Luis Manuel Diaz is a Mexican-born visual artist working with photography. Drawing from personal history as an entry point, his work traces the internal and external consequences of migration. Using a view camera, he examines the construction of self, space, and history to uncover the unseen infrastructures that shape both body and land.
Diaz holds an MFA from Yale School of Art where he was the recipient of the Dean’s Prize (2025) and the Alice Kimball English Travel Grant (2024). He is also recipient of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography (2022), Magnum Foundations US Dispatches Grant (2020), and the EnFoco Photography Fellowship (2020). He has exhibited at Webber Gallery (Los Angeles), Gladstone Gallery (New York), Blue Sky Gallery, Aperture Foundation, Bronx Art Space, among others. His work has been commissioned by The New York Times, The Nation, The New Yorker, The California Sunday, and The Atlantic among others. He’s also been published in VICE's 2024 Photography Issue, BOOOOOOOOM, blind, i-D, Musée, Foam, and MATTE Magazine. Diaz currently lives and works between New York and Connecticut.
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