Diana Al-Hadid was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1981 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has been the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Grant, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, and a Pollock-Krasner Grant. In 2020, she received The Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award.

Diana Al-Hadid is known for her practice that examines the historical frameworks and perspectives that continue to shape discourse on culture and materials today. With a practice spanning sculpture, wall reliefs, and works on paper, Al-Hadid weaves together enigmatic narratives that draw inspiration from both ancient and modern civilizations. Al-Hadid's large-scale sculptures layer these figurative, landscape, and architectural elements to decontextualize the historical circumstances they reference.

The artist's rich allegorical constructions are born from art historical religious imagery, ancient manuscripts, female archetypes, and folkloric storytelling frameworks. Framed by a host of references from antiquity, cosmology, cartography, and architecture, Al-Hadid's work gives form to ghostly images abstractly rendered in materials as various as steel, polymer gypsum, fiberglass, wood, foa, plaster, aluminum foil, and pigment. Al-Hadid's process-based explorations innovate from commonplace industrial materials. She formidable presence sits steady in the lineage of creation and construction that we associate with empire, complicated by an often-elegiac tone.