Luis Diaz

Luis Diaz's work is a culmination of years of experience with color, design and painting. It stems from the human desire to find familiarity from marks and shapes. These paintings are the attempts at capturing these forms before they vanish. Sometimes they take several attempts, but the idea is to move fast and use different surfaces. Some porous. Some slick. His preferred materials include palette knives, spraying tools, needle nose ink dispensers and anything found walking in the street collected through the years. Diaz uses acrylics, inks, watercolors and mixtures collected on discarded 35 millimeter film canisters.

Born in Cardenas, Cuba his family migrated to the States in 1982 stopping in Costa Rica and Mexico along the way. His family established themselves in Miami where a young Diaz started to draw. Diaz would go on to a commerical art magnet high school and then major in Illustration at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore. Diaz has worked as an illustrator and graphic designer for TV, web, print and interactive for over 25 years. He currently paints at his art studio in the Midwest.

Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Bachelor of Fine Arts; cum laude

"Gods and Monsters Art Show", Minneapolis; October 5, 2019
"Cartoon and Comic Art Annual", Society of Illustrators, New York City; July 21-August 15, 2015
“The Reunion,” Bakehouse Art Complex; Wynwood (Miami); February 13-March 27, 2015
“Students of the Unusual”, Brevard Museum of Art; Florida; March 1-27, 2011
‘Littlest Sister 10 Group Show” curated by Spinello Gallery, Art Basel Week; Miami Arts District; December 3, 2010
"Innovate Love" Baltimore, MD; May 22, 2010
“Multiversal Group Show” (Art Basel) MiMo District; December 2009
“MASS-A-Peel: Paintings by Luis Diaz” Solo Show, Harold Golen Gallery, Wynwood October; 2009
"KAIJU Monster Invasion" curated by by Harold Golen Gallery , Miami Beach Dec. 3rd -Jan. 4th, 2009