Jessica Diamond

{{short description|American conceptual artist|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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Jessica Diamond (born June 6, 1957) is an American conceptual artist who is known for her wall drawings and installations. She has explored themes of anti-commercialism{{cite book|title=Oxford Art Online|url=http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T097058?}} and social and sexual roles{{cite journal|last1=Verzotti|first1=Giorgio|title=Jessica Diamond|journal=Artforum International|date=1994|volume=32|issue=5|page=101}} in her artworks.

Diamond was born in New York, New York. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1979 and her MFA from Columbia University in 1981. She has exhibited her work globally since 1983.{{cite web |title=Jessica Diamond Biography |url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/jessica-diamond/biography |website=ArtNet |access-date=14 June 2021}} She did a series of wall drawings influenced by and responding to the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.

Her work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art,{{cite web |title=Jessica Diamond |url=https://whitney.org/artists/4744?q%5Bs%5D=sort_date%20desc |website=Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date=14 June 2021 |language=en}} the Hirshhorn Museum,{{Cite web |title=Artwork: Jessica Diamond |url=https://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm:hmsg_2019.013 |access-date=December 29, 2024 |website=Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden {{!}} Smithsonian |language=en-US}} and New York's Museum of Modern Art.{{cite web |title=Jessica Diamond |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/25977 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |access-date=14 June 2021 |language=en}}