Diane Appaix-Castro b.1993
Sculpture | Multimedia Experiential Installation | Extended Realities
diappaixcastro@gmail.com | @diappaix_art | www.dianeappaixcastro.com
Education:
2022, Master of Fine Arts, Tulane University
2019, Curatorial Certificate, Sotheby’s Institute
2019, TEFL/ESL Teaching Certification, The TEFL
2018, Furniture Design and Building, Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, Jamaica Plain, MA
2019, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Suffolk University, with Minors in Art History and Arts Administration - Studied Interior Architecture for two years
2012 – 2015, Studied Psychology and Business Administration with a minor in Fine Arts, Middlesex Community College
Grants/Awards/Residencies:
2025, Prepared Table Fellow - collaborative archival research program for New Orleans-based artists hosted by Amistad and Rivers Institute
2025, Get Ready Grant - Baton Rouge Arts Council
2024, Residency - Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2024, Emergency Grant - Foundation for Contemporary Arts (to produce new work)
2021, Residency - Southern Heat Exchange
2021, SLA Graduate Student Summer Research and Write-Up Fellowship
2020, First Place DIY Art - Reconnecting in Quarantine, Tulane Hillel
2015, Residency - Studio North Architecture, Norwich, Vermont
Solo/Duo Exhibitions
2026, The Dawn of Species Singularity Part II: And Organism of All Origins with Lera Niemackl, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2025, The Dawn of Species Singularity with Lera Niemackl, Crescent City Clayworks, New Orleans, LA
2025, Silent Spring, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2024, Abismo, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2023, Unum Ens, The Parlour Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2023, Camera Revelatorium, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2022, Turritopsis dohrnii, Carroll Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018, Resident Alien, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2018, …and time moved differently…, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2017, Bob, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Expositions collectives:
2025, To Make and Be Received, Southeastern University Contemporary Gallery, Hammond, LA
2025, Parts Unknown III, Staple Goods, New Orleans, LA
2025, Refreshing America, The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2024, Prospect 6 Local Lagniappe, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2023, Swell, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
2023, Front and Center, Plug Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2023, Labor/Gesture/Labor/Gesture, The Parlour Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2023, New Member Show, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2023, Open House, The Parlour Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2022, Phantasma, Art Conscious, New Orleans, LA
2022, Tongue and Groove, Good Children, New Orleans, LA
2022, Upon Further Consideration (because things are different), Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2022, Collective Flux, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2021, Sharp, Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
2020, Reconnecting in Quarantine, Tulane Hillel, New Orleans, LA, Online Exhibition
2018, Resident Alien, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA
2017, HUMAN, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Curated Exhibitions:
2025, Musings, by Luba Zygarewicz, Diboll Gallery, Celia Scott Weatherfield School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2025, Operation Dream: A Futurespective for New Orleans Another 20 Years Post Katrina, group exhibition, Diboll Gallery, Celia Scott Weatherfield School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2025, I Gotta Tell You Something About Me, group exhibition, Diboll Gallery, Celia Scott Weatherfield School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2025, In the Quiet Drift by Lily Brooks and Elliott Stokes, Diboll Gallery, Celia Scott Weatherfield School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2024, Echoes from the Hive by Carl Harrison Jr. and Kelsey Scult, Diboll Gallery, Celia Scott Weatherfield School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2024, Our House Swallows Moths by Joshua Mintz, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2024, Have You Heard of Reflectionism? by Patrick O’Connor, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2024, We Bear the Tide, We Brace the Ocean by Angela Tucker, Diboll Gallery, Celia Scott Weatherfield School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2023, To Catch a Devil-Backed Diamond by Jordan Hess, Studio Appaix, New Orleans, LA
2023, Feels Like 120°, Diboll Gallery, Celia Scott Weatherfield School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2023, Persephone by Ansley Givhan, Studio Appaix, New Orleans, LA
2023, Shriven by Jonathan Traviesa, Studio Appaix, New Orleans, LA
2022, Puerto Homogéneo by Yashira Davalos and Basqo Bim, Studio Appaix, New Orleans, LA
2020, Behind Closed Doors, Studio Appaix, New Orleans, LA
2020, Texture, Studio Appaix, New Orleans, LA
2019, Domesticated (Bringing the Gallery Home), Studio Appaix, New Orleans, LA