“Copperwhite’s work focuses on how the human psyche processes information, and looks at the mechanisms of how we formulate what is real. With her work, she is fully aware that such realities may only hold validity for an instant, and that we are constantly processing and changing what we logically hold as experience and memory. Layering fragmented sources that range from personal memory to science, from media and internet to personal memory, Copperwhite’s canvases become worlds in which the real is unreal and this unreality is in a constant state of reforming.”
-Noel Kelly, Director of Visual Artist Ireland, (2011)
Diana Copperwhite (b. 1969, Ireland) lives and works in Dublin and New York. Recent solo exhibitions include ONOMATOPOEIA, Flowers Gallery, London (2024), Sounding of Silhouettes, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2023), ONOMATOPOEIA, Galway International Arts Festival/Limerick City Gallery of Art/Limerick City Gallery of Art (2023), Reflections in a Darker Mirror, Thomas Jaeckel, New York (2022), Vanishing Apertures, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2021), Proto Fiction and the Sleep of Reason, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2019), The Clock Struck between time, Thomas Jaeckel, New York (2019), Crooked Orbit, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2017), Driven by Distraction, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2016), Depend on the Morning Sun, Thomas Jaeckal Gallery, New York (2016) and A Million and One Things Under the Sun, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Shelter, Curated by Ann Hodge, National Gallery of Ireland (2023), It Took a Century, Women Artists and the RHA, National Gallery of Ireland (2023), ANARENE, Curated by Danny Rolph, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York (2023), Who do we say we are, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, Indiana (2022), The Pleasure Ground, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin (2022), Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland, Curated by Sean Scully, Flowers Gallery, London (2022), Autumn Breeze, Thomas Jaeckel, New York (2020), Vision X, The RHA Gallery, Dublin (2019), Double Vision, w/Shirly Copperwhite, dlr Lexicon, Co. Dublin (2018), Last Picture Show w/Mary Heilmann, Chris Ofili, Danny Rolph, Vanessa Jackson, Elio Rodriguez, Jill Levine, Rebecca Smith, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York (2017) and Virtú, inc. Picasso, Giacometti, Henry Moore, Elizabeth Magill and Sean Scully at the Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland (2017). Copperwhite’s work is held in numerous public and private collections including: the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Office of Public Works, Contemporary Irish Art Society, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, Aland (Finland), Dublin Institute of Technology and The President of Ireland.