Artist: Diana Farfan Valente | Location: Greenville, SC
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Artist: Diana Farfan Valente | Location: Greenville, SC
Greenville, SC
Greenville, SC-based and born in Bogotá, Colombia, Diana Farfán is a full-time studio artist. She received her BFA in Bogotá at the National University of Colombia in 1999, and her MFA in Ceramics at the University of South Carolina in 2010. Diana also studied at the University of Anchorage, AK, and at the Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan as an exchange student. Diana’s work has been shown and awarded on numerous occasions: 1st Place Award for 2015 Annual Juried Show Pickens Museum of Art; Best in Show at Workhouse Clay National 2014 in Lorton, VA, SC; Artisphere’s Emerging Artist Award 2013, Greenville, SC; Outstanding Thesis Award Winner 2010 at University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. The Dream Life of Broken Toys and The Toy Republic were sculpture installations exhibited as part of a residency at 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, S.C. Bread and Circus, her recent body of work, is now being exhibited in various venues in the Southeast of the country.