Diana Lui is a French / Belgian artist, photographer, and filmmaker originally from Malaysia. She lived and studied in los angeles for 12 years before moving to europe in 1993, Belgium and France respectively. After studying fine arts in UCLA, she transferred to the world-renowned college for avant-garde design and other visual art forms, The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and graduated with a bachelor's degree in photography and fine arts.
Based in Paris for almost 10 ten years, Diana Lui works as a freelance photographer for numerous magazines in France, Portugal, America and South-East Asia. Despite working as a photographer, she continues to explore new themes and mediums in photography, oil paintings, ink and charcoal drawings, installations and short films. She has exhibited her photographs and art work in solo and group exhibits and won several awards in the USA, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Belgium, Paris (France), Mexico and Venezuela.
She was selected together with 100 other artists to represent today's young contemporary artists by the search for art committee which included curators/directors of leading world contemporary arts museum and galleries. In 2003, she won France’s 20th Bourse du talent (young talent award for photography) and second place for the Kodak critics’ award, both for her black and white 8x10 portraits. During september of 2003, she exhibited in the beautiful ancient town of Ping Yao in China for the Ping Yao international festival of photography 2003.
Diana Lui’s photographic work is collected by private collectors, museums and art institutions worldwide.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2010
- Galerie 127 Marraakech, Maroco, “Le voile essentiel”
- Sentiier du Rhone, Pont de Rochemaure en Ardeche, France “Riviere Infinie”
- Chateau de Maisons a Masions-Laffitte, France, “Pur Sang”
- Galerie Sponte, Paris, France, “Intemporel”
2009
- Valentine Villie Fine Art Gallery, Kualalumpur, Malezia and Singapure, “Cut 09”
- Galerie Sponte, Paris, France, “Photographie sous Influences”
2008
- Galerie Sinitude, Paris - "Femmes, Arbres et Hommes" (Trees, Women and Men).
2007
- Guangdong Museum of Art, China - “Cities of the Immortals”.
- HOP Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia - “Merimetsan Alchemy”.
- Museum od Traditional Costumes, Canari, Corsica.
2006
- Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia - ”Trees, Individuals, & Sexuality” .
- Aura Gallery, Shanghai, China - “Trees, Individuals, and Sexuality”.
2005
- Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela - “Intimate Portraits”.
2004
- Fototeca & Cineteca of Monterrey, Mexico - “Sensations”.
2003
- Galerie Cathay, Paris - “Intimate Portraits”
- Bibliothèque Robert Desnos, Paris - “ICONS”.
1990
- UCLA Kerchoff Gallery, Los Angeles, California. “Eros & Thanatos”.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2008
- Shanghai Art Museum, China - " Another Voice---We ".
- Huachen Auctions, Beijing, China.
- Galerie Sponte, Paris.
- ArtBeijing Fair, China - international contemporary art fair.
- Dashanbao Art Festival, Yunnan Province, China.
2007
- DesignMai Festival, Berlin.
- ArtCurial Auctions, Paris.
- Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia - "Sex Market".
2006
- Agnès B. , London - “Chance”.
- Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China.
- Jerwood Space, London - “Blurred Certainty”.
- Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, Belgium.
2004
- Beijing’s Millenium Museum for Contemporary Art - travelling exhibit from 3rd Ping Yao International Festival of Photography.
2003
- La Bourse du Talent - Espace Picto Montparnasse, Paris.
- The 3rd Ping Yao International Festival of Photography in China.
1993 – 1996
- National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - ”Photography as Art”.
- “Eroticism in Landscapes” - 4th Sutra Dance Festival – Malaysia.
- American Cultural Center – Brussels, Belgium
