Diana Dima Art Card

About me

Diana Dima is a visual artist, born in 1993 in a small town in Romania. She started to draw as a child, mostly characters from her favorite cartoon (anime) broadcast on TV, Sailor Moon. In the 90s many cartoons from DC, Marvel, and Japanese cartoons were broadcast on television. As a child, she did not realize the impact of cartoons on her future career.

After attending a fine arts high school, she graduated from the visual art faculty. During her faculty period, she experimented with different styles such as the study of portraiture, artistic anatomy, and abstract but also comics.

Her artwork takes a critical view of personal, social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing Japanese culture, or artists such as Frank Miller, Frank Frazetta, and H.R.Giger, her work explores the varying relationships between popular cultures and fine arts. She is concerned with portraying her inner experiences and tries to capture the very essence of beauty in the dark and the macabre.

Having engaged subjects as diverse as the feminism movement, goth/punk/metal music, and creatures that are considered “ugly”, her work reproduces familiar visual and aural signs, arranging them into new conceptual artworks. While she uses a variety of materials and processes in each project her methodology is consistent. Although there may not always be material similarities between the different artworks, they are linked by recurring formal concerns and through the subject matter. The subject matter of each artwork determines the materials and the forms of the work. Each project often consists of multiple works, often in various media, grouped around specific themes and meanings.