David Diao (born 1943) is a Chinese American artist and teacher based in New York City.
Several years of his childhood were spent in Hong Kong, at the moment of the revolution in October 1949, before he ultimately settled in the United States.
Diao completed his undergraduate degree at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and in 1964 he moved back to New York.
[4] Diao has served on the faculty at Hampshire College where he met Walid Raad, with whom he has collaborated.
[11] Diao is currently represented by Greene Naftali, New York; Tanya Leighton, Berlin; and Office Baroque, Brussels.