Diane Appaix-Castro
Sculpture | Multimedia Experiential Installation | Extended Realities
Education
2020 - 2022 Masters of Fine Arts | Tulane University
2019 Curatorial Certificate | Sotheby’s Institute
2019 TEFL/ESL Certification | The TEFL
2018 Furniture Design and Building | Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts | Jamaica Plain, MA
2015 - 2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts | Suffolk University
- Art History and Arts Administration Minor
- 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
2024 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2024 Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA | Feb 5 - May 10
2021 Southern Heat Exchange Online Residency
2021 SLA Graduate Student Summer Research and Write-Up Fellowship
2020 Reconnecting in Quarantine | First Place DIY Art
Solo/Duo Shows
2023 Unum Ens | Parlour Gallery | New Orleans, LA
2023 Camera Revelatorium | The Front | New Orleans, LA
2022 Turritopsis dohrnii | Carroll Gallery | New Orleans, LA
2018 …and time moved differently… | New England School of Art and Design | Boston, MA
2017 White Box Show | New England School of Art and Design | Boston, MA
Exhibition History
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 | 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 | Juried Exhibition | New England School of Art and Design | Boston, MA
Upcoming Exhibitions
2024, April Abismo | The Front | New Orleans, LA
2024, September Duo show with Lera Niemackl | The Front | New Orleans, LA
Publications
2023 The New Member Show at The Front, Burnaway Magazine
Curatorial History
2023 To Catch a Devil-Backed Diamond by Jordan Hess | Studio Appaix | New Orleans, LA
2023 Feels Like 120° | Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine | 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| 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