Diane is a Canadian-American artist who grew up in Detroit. She moved to New York in 1983 and has been living in NY and New Zealand since June, 2005. Each Summer she returns to Belle River, Ontario to be with her family.

Diane is an award-winning artist, writer and performer. She has performed her own one-person shows as well as acted in various off-off Broadway productions and independent films. As a visual artist Diane has collaborated with Jay Yager since 1983 creating original video art productions for which she performs and writes. Many of these productions have won awards in international festivals and are owned in various public and private collections.

Awards include: National Endowment for the Arts, Three New York Foundation for the Arts Artists' Fellowships, Michigan Foundation for the Arts, NY Downtown Magazine's Poet of the Year Award, and others.

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Photo credit: Guler Ugur

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