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Education

2016 Miami University of Central Florida, B.F.A.
2019 Arizona State University, M.F.A.

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Courses Taught

Experimental Drawing
Figure Drawing
Drawing
Printmaking (Intaglio)

Career Specialties

All forms of drawing, with a focus on observational drawing as a tool of critical thinking. Experimental and non-traditional applications of mixed media within two-dimensional fine art.Ìý

Professional and Community Activities

Diaz's artwork is actively shown nationally, being included several times in Manifest Galleries annual Drawn exhibition. His work was recently shown in the group exhibition Drawing from Perception, Invention, and Memory, juried by Eve Mansdorf, and a solo exhibition at Leslie Powell Gallery in Lawton, Oklahoma. He has won several awards such as the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and the American Austrian Foundation Seebacher Prize, as well as being a finalist for the 2019 AXA Art Prize.Ìý

Honors and Awards

2023

Award of Merit, The 2023 Florida Printmakers Society Biennial Exhibition, Wynwood Gallery, University of Miami, Miami, FL (Awarded by Lise Drost, Professor of Drawing and Printmaking at the University of
Miami)

3rd Place Juror Award, The 43rd National Print Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN (Awarded by Marianetta Porter, Professor Emeritus at University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design)

Creative Projects Grant, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition

2019

The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant

Teaching Excellence Award, Graduate and Professional Student Association, Arizona State University

Artists’ Scholarship, Scottsdale Artists’ School

2017

Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts, American Austrian Foundation, Salzburg, Austria