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BIO:
Darian Goldin Stahl is an American printmaker, bookmaker, and health researcher currently based in Kelowna, Canada. Darian holds Canada’s most distinguished postdoctoral appointment, a SSHRC Banting Fellowship, at the University of Northern British Columbia’s Northern Medical Program. Her postdoctoral project, Embodied Books: Binding Together Illness, Art, and Learning, equips intrepid bookmakers with the materials and know-how to communicate their lived experiences of illness and disability to medical learners through their handmade books. Darian graduated with distinction from Concordia University’s Humanities PhD Program in 2021, where she held Canada’s most prestigious graduate award, a SSHRC Vanier Scholarship. Her dissertation, “Book as Body: The Meaning-Making of Artists’ Books in the Health Humanities,” investigates how artists' books can become multi-sensory objects of lived experience on the topics of illness, disability, health, and wellbeing.
Darian conducts many forms of field work and outreach in relation to her artistic practice. In 2019, Darian held an Artist in Residence position at the McGill University Fertility Research Laboratory, and was a Visiting Scholar in the University of Kent’s Medical Humanities Program in Canterbury, England. Before then, Darian was the Artist in Residence for Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal out of Columbia University. As well, Darian develops and conducts workshops that teach others how to create artists’ books to sensorially communicate the body. She has conducted these workshops in Canterbury (England), Paris, Montreal, and Lansing (Michigan). Darian and her collaborating sister, Devan Stahl, published an edited volume on their practice in the health humanities entitled, “Imaging and Imagining Illness: Becoming Whole in a Broken Body,” through Wipf and Stock Press in 2018.
Darian situates her practice within the health humanities, which seeks to illuminate health experiences outside of strictly clinical contexts. Her work merges patient narrative, biomedical imaging technology, and multi-sensory printmaking practices. She employs visual and sensory metaphors, including biomedical scans, sound, light, aromatic oils, and skin impressions, to represent what it is like to live with bodily unease. This research-creation project is a collaborative cycle of informing and reconstructing illness identity, with the aim of advancing the field of health humanities and fostering empathetic relationships between medical personnel and those who live with illness.
Darian holds an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta and a BFA in Printmaking from Indiana University Bloomington. She has received grants from many organizations to fund the production of her artwork, including the Edmonton Arts Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Hexagram (Montreal), the Rose and Leon Zitner Award for Citizen Participation in Healthcare and Well-Being, the Carolyn & Richard Renaud foundation, and the Renata and Michal Hornstein Foundation. Before beginning her PhD, Darian completed an eight-month Scholarship Residency at Malaspina Printmakers in Vancouver. She has exhibited her work in many galleries and conference venues around the world, including the Medical Museum of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, the Gladstone Hotel Art and Design Festival (Toronto), Impact 10 (Santander, Spain), Martha Street Studio (Winnipeg), Kelowna Art Gallery, Kimura Art Gallery (Anchorage, Alaska), Art Gallery of St. Albert (Alberta), and the Ottawa School of Art.
Please feel free to email me any questions, comments, or purchase inquiries: Dariangoldinstahl@gmail.com
Interview with Darian Goldin Stahl on the Binary ReVisions project, and Artist in Residence position at the McGill University Fertility Research Laboratory. January 2020.
Artist Presentation: The Sensory Aspects of Artists’ Books 2019
