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Based in New York City since 1996, Alejandro Diaz is originally from San Antonio, where he developed an exciting and pertinent body of work exemplifying the complex and visually rich cultural milieu particular to South Texas and Mexico. Diaz’s conceptual, campy, and political cardboard signs—which he began making and selling on the streets of Manhattan in the late 1990s—are emblematic of his humour-infused politics and his involvement with art as a form of entertainment, activism, and public intervention. His ongoing series of cardboard signs continues to evolve, with some sayings now produced in neon.
In 2007, Diaz was the recipient of the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and in the following year he was selected to participate in the renowned group exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Most recently Diaz was included in a major travelling exhibition called ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, which opened in 2021 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
We asked the artist to share their favourite things | Le pedimos a cada artista que comparta sus cosas favoritas.
