Sara Diamond is a television producer/director, video artist, curator, critic, teacher and artistic director who has represented Canada at home and internationally for many years. She is the artistic director of the Media and Visual Arts Department at the Banff Centre for the Arts, as well as the executive producer for television.
Her television productions include The Lull Before the Storm, a four-part series using fictional and documentary strategies exploring the history of Canadian women during and after WWII, and On to Ottawa, a re-examination of the 1935 trek to Ottawa by Canada's unemployed. Other video works have also been broadcast.
In 1992, Diamond was honoured by a retrospective exhibition and catalogue at the National Gallery of Canada, following a retrospective at the 1991 Images Festival in Toronto. She represented Canada in the 1992 Biennial in Sydney, Australia and at the Festival of the Arts in Budapest, Hungary. Among her many solo exhibitions was Paternity, an installation commissioned by the Vancouver Art Gallery and now located in the permanent collection of the National Gallery.
Her tapes have been screened in galleries, festivals, classrooms and community events Internationally. They have been collected by institutions such as the Art Bank, the Museum of Modern Art, the Walter Phillips Gallery and many universities, colleges, libraries, school boards and other organizations. Diamond has won numerous awards for her videos, including Keeping the Home Fires Burning, The Lull Before the Storm and Ten Dollars or Nothing. She has worked as a producer and director for other artists' works as well.
As a teacher, Diamond has provided workshops, lectures and short courses to many post-secondary institutions and art centres. For more than eight years, she filled various capacities on the faculty of the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, and spent two years at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. She was awarded the Gold Medal Win History by Simon Fraser University in 1990 and has won a long list of awards from the Canada Council, B.C. Film and B.C. Cultures.
Diamond is a respected curator, critic and writer, curating for many video and art exhibitions and writing for publications as diverse as FUSE magazine and legal anthologies. She has also served on many boards and juries, including the Vancouver Art Gallery and Video In and was a representative to the federal task force on training for the cultural sector. One of her most recent honours is the 1995 Bell Canada Award for excellence in video.

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