Current Position
Printmaker, Illustrator, & Painter, Chicago, IL.

Website
www.dianasudyka.com

Title Civil War Widow
Year Spring 2007
Medium Four-Color Intaglio

Statement: Diana Sudyka lives and works in Chicago. She initially worked as a printmaker for Tony Fitzpatrick at Big Cat Press, and at Landfall Press for several years, until getting a Masters of Fine Art from Northwestern University. She then worked alongside 15th and 16th century manuscripts, and archives including the John M. Wing History of Printing and Book Arts Collection at Chicago's Newberry Library. Currently, she works as an illustrator, focusing on watercolors, etchings and screen printed posters.

Sudyka’s has work published in The Art of Modern Rock and The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror. Sudyka has designed gig posters and illustrations for bands such as Modest Mouse, Andrew Bird, Iron and Wine, The Decemberists, Jeff Tweedy, and Low. Her work has been exhibited at Giant Robot NY, the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester, UK, and the Uppercase Gallery in Calgary. Sudyka’s work can be viewed online at dianasudyka.com, thetinyaviary.blogspot.com, and gigposters.com.

When not drawing all sorts of small mammals with her husband, Jay, she is hanging out with Seth the Greyhound, volunteering in the Field Museum's Bird Division, and engaging in general bird watching nerdiness. Chicago has a great printing tradition and community and she's proud to have ink under her fingernails.