EDUCATION

1979-80   University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, Master of Arts in Art

1975-79   University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours

1974-75   Champlain Regional College, St. Lambert, Quebec

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008             A Group of Seven Awkward Moments,(upcoming- October 4, 2008)Art Mur,Montreal, QB

A Group of Seven Awkward Moments, Michael Gibson Gallery(upcoming-Opening September 5, 2008), London, ON

A Group of Seven Awkward Moments, Poor Michael's  Bookshop, Art and Café, Onanole, MB

2006   Canadiana Martydom Series. Skew Gallery, Calgary, AB.

2005   The Canadiana Martrydom Series. Galerie ArtMur, Montreal, Quebec

2004-05   The Doll Mouth Series. Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.; Rodman Hall, Brock
University, St. Catharines, Ont.; 7th Internationale Fototage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany;
Gallery Connexion, Frederiction, N.B.; Gallery 1C03, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Martyrs Murder. Definately Superior Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario; Justina Barnicke
Gallery, University of Toronto, Ontario

2003    Martyrs Murder. Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, Newfoundland

2002   Still-life: stilled lives. Lee, Ka-sing Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2000-2002   Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, its lesson and camouflage. Medicine Hat Museum & Art
Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario; The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta;
Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Art, Ottawa, Ontario;
Embassy of Canada, Tokyo, Japan; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan;
The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Manitoba

2001   Re/Monstrance. St. Norbert Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta

2000   Representation, Presentation, Unpresentable. The Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, B.C.

1999   Monstrance. St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Patient/Prisoner. Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1998-96   On the Skin of a Doll. The Small Gallery, Harvard University, Boston; Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1997   slytod. Gallery 1.1.1., Winnipeg, Manitoba

1994-96   a slow remembering. Rosizo, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, State
Museum and Exhibition Centre, Moscow, Russia; The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland;
Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario; The Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1991-93   TOUCHING: THE SELF. Vu, Centre D'Animation et de Diffusion de la Photographie, Quebec City, Quebec;
Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta; Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan; The Photographers' Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,Winnipeg
Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Toronto Photographers' Workshop, Toronto

1987   Still Life: Recent Work. Thomas Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

SELECTED TWO & THREE PERSON SHOWS

2008 Desire and Domination- Imagining the Psyche (with Davida Kidd- Upcoming Oct. 10 - Nov. 15, 2008), Nanimo Art Gallery, Nanimo, BC

2002-3 Foul Play (with Michael Boss). Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Galerie Sans Nom,
Moncton, New Brunswick; Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1996 On the Skin (with Michael Boss). Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1995-94 The Tearing of Angels (with Richard Purdy and Liliana Berezowsky). Expression, Saint-Hyacinthe,
Quebec, Musee Regional de la Cote-Nord, Sept-Iles, Quebec

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008   Graphic Visions, Art Gallery of Regina, (upcoming Oct. 15 - Nov. 22, 2008)Regina, SK

Hinterlands, McIntosh Gallery(upcoming-Opening September 18, 2008), London, ON            

Dark Side: Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, (upcoming Sept. 6 - Nov. 16, 2008) Foto Winterhur, Winterhur, SZ            

Appropos, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON

Subconscious City, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Paradise Lost & Found, Bordercrossings Leap Year Gala, Winnipeg, MB

2006 Illegal Art. Art and Cutlure Center of Hollywood, Florida

Hand in Hand. Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Faking Death. Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

2005 Folio Revisited. The Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta

2004 Latitudes. The Atget Gallery, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade
That Obscure Object of Desire. Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario

2003 Not So Cute & Cuddly: Dolls & Stuffed Toys in Contemporary Art. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, Kansas
Illegal Art. SFMOMA. San Fransisco, California

2002 Korper - SEXUALITÄT. Fotogalerie Wiens, Vienna, Austria
Illegal Art, Gallery 313, New York, N.Y.

2000 The Liminal Body. Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Curator's Choice. The Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1998 The Ugly Show. The Bracknell Gallery, Bracknell, England

1997 Here's Looking at Me Kid. Art Gallery of North York, Toronto, Ontario
Corps et empreinte. Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Quebec
Dolls Reclaimed. Ontario Crafts Council Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1993-96 Search, Image and Identity: Voicing our West. Finnish Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland;
Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta; The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; STRUTS Gallery,
Sackville, New Brunswick; Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario; Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia;
The Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba,

1995 The Female Imaginary. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

1993 Contemporary Canadian Art. Galerie Pallas, Prague, Czech Republic

1992 Beau, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Art, Ottawa, Ontario

1991 The Body in Question. Burden Gallery-Aperture Foundation, New York, N.Y.

ART FAIRS

2008 Photo LA, Skew Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2007 artLA, Skew Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
photo Miami, Skew Gallery, Miami, FL

2006 photo Miami, Skew Gallery, Miami, FL

SELECTED REVIEWS

2004 Garth Buchholz. "This dance show shouldn't be avoided", The Winnipeg Free Press, Feb. 22

2003 David Balzer. "Eye Candy", Eye Weekly, November 20
Chris Shull. "Not So Cute & Cuddly, a new exhibit at the Ulrich, showcases dolls and stuffed animals in contemporary art",
The Wichita Eagle, Oct. 26
Chris Gaither. "Art Attack", The Boston Globe, July 14
Matthew Hollett. "Martyr's Murder, Diana Thorneycroft", Arts Atlantic, Issue 75, Winter 2003
Chris Nelson. "An Exhibition borrows brazenly", The New York Times, January 11

2002 Randal King. "Foul Play artists hope you laugh", The Winnipeg Free Press, August 1
Valerie Fortney. "Glorious decay & disarray", Calgary Herald, Jan. 11

2001 Alan Kellogg. "Rabbit revisited and the artist's eye", The Edmonton Journal, Feb.10

2000 Martha Langford. "Fantastic Trauma", Afterimage, September/October
Robert Everett-Green. "Portrait of art as ticking bomb", The Globe and Mail, Feb. 17

1999 Robert Enright. "Pulling questions out of a rabbit",The Globe and Mail, Sept. 22
Sheila Robertson. "Neither nice nor ordinary",The Star Phoenix (Saskatoon), Oct. 2

DOCUMENTARIES

2004 ZIGZAG, CBC-TV, Aired November

2000 On the Arts, CBC -TV Newsworld, Ross Porter, Host (aired Feb. 11, 12, 13)

1997 Adrienne Clarkson Presents, 'Diana Thorneycroft: More Than Skin Deep', CBC-TV,
Terrance McCartney-Filgate, Producer (premiere October 15)

1996 Sunday Morning, CBC Radio, Karen Wells, Producer (aired November 10)
Heartland and Midday, CBC-TV, Richard Hunka , Producer (aired October 10 and October 29)

1995 Usual Suspects, BBC Radio Scotland, Peter Easton, Host; Della Matheson, Producer
(aired October 11)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2003 Cousineau-Levine, Penny. Faking Death. McGill-Queen's University Press.

Dunbar, Elizabeth. Not so Cute & Cuddly: Dolls & Stuffed Toys in Contemporary Art, (exhibition catalogue),
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, 2003.

Enright, Robert. "Rituals of Outrage". Border Crossings Issue No. 72, pp. 5-6.

2002 Carver, Antonio, ed. Blink. Phaidon Press.

2001 Walsh, Meeka, ed., The Body, its lesson and camouflage , Winnipeg: Bain and Cox.

1999 Investigating sensorial response (exhibition brochure). St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre.

1998 Keshavjee, Serena, ed. Slytod, School of Art Gallery 1.1.1 and The University of Manitoba Press.
Langford, Martha. "In the Playground of Allusion", Exposure, 1998, Volume 31 3/4
Townsend, Chris. Vile Bodies: The Crises of Looking, Munich: Prestel-Verlag,1998

1997 "Snare", Light Year, A Festival of Photography, Winnipeg: The Floating Gallery

1996 Lovatt, Tom. "On the Skin: Notes Towards a Definition", Critical Distance, Winnipeg: Ace Art,Vol. 1#19
"Memory Feeder: Subjects and Objects in the Art of Diana Thorneycroft". Border Crossings vol.15, no. 3 (Summer 1996), pp. 22-33.
Gustafson, Paula and Carol Williams. Search, Image and Identity: Voicing Our West (exhibition catalogue).
Meskimmon, Dr. Marsha. "The Monstrous and the Grotesque", Make, no. 72 (October-November 1996), pp. 6-11
The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self Portraiture in the Twentieth Century, London: Scarlet Press, 1996

1994 Allen, Jan. The Female Imaginary (exhibition catalogue). Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Gallery.
Boss, Michael. The Bloody Theatre: Giving Death Its Due and Angela PLohman, At a distance:Saskatoon: The Photographers Gallery.

1993 Lipsett, Katherine. "Place of Meaning", Blackflash, vol. 11, no. 4, (Winter 1993), pp. 4-8
Mark, Lisa and Buchanan, Hamish. The Pressing of Flesh, exhibition catalogue, Winnipeg: The Floating Gallery,1993

1991 Fulton, Keith Louise. Opening the Body to Questions, and Shirley Madill. Staging the Self (exhibition brochure).
Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Spring 1991

Brunner, Astrid. "Diana Thorneycroft: Touching: the Self". Blackflash vol. 9, no. 2 (Summer 1991), pp. 7-12.

1990 "Touching the Self: Diana Thorneycroft Pura: Recent Photographs". Border Crossings, vol. 9, no, 4 (Fall 1990), pp. 68-75
Madill, Shirley. "Aioria (Dancing with the Spirits in the Pale Moonlight)" , IN VERSIONS, vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall 1990)

1988 Tamplin, Illi-Maria. Winnipeg Works on Paper, exhibition catalogue, Peterborough: The Art Gallery of Peterborough

1983 New Art From Manitoba, exhibition catalogue,Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery