A L E J A N D R O D I A Z
Lives and works in New York
Education
1999
MA Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1987
BFA University of Texas at Austin
Solo Exhibitions
2014
Archologie, 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
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
Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE
1988
Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX
Group Shows
2014
R E D U X, Dorfman+ , New York, NY
Playing with Fire: Political Interventions, Dissident Acts, and Mischievous Actions, El Museo Del Barrio, NYC
2013
Looking Back at Tomorrow; the first 5 years of royale projects, Palm Desert, CA
2012
Read Into It, Dorfman+, New York, NY
2011
St. Moritz Art Masters, 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
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
Fall Selections '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
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
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Fundación Colleción Jumex, Mexico City
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
El Museo del Barrio, NY
Cindy Sherman, New York, NY
Neil Patrick Harris, Los Angeles, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum (in progress)
as well as private collections in the U.S. and abroad.
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
Lecturer, The influence of Mexican Folk Art on the Contemporary, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX. February 1996
Residencies
1996
ArtPace International Artist-in Residence Program, San Antonio, TX
1994
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Grants, Fellowships, Commissions
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 Project
Frances T. and Stephen P. Magee – supplemental grant for the Havana Biennial Project
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
1999
Downtown Arts Projects, New York, NY (summer)
1998
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (summer)
Bibliography
Texas Contemporary Art Fair: Live Blog, Glasstire, Oct. 2011
Bennet, Steve, Social, Political Issues Drive Artist's Humor, My San Antonio, July. 2010
Dickens, Scott, Seeing "Multiples" at the David Shelton Gallery, Examiner Aug. 2009
Fuller, Daniel, Alejandro Diaz The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Art Lies, 2009
Ollman, Leah, Art Review: Alejandro Diaz at Happy Lion, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 2009
Drysdale, Rebekah, Alejandro Diaz, Daily Serving, Oct. 2009
Alejandro Diaz: Blame it on Mexico, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Feb. 2009
The Nate Berkus Show – House Proud: Texas Dance Hall
Knight, Christopher, Phantom Sightings at LACMA, Los Angeles Times, April 15 2008
Ryan, Jeffrey, What Do You Care? Frieze Magazine, Dec. 12, 2007
Robinson, Walter, Fair Weather? Artnet Magazine, Oct. 2007
Cotter, Holland, Art in Review, New York Times, July 2007
Rosenberg, Karen, An Afternoon in Chelsea, New York Magazine, Summer 2007
Talespining, 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
FILES, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contempraneo, Castilla y Leon, Spain, Feb. 2004
Gopnik, Blake, In Havana, An Air of Possibilities, Washington Post, Nov 16, 2003
Garcia, Miki, Interview with Alejandro Diaz www.Apollo13art.com; April 2003
Sloley, Emma, Personal Space, Harper's Bazaar – Australia, Jan. 2003
Hamburger, Susan, Artburgher: Alejandro Diaz - Souvenirs, WaterFront Weekly, Oct. 2001
Cotter, Holland, Picking Out Distinctive Voices…, The New York Times, Aug. 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
Weiss, Ann, On View, New Art Examiner, March 1995
Finding the Authentic…, Financial Times, June 1995
Cantu, Enrique, Jovenes Curadores, Poliester, Sept. 1993
Guerra, Maria, Arte Tex-Mex, Poliester, Sept. 1992
Scott-Fox, Lorna, Arte en su Lugar, La Jornada Semanal, Dec. 1990
Kartofel, Graciela, Arte en Capsulas, Vogue-Mexico, May 1991
Gambrell, Jamie, Texas State of the Art, Art in America, March 1987
Lives and works in New York
Education
1999
MA Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1987
BFA University of Texas at Austin
Solo Exhibitions
2014
Archologie, 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
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
Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE
1988
Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX
Group Shows
2014
R E D U X, Dorfman+ , New York, NY
Playing with Fire: Political Interventions, Dissident Acts, and Mischievous Actions, El Museo Del Barrio, NYC
2013
Looking Back at Tomorrow; the first 5 years of royale projects, Palm Desert, CA
2012
Read Into It, Dorfman+, New York, NY
2011
St. Moritz Art Masters, 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
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
Fall Selections '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
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
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Fundación Colleción Jumex, Mexico City
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
El Museo del Barrio, NY
Cindy Sherman, New York, NY
Neil Patrick Harris, Los Angeles, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum (in progress)
as well as private collections in the U.S. and abroad.
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
Lecturer, The influence of Mexican Folk Art on the Contemporary, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX. February 1996
Residencies
1996
ArtPace International Artist-in Residence Program, San Antonio, TX
1994
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Grants, Fellowships, Commissions
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 Project
Frances T. and Stephen P. Magee – supplemental grant for the Havana Biennial Project
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
1999
Downtown Arts Projects, New York, NY (summer)
1998
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (summer)
Bibliography
Texas Contemporary Art Fair: Live Blog, Glasstire, Oct. 2011
Bennet, Steve, Social, Political Issues Drive Artist's Humor, My San Antonio, July. 2010
Dickens, Scott, Seeing "Multiples" at the David Shelton Gallery, Examiner Aug. 2009
Fuller, Daniel, Alejandro Diaz The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Art Lies, 2009
Ollman, Leah, Art Review: Alejandro Diaz at Happy Lion, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 2009
Drysdale, Rebekah, Alejandro Diaz, Daily Serving, Oct. 2009
Alejandro Diaz: Blame it on Mexico, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Feb. 2009
The Nate Berkus Show – House Proud: Texas Dance Hall
Knight, Christopher, Phantom Sightings at LACMA, Los Angeles Times, April 15 2008
Ryan, Jeffrey, What Do You Care? Frieze Magazine, Dec. 12, 2007
Robinson, Walter, Fair Weather? Artnet Magazine, Oct. 2007
Cotter, Holland, Art in Review, New York Times, July 2007
Rosenberg, Karen, An Afternoon in Chelsea, New York Magazine, Summer 2007
Talespining, 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
FILES, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contempraneo, Castilla y Leon, Spain, Feb. 2004
Gopnik, Blake, In Havana, An Air of Possibilities, Washington Post, Nov 16, 2003
Garcia, Miki, Interview with Alejandro Diaz www.Apollo13art.com; April 2003
Sloley, Emma, Personal Space, Harper's Bazaar – Australia, Jan. 2003
Hamburger, Susan, Artburgher: Alejandro Diaz - Souvenirs, WaterFront Weekly, Oct. 2001
Cotter, Holland, Picking Out Distinctive Voices…, The New York Times, Aug. 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
Weiss, Ann, On View, New Art Examiner, March 1995
Finding the Authentic…, Financial Times, June 1995
Cantu, Enrique, Jovenes Curadores, Poliester, Sept. 1993
Guerra, Maria, Arte Tex-Mex, Poliester, Sept. 1992
Scott-Fox, Lorna, Arte en su Lugar, La Jornada Semanal, Dec. 1990
Kartofel, Graciela, Arte en Capsulas, Vogue-Mexico, May 1991
Gambrell, Jamie, Texas State of the Art, Art in America, March 1987