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RON DIORIO
Ron Diorio is an artist working in a variety of media including photography & video. His art
has been exhibited internationally and is represented by Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, NY.
His photographs and publications are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, the Centre Canadien d’Architecture in Montreal, and the Getty Museum, Los
Angeles. Ron’s current video work focuses on short personal essays, weaving spoken word,
moving images, still photography, and content found on the Internet. Ron is VP for Product &
Community Development for The Economist online. He is a life long New Yorker and lives with
his wife and two children in northern Manhattan.
Statement of work
This work is both a break and a continuation of an exploration into personal story-telling and
interpretations. A progressive, yet ambiguous multiple-media form, it is at times deliberately
naive and often has a surreal, stream of conscious quality. I am using a time based medium as
a tool for introducing the non-linear as a fantasy guide; atomised fragments collide to invoke the
mythology of a poet, the lens of the photographer and the camera of the director.
They are psychologically and socially constrained, a marginalized present infused with an
unsettled past composed of new worlds which speak of cultural myth and invented narratives. It
takes as a starting point strange and remote qualities: unforgiving, romantic and sublime mixed
with pastoral traditions in the context of an urban consumerist culture. The synergy of abstract
and physical spaces reflect the tension between representation, perception and desire.
The process of assembling each work pushed me to consider the gamut of photographic
possibility and to reflect on my own relationship to the photographic image. While sparse and
suggestive they are intended to be seen in relation to each other, a sometimes innovative
process with all of the unexpected twists.
Ron Diorio
born. 1959, New York, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Comin' Around Again, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Hometown, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, New York, NY
Around here, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, New York, NY
2005
Anytown, The Economist Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
“memory” and “identity”, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA ( April )
One Minute Volume 5, Presented by Virginia Hilyard and Peloton Gallery, Redfern NSW ( April )
CologneOFF 2012 Serbia, @ International Short Film Festival ACTION II Prokuplje (March)
7th Berlin International Directors Lounge (February)
One Minute Volume 5, FACT Liverpool UK (January)
2011
Photo Forum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Nov -Jan)
Glimmer,The Hull International Short Film Festival (Oct)
One Minute Volume 5, Vertical Cinema, Cardiff, UK (Oct)
One Minute Volume 5, London Underground Film Session, UK (August)
One Minute Volume 5 , Aid and abet, Cambridge, UK (July)
Currents 2011, Santa Fe New Mexico (June)
Directors Lounge at Contemporary Art Ruhr 2011, the media art fair, (June)
A century of artist films, Oriel Mwldan, Wales UK (May - July)
Directors Lounge at the Los Angeles Arts Association (April)
Carnival of e-Creativity in India (Manipulated image #12), Uttarakhand, India (February)
7th Berlin International Directors Lounge (February)
2010
The Independents @ Liverpool Biennial, Domino Gallery (September/November)
Translations … art inspired by the word, Victoria College, Texas (October)
Ark Festival in Cardiff, UK (July)
Misc: Video and Performance, New York Studio Gallery, NY (May/June)
Manipulated image #12, Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, New Mexico
6th Berlin International Directors Lounge (February)
2009
2nd Annual Narrative Shorts International Film Festival, Chico State University (November/
December)
Cologne OFF (September)
Outcasting Season 9 (August/September)
Sweet Escape, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA
2007
From Sun to Megapixels, Williamsburg Cultural Center, Brooklyn, NY
13th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2006
Over The Edge, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta GA
2005
Soul Witness, Positive Focus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Photography Now 2005, Center for Photography at Woodstock
Art Endures, Annenberg Conference Center, Langhorne PA
2004
Originate, Refocus-now, London, UK
International Open Image, Waterloo Gallery, London UK
Select Collections
The Canadian Centre for Architecture
Kunstwerk - The Allison & Peter Klein Collection
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
The Sir Elton John Photography Collection
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
04_ron_diorio
A girl in my spam folder
RON DIORIO
Ron Diorio is an artist working in a variety of media including photography & video. His art
has been exhibited internationally and is represented by Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, NY.
His photographs and publications are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, the Centre Canadien d’Architecture in Montreal, and the Getty Museum, Los
Angeles. Ron’s current video work focuses on short personal essays, weaving spoken word,
moving images, still photography, and content found on the Internet. Ron is VP for Product &
Community Development for The Economist online. He is a life long New Yorker and lives with
his wife and two children in northern Manhattan.
Statement of work
This work is both a break and a continuation of an exploration into personal story-telling and
interpretations. A progressive, yet ambiguous multiple-media form, it is at times deliberately
naive and often has a surreal, stream of conscious quality. I am using a time based medium as
a tool for introducing the non-linear as a fantasy guide; atomised fragments collide to invoke the
mythology of a poet, the lens of the photographer and the camera of the director.
They are psychologically and socially constrained, a marginalized present infused with an
unsettled past composed of new worlds which speak of cultural myth and invented narratives. It
takes as a starting point strange and remote qualities: unforgiving, romantic and sublime mixed
with pastoral traditions in the context of an urban consumerist culture. The synergy of abstract
and physical spaces reflect the tension between representation, perception and desire.
The process of assembling each work pushed me to consider the gamut of photographic
possibility and to reflect on my own relationship to the photographic image. While sparse and
suggestive they are intended to be seen in relation to each other, a sometimes innovative
process with all of the unexpected twists.
Ron Diorio
born. 1959, New York, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Comin' Around Again, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Hometown, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, New York, NY
Around here, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, New York, NY
2005
Anytown, The Economist Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
“memory” and “identity”, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA ( April )
One Minute Volume 5, Presented by Virginia Hilyard and Peloton Gallery, Redfern NSW ( April )
CologneOFF 2012 Serbia, @ International Short Film Festival ACTION II Prokuplje (March)
7th Berlin International Directors Lounge (February)
One Minute Volume 5, FACT Liverpool UK (January)
2011
Photo Forum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Nov -Jan)
Glimmer,The Hull International Short Film Festival (Oct)
One Minute Volume 5, Vertical Cinema, Cardiff, UK (Oct)
One Minute Volume 5, London Underground Film Session, UK (August)
One Minute Volume 5 , Aid and abet, Cambridge, UK (July)
Currents 2011, Santa Fe New Mexico (June)
Directors Lounge at Contemporary Art Ruhr 2011, the media art fair, (June)
A century of artist films, Oriel Mwldan, Wales UK (May - July)
Directors Lounge at the Los Angeles Arts Association (April)
Carnival of e-Creativity in India (Manipulated image #12), Uttarakhand, India (February)
7th Berlin International Directors Lounge (February)
2010
The Independents @ Liverpool Biennial, Domino Gallery (September/November)
Translations … art inspired by the word, Victoria College, Texas (October)
Ark Festival in Cardiff, UK (July)
Misc: Video and Performance, New York Studio Gallery, NY (May/June)
Manipulated image #12, Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, New Mexico
6th Berlin International Directors Lounge (February)
2009
2nd Annual Narrative Shorts International Film Festival, Chico State University (November/
December)
Cologne OFF (September)
Outcasting Season 9 (August/September)
Sweet Escape, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA
2007
From Sun to Megapixels, Williamsburg Cultural Center, Brooklyn, NY
13th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2006
Over The Edge, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta GA
2005
Soul Witness, Positive Focus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Photography Now 2005, Center for Photography at Woodstock
Art Endures, Annenberg Conference Center, Langhorne PA
2004
Originate, Refocus-now, London, UK
International Open Image, Waterloo Gallery, London UK
Select Collections
The Canadian Centre for Architecture
Kunstwerk - The Allison & Peter Klein Collection
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
The Sir Elton John Photography Collection
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA