Born; Queens, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
1996 MFA The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1991 BA The University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2008 (Forthcoming) Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Less Than Day or Night, Project Room, PS1, Long Island City, NY
One Last Single Solitary Moment, Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2006 An Hour On The Sun, Small A Projects, Portland, OR
2005 Burning For You, PARTICIPANT, INC., New York, NY
2007 On Spec: Diana Puntar and Goran Tomcic, White Box, NY
2006 Carrie Moyer and Diana Puntar, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2001 John Bauer and Diana Puntar, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Woodie, Fritz Buehner and Diana Puntar, CRP, Brooklyn, NY
David Kasdorf and Diana Puntar, PS122, New York, NY
2007 Office Party, PARTICIPANT, INC. @ Rental, New York, NY
Fung Wah, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 The Raw and The Cooked, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Eccentric Space, Galeria Janet Kurnatowski , Brooklyn, NY
Native Spirit, Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Cold Cuts, Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Culture Vulture, Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY
Geo, Foxy Productions, New York, NY
2004 Inaugural Exhibit, Samson Gallery, Boston, MA
Irrational Exuberance, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Eccentric Spaces, N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
Artists in the Studio: 30 Years at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, NY
2003 Druid: Wood as Superconductor, Space 101, Brooklyn, NY
McColl Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
New Slang, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Glossing, 1R Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Proper Villains, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
1999 Close To You, Gallery @ Green Street, Boston, MA
The Big Little Drawing Show, N3, Brooklyn, NY
Transience and Sentimentality: From Boston and Beyond,
The ICA, Boston, MA
1997 Winter Catalog, CRP, Brooklyn, NY
New Product, CRP, Brooklyn, NY
Fictions, Guido Carbone Galleria, Torino, Italy
2005 NYFA Grant Recipient in Sculpture
2004 Art Omi
2003 McColl Center for the Arts
2002 Millay Colony
Yaddo
Change, Inc. Grant Recipient
2000 PS1, two person show
1996 Vermont Studio Center
1. Neugarten, Rachel “An Intriguing but cold “Sun”’ The Oregonian Nov. 3, 2006.
2. Motley, John “Diana Puntar” The Portland Mercury Nov. 2-8, 2006.
3. CS, “Carrie Moyer and Diana Puntar” Modern painters May 2006.
4. Pepe, Sheila, “Rubbery Rememberances” Gay City News, April 21-27, 2005.
5. Maine, Stephan, “Dateline Brooklyn” Artnet.com, April, 2005.
6. McCarthy, Joan, “The Gallery @ Green Street/ Jamaica Plain, Close to You” Art New England, Dec./Jan. 2000.
7. Sherman, Mary, “Familiarity breeds content in shows by friends, family” Boston Sunday Herald, 1999.
8. Gangiatano, Lia and Grunenberg, Christoph, "Transience and Sentimentality” Exhibition Catalog 1998.
9. Temin, Christine, "Boston Linked Art" The Boston Globe, February 27, 1998.
10. Mcquaid, Cate, "ICA shows Boston as artists' state of mind” The Boston Globe, February 21,1998.
11. Perrott, Jeff, "Marcella Beccaria and the Boston -Torino Connection," artsMEDIA summer 1996.
12. Beccaria, Marcella, "FICTIONS”, Exhibition Catalog 1996
13. Nigrosh, Leon, "Feminine Wiles: Women Ponder Post-Feminist Themes at Worcester State” The Worcester Pheonix, April 1, 1994.
