Diana Kurz lives and works in the Soho neighborhood of New York City. She was born in Vienna, Austria and emigrated to the US in 1940. She holds a BA from Brandeis University and an MFA from Columbia University. Kurz's art has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe, and is in many distinguished collections, including Wien Museum, Vienna; The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Rose Art Museum; Smith College Museum of Art; The Jewish Museum of Vienna; Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem; Bezirksmuseum Josefstadt, Vienna; Brooklyn Botanic Garden; Rowan University; US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, and other public and private collections.

She has received numerous grants and awards including, among others: a Fulbright Fellowship to France; American Center Residency in Paris; New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant; VCCA/Austrian Federal Ministry of the Arts Artist-In- Residence in Vienna; Atlantic Center for the Arts and artist residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Hambidge Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, VCCA and others. She has taught studio art at Queens College, Pratt Institute, Philadelphia College of Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Art Institute of Chicago.