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BIO:
Dr. Darian Goldin Stahl is an American printmaker based in Kelowna, Canada, on the unceded traditional lands of the Syilx (Okanagan) peoples. Her work resides at the intersection of medical experiences and sensory caretaking through art. Stahl holds a BFA in Printmaking from Indiana University Bloomington and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta. Stahl then achieved a research-creation PhD in Humanities from Concordia University in 2021, where she held Canada’s highest graduate award, a SSHRC Vanier Scholarship. Her dissertation is now available through Peter Lang International Academic Publishers: Embodied Books: Experiencing the Health Humanities through Artists’ Books.
Stahl is currently a Printmaking Instructor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. She also 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, equips intrepid bookmakers with the materials and know-how to communicate their lived experiences of illness and disability through the medium of handmade books.
Stahl 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, hospital gowns, laboratory equipment, 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 fostering empathetic relationships between medical personnel, the general public, and those who seek healing.
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. She was awarded a four month artist residency at the McGill University Fertility Research Laboratory, which has informed the vast majority of her current work. 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. Stahl’s most notable achievement was the acquisition of her entire suite of artist’s books by the acclaimed medical art institution, the Wellcome Collection in London, where her books continue to evoke health discourses with public audiences.
Email: dariangoldinstahl@gmail.com
Socials: @dariangoldin
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
