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Sari DIENES (b. 1989) was born in Debrecen, Hungary. During a career that spanned some six decades, she worked in a wide range of media, creating paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, textile designs, sets and costumes for theatre and dance, sound-art installations, mixed-media environments, music and performance art.
Prior to her arrival in New York City in 1939, she lived in Paris and London, where she studied with Fernand Léger, Amédée Ozenfant, André Lhote and Henry Moore. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since the early 1940s, with notable exhibitions at the storied Betty Parsons Gallery and later as a founding member of the Feminist collective, A.I.R. Gallery.
Her work has been included in major museum exhibitions, including The Menil Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, , the Brooklyn Museum, The Hammer Museum UCLA, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Drawing Center. Current Exhibitions at MoMA, the Menil Drawing Center, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum Tinguely, as well as a new book and film have brought renewed interest in her life and work.
Please also see: http://www.saridienes.org/