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12 Facts About Carol Diehl

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Carol Diehl is an American artist, art critic and poet.

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Carol Diehl has two sons, Matt Diehl and Adam Diehl.

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Carol Diehl returned to Chicago in the early 1970s and began painting among a group of artists, including Barbara Blades, Liz Langer, Sandra Perlow and Fern Shaffer, studying at the Evanston Art Center with artist Corey Postiglione.

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Carol Diehl had her first individual exhibition at Roy Boyd Gallery in 1980.

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In 1976, Carol Diehl moved to New York to work as assistant to John Coplans, then editor of Artforum magazine.

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Carol Diehl has shown her paintings in group exhibitions at, among others, the Queens Museum of Art, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and the Sidney Janis Gallery.

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Carol Diehl's work is widely held in corporate collections in New York and Chicago.

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Carol Diehl is the recipient of artists' fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, as well as residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony for the Arts, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.

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Carol Diehl was a Contributing Editor to Art in America, where she wrote cover articles on Olafur Eliasson, Robert Irwin, Wolfgang Laib and Christian Marclay, as well as numerous other features and reviews.

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Carol Diehl taught painting and writing in the Graduate Fine Art Program of the School of Visual Arts in New York and served on the Core Visual Arts faculty at Bennington College.

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Carol Diehl appeared with Butch Morris's "Chorus of Poets" at The Public Theater, the Whitney Museum and the Bang on a Can Festival at Lincoln Center.

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Carol Diehl's poetry is included in the anthology Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, winner of the 1994 American Book Award.