Carol Diehl is a painter who seeks to find balance between order and chaos by marrying the literal with the abstract, working mainly with pencil and ink on paper. One-person exhibitions include the Berkshire Museum, Richard Sena Gallery, Gary Snyder Fine Art, and Hirschl & Adler Modern. Her paintings have also been shown in group exhibitions, and reviews of her work have appeared in Art in America, ARTnews, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Chicago Tribune, and The Chicago Daily News. Diehl is the recipient of artists’ Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, MacDowell, and the Millay Colony.
Also known as an art critic and poet, Diehl is a contributing editor for Art in America, and her writing has appeared in several other art publications. In 2011 she received a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation grant for her blog, Art Vent. Her poetry is included in the anthology Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, which won the 1994 National Book Award. She has contributed essays to several books including Spatial Experiments (2014), Along a Long Line (2009), and A Place for the Arts: MacDowell, 1907–2007 (2007).
Diehl taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1996–2006 and served on the core faculty at Bennington College from 1998–2002. She has been a visiting artist and lectured at, among others, Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia College, and the Vermont Studio Center. Diehl currently lives and works in New York City and southwestern Massachusetts.
