Isabel Diana

Isabel Diana 

Isabel Diana a Latine Printmaker. A 2022 graduate from Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University Masters in Print Media, She received the Print Media Thesis Writing Award upon graduation.  A 2020 graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design University located in Toronto, ON. She holds a BFA in  Printmaking and a minor in Art and Social Change. in 2020 she was awarded the Printmaking Award, the Sharon Merkur Memorial Award, the Nora E. Vaughan Award/PRINT medal of OCAD University and the Alfred T. Vivash Bursary for International Graduate Studies to pursue her studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art. 

Her art practice is based on the ideas of what it means to be a 21st-century woman. Her struggle and search for identity strongly influences her work. As an adopted Colombian raised as a Canadian immigrant with a Brazilian mother and a French Canadian father. Her upbringing was and still is a mixture of South and North American culture . 

Lived experience and current social issues are large ideas that influence most of her bodies of work — She works to merge the analog and digital worlds within print. Though her chosen print medium can vary the use of simple shapes, colors, photography, and text are the tools in building all her works. 

Throughout her studies she has worked to bring light to her lived experience, to showcase a beautiful narrative that is not yet normalized. Adoption, None -Visible Disabilities and Displacement are few of the many layers of her life that she speaks to within her work. She has continued this pursuit into her graduate studies while taking a closer look at the idea of connection and home. 

Currently located in Hamilton, ON