Diana Baker Smith is an Australian artist based on Gadigal land in Sydney. Her artistic practice is highly collaborative, research driven, and underpinned by feminist methods. Her recent projects engage with art historiography and its fictions, spanning moving image, performance, photography, installation, and text.
Recent works include She Speaks in Sculpture (UTS Art Gallery, Sydney, 2022), The Lost Hour (Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart, 2022), Tasks yet to be composed for the occasion (Artspace, Sydney, 2021), Backwards Turning (Channels International Biennial of Video Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2019).
Baker Smith is also a member of the art collective Barbara Cleveland (with Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore and Kelly Doley) whose recent projects have been presented at the Biennale of Sydney, the National Gallery Australia in Canberra, Hayward Gallery in London and Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan. Their works are held in the collections of Artbank, Museum of Contemporary Art, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Monash University Museum of Art, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, and the Art Gallery of NSW. Diana holds a PhD from the University of NSW, where she is Lecturer in Fine Arts in the School of Art and Design.
