Resume
A L E J A N D R O D I A Z
Born: San Antonio, TX 1963
Lives and works in New York City
Education
MA Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 1999
BFA University of Texas at Austin 1987
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Alejandro Diaz Sampler, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Alejandro Diaz - Paintings, David Shelton Gallery, Houston TX
2014 It Takes a Village, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
Archeologie, Royale Projects, Palm Desert, CA
2012 RISD Business: Sassy Signs and Sculptures by Alejandro Diaz, RISD Museum,
Providence, RI
2011 The Townhouse of New York, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA
2010 Just in Queso.. David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX
World’s Largest Cardboard Sign, the Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 Blame it on Mexico, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2006 A Can for All Seasons, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
2005 A Can for All Seasons, Public Art Fund, New York, NY
2003 Back in 5 minutes, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX
2001 Souvenirs, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Solo Project, the Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA
1996 Alejandro Diaz, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
1995 Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos
Introductions '95, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
1994 Karen Rhymer Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Alejandro Diaz, Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE
1988 Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX
Selected Group Shows
2022 Chicanx Art: Dreamers + Change Makers, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC
2021 Stirring Glows, Curated by Zeljka Himbele, Urban Glass, New York, NY
2020 Printing the Revolution: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics 1965 to Now
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Alejandro Diaz & Jesse Amado, Double Pleasure, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY
2016 Hello My Name is …Los Angeles, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2015 More Than Words: Text Based Artworks, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX
2014 Playing with Fire: Political Interventions, Dissident Acts, and Mischievous Actions,
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2013 Looking Back at Tomorrow: The First 5 years of Royale Projects, Palm Desert, CA
2012 Read Into It, Dorfman Projects, New York, NY
2011 St. Moritz Art Masters, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2009 Seriously Funny, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
2008 Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
What Do You Care? Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Declaration of Immigration, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
A New Cosmopolitanism: Preeminence of Place in Contemporary Art, California State
Univ. Fullerton
2007 Ceci n’est pas…, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Surge – 798 Dashanzi Art Festival, Beijing, China
2006 Body Double Forum + Elzbieta Koscielak Gallery Cultural Center Zamek,
Lesnica Castle, Wroclaw, Poland
Light /Art: Mystic, Crystal, Revelation, Santa Barbara Contemporary
Arts Forum, CA
Works on Paper Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Tres Años, Tres Amigos, Trés Chic, New World Museum, Houston, TX
Four Freedoms, Marin Art Gallery, Muhlenburg College, Allenstown, PA
Apropiaciones, KBK Galleria Contemporanea, Mexico City, DF
Never Leaving Atzlan, Museo de Las Americas, Denver, CO
2005 Gift: Wrap and Set Boutique, Julia Friedman Gallery, NY
Cheap and Chic, Galeria O-Itatti, Mexico City, Mexico
The Superfly Effect, Jersey City Museum, NJ
2004 Talespinning: Selections Fall ‘04, The Drawing Center, NY
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
Pequeñas Escenas, Galeria Animal, Santiago, Chile
Neo-Queer, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Postcards from Cuba: Selections from the 8th Havana Biennial,
Heine Onstad Kuntsenter, Oslo, Norway
2003 I (Heart) CUBA, Eighth Havana Biennial, Cuba
2002 Grotto, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Queer Visualities, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
2001 Cartoon-like, Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
2000 S-Files, El Museo del Barrio, NY
Latino Redux, University of North Texas State, Denton
1997 Simply Beautiful, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
1996 Synthesis and Subversion: A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art,
Art Gallery, University of Texas at San Antonio and UTSA Satellite Space
1991 Material as Message, Glassel School of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, TX
Las Manos del Artista, Casona - Centro Cultural de la Secretaria, Mexico City,
Marcas Registrada, Galleria Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Extranjeros en Mexico: Francis Alys, Alex Vaness, Alejandro Diaz, Eugenia Vargas,
Silvia Grunner, Taller Diaz, Mexico City
1989 Blue Star IV, Curated by Lucy Lippard, Blue Star ArtSpace, San Antonio, TX
Collections
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Fundación Colleción Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
RISD Musem of Art, Providence, RI
National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
Musem of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Residencies
1996 ArtPace International Artist-in Residence Program, San Antonio, TX
1994 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Other Activities
Lecturer, I.P.O. Artist - Curator dialogues, Whitney Museum of American Art. Nov. 11, 2003
Panelist, Latino Redux: A Collections of Stories, Lies, and Embellishments, Southwest Texas State University, Denton, TX. February 2000
Panelist, American Canvas: A Roundtable on the 1997 NEA Report, Art Journal Vol. 57 No. 3 (Fall 1998), p. 69-76
Founder, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX. December 1996
Grants, Fellowships, Commissions
2009 Art Matters Foundation - Travel Grant
2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
2004 Public Art Fund, In the Public Realm, New York, NY
2003 Linda Pace and ArtPace – supplemental grant for the Havana Biennial
Frances T. and Stephen P. Magee – supplemental grant for the Havana Biennial
1998-1999 Bard College, Curatorial Studies Fellowship, NY
1994 Margaret Pace - Robert Wilson Foundation Grant
1993 River Pierce Foundation Grant
1992 Umlauf Award in Sculpture, University of Texas at Austin
Internships
Downtown Arts Projects, New York, NY (summer 1999)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (summer 1998)
Bibliography
Moody-Castro, Leslie, Artforum Critics’ Picks, Alejandro Diaz at the Linda Pace Foundation, July 2015
Orion Schwaiger, Seth, Alejandro Diaz and the Currency of Clout, Arts + Culture Magazine, June 7, 2015
Warren, Chris, An Artistic Homecoming, San Antonio Magazine, April 2015
Bennett, Steve, It Takes a Village Showcases Alejandro Diaz’s Political Art, San Antonio Express News, April 21, 2015
Munsell, Liz, Artforum Critics’ Picks, Alejandro Diaz at RISD, March 2013
Ventura, Anya, Sassy Signs and Sculptures by Alejandro Diaz, Art New England, Jan.-Feb. 2013
McQuaid, Cate, RISD Business: Sassy Signs and Sculptures by Alejandro Diaz, Boston Globe, Nov. 22, 2012
Tannenbaum J., Pickworth A. 2012, RISD Business: Sassy Signs and Sculptures by Alejandro Diaz, RISD Museum of Art, exhibition brochure, Nov. 16 – June 9, Meridian Printing, East Greenwich, RI
The Nate Berkus Show – House Proud: Texas Dance Hall, aired Apr. 2011
Monie, Karin, Laboratorio de Arte Contemporaneo, Architectural Digest Mexico, Sept. 2010
Bennett, Steve, Social, Political Issues Drive Artist’s Humor, San Antonio Express News, July. 2010
Cotter, Holland, Art Review, Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, New York Times, May 7, 2010
Johnson, Ken, They’re Chicanos and Artists. But is their Art Chicano?, New York Times, April 9, 2010
Fuller, Daniel, Alejandro Diaz, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Art Lies, Issue #63, Fall 2009
Ollman, Leah, Art Review: Alejandro Diaz at Happy Lion, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 13, 2009
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Muchnic, Suzanne, New Arrivals from L.A. Galleries, Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2009
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Knight, Christopher, Phantom Sightings at LACMA, Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2008
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Ryan, Jeffrey, What Do You Care?, Frieze Magazine, Dec. 12, 2007
Robinson, Walter, Fair Weather? Artnet, Oct. 2007
Rosenberg, Karen, An Afternoon in Chelsea, New York Magazine, Summer 2007
Medina, C., Mantecon, A., Debroise, O., The Age of Discrepancies: Art and Visual Culture in Mexico 1968-1997, Turner and UNAM, 2007
Ewing, John, Alejandro Diaz: A Can for All Seasons, Art Lies, Issue # 48, Fall 2005
Diaz, Alejandro, On Art, Mexico, Food, and Friends, Public Art Fund & Francis Alys, Edited by Anne Wehr, Grenfill Press, distributed by D.A.P., printed by
Trifolio, Verona Italy, 2004
Zamudio-Taylor, V. 2004 Pover Lite:The Text Drawings of Alejandro Diaz, Drawing Papers 47, exhibition catalogue, Drawing Center Publications
Talespinning, The New Yorker, Oct 18, 2004
Glueck, Grace, Working Words into Images, New York Times, Sept. 24, 2004
Herzberg, Julia, 8th Havana Biennial, ArtNexus, Issue #52, Apr. 2004
Gopnik, Blake, In Havana, An Air of Possibilities, Washington Post, Nov 16, 2003
Garcia, Miki, Interview with Alejandro Diaz Apollo13art.com, April 2003
Sloley, Emma, Personal Space, Harper’s Bazaar – Australia, Jan. 2003
Hamburgher, Susan, Artburgher: Alejandro Diaz - Souvenirs, WaterFront Weekly, Oct. 2001
Cotter, Holland, Picking Out Distinctive Voices…, The New York Times, Aug. 18, 2000
Sirmans, Franklin, The S-Files, Time Out New York, Aug. 2000
Goddard, Dan, Denton Show … Texas Hispanics, San Antonio Express & News, March 2000
Sirmans, Franklin, Cityscape San Antonio, FlashArt, Summer 1998
Finding the Authentic…, Financial Times, June 1995
Weiss, Ann, On View, New Art Examiner, March 1995
Cantu, Enrique, Jovenes Curadores, Poliester, Sept. 1993
Guerra, Maria, Arte Tex-Mex, Poliester, Sept. 1992
Kartofel, Graciela, Arte en Capsulas, Vogue-Mexico, May 1991
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Gambrell, Jamie, Texas State of the Art, Art in America, March 1987