Luis Manuel Diaz is a Mexican-born visual artist working with photography. Drawing from personal and communal history, his practice examines the post-migration consciousness. The work investigates notions of home, citizenship, and care. Diaz holds a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design and was recently awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography. He has exhibited work at Blue Sky Gallery, Aperture Foundation, Bronx Art Space, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, and Baxter st Camera Club. He's been commissioned by The Nation, The New Yorker, The California Sunday, and published by BOOOOOOOOM, JOIA, i-D, Musée, and Foam Magazine among others. Diaz is currently based in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is an MFA candidate in Photography at the Yale School of Art.
CONTACT
luismdiaz.photo@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2025 MFA Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (expected)
2019 BFA Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITION
2022 El Césped del Otro Lado, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 why do I always fall out of bed at night?, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2022 Turn Beauty into Strength, Coexist Exhibition, Taipei, TW
2021 Notions of Home, Lucie Foundation, web
2020 La Frontera: A New Latinx Lexicon, Humble Arts Foundation, web
Two Way Lens: Portraits as Empathy, Humble Arts Foundation, web
Your Reflection, This Memory, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY
2019 The Green Zine and Photo Book Fair, Baxter St. at CCNY, New York, NY
Parsons BFA Photography Thesis Show, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2018 Convergence, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, NY
SELECTED PRIZES, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography, (JGS Fellowship for Photography Recipient)
2021 Lucie Foundation Category Winner (B&W) for Notions of Home
2020 The Magnum Foundation: US Dispatches Grant
Bronx Documentary Center Portfolio Review Scholarship
EnFoco Photography Fellowship
2019 New York Times Portfolio Review
2018 The New School Student Research Award Fellowship
SELECTED COMMISSIONS & PUBLICATIONS
2023 MATTE Magazine, Exciting Photography Now. Dec (print)
The New Yorker, A Mother’s Grief in New Have, Nov 18 (web)
2022 The Atlantic, Father of Clarity by Tim Z. Hernandez, Nov 27 (web, print)
NYC Media, "That's So New York" EnFoco feature, Oct 13-16 (web, TV)
blind Magazine, Undershirts and Family History, June 18 (web)
JUXTAPOZ, Luis Manuel Diaz: El Césped del Otro Lado, June 7 (web)
2021 FotoFilmic, JRNL 10 Guest Edited by Paul Schiek, Fall 2021 issue (print)
JOIA Magazine, The Effects of Migration in Rural Mexico, by Luis M. Díaz February 17 (web)
Foam Magazine, On My Mind by Sara Urbaez, Talent 2021 issue #58 (print and web)
BOOOOOOOM, “El Agua Escondida” by Photographer Luis Manuel Diaz, February 04 (web)
LISTO, Luis Manuel Diaz: Portfolio Overview, January 04 (web)
2020 The Nation, The Latinx Future Will Not Look Like the Latinx Past, December 22 (web)
Elephant Magazine, Zine of The Month, December 2 (web)
The New Yorker, Coming Home, November 16 issue, (print and web)
Musée Magazine, Weekend Portfolio: Luis M. Diaz, September 18 (web)
Nueva Luz, Vol 24.1: The 2020 EnFoco Fellowship Issue (print and web)
2019 The California Sunday, The Death and Life of Frankie Madrid, August issue (print and web)