common Ground, installation and interactions by Cody Gieselman and Jessica White
Founding member of the collaborative group: The Moving Crew
2005
The International Collage Research and Production Team
Created a two-month residency, coordinating eight artists and interactive public events
Arts Iowa City, Jefferson Building, Iowa City, IA
http://icrapt.blogspot.com
2003
The Busy Beaver Coloring Book is a collection of images created by graduate students at the University of Iowa, printed and constructed by Lydia Diemer, Nichole Maury, and Matthew Hopson-Walker. The profits from sales were used as a donation to the Graduate Art Congress at the University of Iowa for new initiatives.
Presentations
2007
Visiting Artist Lecture for Tented Cuts or a Brief Relation of Anticipated Glints and Group Posturing, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
Artist-in-Residence Lecture
Anchor Graphics, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2006
Iowa Artists 2006: There’s No Place Like Home, Artist’s Talk
Des Moines Art Center
Visiting Artist at the University of Iowa, School of Art and Art History,
Artists in Community-Intermedia Course, Iowa City, IA
2005
Visiting Artist at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Presented information regarding graduate school experiences
Group critiques
2004
Mid-America Print Council Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska
Panel Participant: “Print Language As Content”
Collections
Amity Art Foundation, Woodridge, CT
Archives of the Southern Graphics Council, University of Mississippi-Oxford
Boston University, Boston, MA
Print Archives, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Printmaking Area Archives, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Collection, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Exchange Portfolios
2006
Habitual Ritual, Nichole Maury and Kim Ambriz
Transformation, Heather Page
2005
Print Language As Content II, Associate Professor Robert Glasgow
Pretty and Smells Good, Lenore Thomas and John Hitchcock
2004
The 3rd Coralville Express Print Exchange, Matthew Hopson-Walker
The Exquisite Corpse Exchange, Lydia Diemer and Kim Ambriz
Print Language As Content, Associate Professor Robert Glasgow
2003
Southern Graphics Council Conference Exchange Portfolio-Boston
University of Tennessee-Knoxville/University of Iowa Collaborations Exchange, Christopher Lahti and Jessica Meyers
2001
Southern Graphics Council Conference Exchange Portfolio-Austin
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