Teresa Diehl involves installation, video, sound, sculpture, and photography. Her work is a hallucinatory feast for the senses – smell, texture, sound, touch, visuality itself, are stretched and played before the viewer. And the body is experienced in strangely unfamiliar ways to both seduce the viewer into the closeness of the encounter yet cause a concomitant discomfort, less for being viewed while viewing, than for the utter unknowabitly of the body. Diehl’s sculptural installations continue the sensual challenge of her work where the material confronts the form.

Teresa Diehl was born in Tannourin, Lebanon; she grew up in Caracas, Venezuela and currently resides in Miami, Florida. She received her BFA degree in Photography at Florida International University in 1985 and an MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989. In 2007 she was the recipient of the South Florida Art Consortium and the SunTrust Endow Teaching Chair from Broward College. In 2011, Diehl’s installations of hand carved glycerin soap and video was presented in “Maria/Maria 1511/2011,” an exhibition that juxtaposed her and other contemporary artist to the etchings of Albrecht Durer, at the Museum Montanelli in Prague.

Teresa Diehl’s work has been exhibited internationally, including: Museum Montanelli - Prague, Czech Republic; Glass Curtain Gallery - Columbia College Chicago, Illinois; Estacionarte - Mexico D.F, Mexico; National Gallery of the Cayman Island - Cayman Island; Art and Culture Center of Hollywood - Hollywood, California; Slocumb Galleries - East Tennesee State University; The Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, Florida; Museo de Artes Visuales - Caracas, Venezuela