Diana Thater | MCA Santa Barbara Art Awards
The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara’s Art Awards honor and recognize individuals or organizations that have made a significant impact on the arts and culture of the region.
Diana Thater is awarded this honor alongside composer Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin and artists Gabriela Ruiz and Manjari Sharma.
Thater has pioneered the use of film, video, light, and sound, continually challenging the boundaries of time-based media and installation art. Her work explores the relationship between the natural and man-made worlds while critically examining the structures of mediated reality. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including literature, animal behavior sciences, mathematics, chess, and sociology, her evocative works directly engage their surroundings, producing an intricate relationship between time and space.