Diane Tuft

United States, 1947

Born and raised in East Hartford, Connecticut, Diane Tuft is a mixed media artist and, since 1998, her primary focus has been photography. In this work, Tuft deftly uses her camera lens to capture the striking ways in which environmental factors shape the Earth’s landscape. Traveling to remote areas such as the North and South Poles, Tuft has been able to visually document the effects of climate change and global warming through stunning and impactful images.

Tuft is the author of three monographs — UNSEEN: Beyond the Visible Spectrum; Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land and The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape.  Her work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions at prestigious museums including the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow (MAMM) in Russia, ROSPHOTO Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., amongst others.  The artist has also exhibited at other prominent venues such as the Marlborough Gallery, Ameringer-Yohe Gallery, and Pace Gallery in New York City. Her work is included in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The International Center of Photography in New York City, and The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, as well as in many private collections.

Tuft received her undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut and later studied photography at The New School and the International Center of Photography.  Tuft married in 1971 and from 1981-1989, while raising a family, she studied art at Pratt Institute.  The artist lives and works in New York City.