Artist Jewelry & Diane Venet

Born in Paris, Diane Venet has been immersed in the art world from an early age. Surrounded by a family of collectors, her father Jacques Segard was President of the Société des Amis du Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris for several years. From 1967 to 1976, she worked as a radio and TV journalist, co-presenting the weekly cultural program Samedi Soir on France 2. Diane's first marriage was to a French diplomat, with whom she lived in Japan and Morocco, and had two daughters, Esther and Bérénice. After meeting French sculptor Bernar Venet, Diane moved to New York in the late 80s, and assisted her husband in organizing his exhibitions around the world. Diane Venet is an avid collector of art as well as artist's jewelry. She was able to solicit the loan - and sometimes even the creation - of pieces by many of the most important sculptors and painters of the 20th and early 21st centuries for her successful and highly acclaimed exhibition "Bijoux Sculptures" at Robaix's Musée La Piscine in the Spring of 2008. The exhibition featured 170 works by 75 artists and was accompanied by a book published by Gallimard. Its success in Robaix initiated a series of exhibitions entitled "Picasso to Jeff Koons: The Artist as Jeweler". She later curated and presented her collection in exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York (2011), at the Benaki Museum in Athens (2012), IVAM in Valencia (2013), the Bass Museum in Miami (2013), the Hangaram Design Museum at the Seoul Art Center (2013), Palazzo Nani Mocenigo in Venice (2015), the National Museum in Riga (2017), and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (2018). Recent exhibitions include the Forum Grimaldi in Monaco (2021), the "Cercle Cite" in Luxembourg (2021), the Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain in Brussels (2023) and the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach (2025).

Diane Venet's collection has been the subject of several important publications, including "Bijoux Sculpture: L'art vous va si bien" by Gallimard (2008), "The Artist as Jeweler: From Picasso to Jeff Koons" by Flammarion (2011), and "Bijoux d'artistes, de Calder à Koons. La collection ideale de Diane Venet" by Flammarion and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (2018).