Collection: Diana Coandă

(Timişoara, Romania, 1974)

She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Timişoara and obtained her degree validation in 2009 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bilbao. She arrived in Spain in 2000, where she continues her career as a visual artist.

Diana's artistic career began in 1992 with solo and group exhibitions in Romania, the Moldavian Republic, and the former Yugoslavia, in various international galleries, salons, cultural centers, and museums of significant interest. Upon her arrival in Spain in 2001, she received the Salón de Otoño Prize from Caja Madrid; in 2011, she was selected for the CNAL (Luarca) and in 2018 for the Casimiro Baragaña National Painting Competition (Siero). Her exhibitions expanded across the country with various group exhibitions held in Burgos, Madrid, Granada, Gijón, Avilés, La Rioja, and internationally in Porto and Ireland.

In 2013, the DV Collective was founded, where he continues to work in a variety of disciplines, including artistic photography, experimental video, installation, site-specific work, and mixed media. Highlights within this career include exhibitions at Valey Cultural Center (Castrillón), LABoral Center for Art and Industrial Creation (Gijón), Proyecto SeAlquila (Madrid), the College of Architects of Asturias (Oviedo), Sala Borrón (Oviedo), the Jovellanos Birthplace Museum (Gijón), ArtBox Proyect (Málaga and New York), the Niemeyer Center (Avilés), MediaAdvance (Gijón), and awards and selection at CNAL (Luarca), among many others.