| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Eva Diener studied Biology and Art in Switzerland and worked as a teacher before she became a full time artist in 1963. Since then, she has lived in Melbourne, Australia, Edmonton, AB, and she currently shares her time between Zürich and Sechelt, BC. The visual work she has created, exhibited, and published since the 1960s does not represent her psychological states. Rather, her images comment on the overwhelmingly beautiful diversity of our earth and its degradation to become a plundered planet with an increasingly deprived, homeless and ultimately, suicidal humanity. Many of her pictures are untitled or they carry titles with just a hint of specific meaning. Thus, the interpretation of the image is up to the viewer.
Diener has exhibited consistently since 1971 in solo shows in both Switzerland and Canada. Her work has additionally been included in invited group and juried exhibitions such as 100 JAHRE FRAUEN·POWER 1916-2016 (Art Dock, Zürich, 2016), Contemporary Painting in Alberta (Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 1987), and Kunstszene Zürich, an annual experimental, modular event with exhibitions and public programs around the city (1972, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1987). Her work can be found in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa), Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Alberta Court House, Swiss Federal Collection, the Canton of Zürich, and the City of Zürich.
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