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 expose the unseen infrastructures that shape both body and land.
Diaz is a recipient of the Yale School of Art Dean’s Prize (2025), Alice Kimball English Travel Grant (2024), NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography (2022), and Magnum Foundations US Dispatches Grant (2020). He has exhibited at Gladstone Gallery (New York), Blue Sky Gallery, Aperture Foundation, Bronx Art Space, among others. His work has been commissioned by The Nation, The New Yorker, The California Sunday, and The Atlantic and published in VICE's 2024 Photography Issue, BOOOOOOOOM, i-D, Musée, Blind, Foam, and MATTE Magazine. Diaz holds a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design and an MFA from Yale School of Art.
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