Diana McClure

Diana McClure is a photo-based artist and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is inspired by expressionism, nature, collective well-being, and the liberation of thought. Diana’s writing has been featured in Art Basel, Photograph, Cultured, Afropunk, Art in America, Art21, Pratt Institute’s Prattfolio, the School of Visual Arts Journal, exhibition catalogs and artist monographs. Her photographs have appeared in a variety of venues, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Edge Zones Miami, Judy Chicago’s Envisioning the Future project, and the collections of The David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. She is also a founding co-editor of Lazuli Literary Group and AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought, generators of the word/genre “otherworld realism”. Diana received a B.A. in History from Columbia University and a M.A. in Sociology from The New School for Social Research where she was a recipient of the Diamond Fellowship. She has also received grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the Abhaya Yoga Foundation. In 2016 she joined the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts as a part-time faculty member.