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My work as a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and organizer explores identity, cultural memory, and the transformative power of collective storytelling. Rooted in painting, photography, and public practice, I draw from queer and Zapotec traditions, family archives, and ritual to examine diasporic Cuban and Mexican experiences and the sacred within the everyday. Layering functions as both a conceptual and physical process—images fold into themselves, materials accumulate, and meanings shift over time. Some works remain in motion, activated by natural forces, echoing the fluidity of identity and memory. Through poetic symbolism and collaborative gestures, I invite us to dream toward liberatory futures grounded in ancestral knowledge and collective care.
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Sol Diaz-Peña is a Houston-based artist and community organizer whose work explores identity, memory, and collective storytelling. They have exhibited at Lawndale Art Center, Blaffer Art Museum, Project Row Houses, and other venues throughout their hometown. Diaz-Peña has held residencies at Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), the Artists’ Literacy Institute (New York, NY), and Project Row Houses (Houston, TX). Their work is featured in New American Paintings No. 174. Juried by Dr. Anita N. Bateman. In 2024, they received the Arts and Media Award from the Houston Transgender Unity Committee.
A co-organizer of OpenMFA since 2022, Diaz-Peña helped secure the collective’s residency at Asia Society Texas Center and its participation in the 2024 Texas Biennial. In 2025, the collective received The Idea Fund award for their project Absurd Classroom. Diaz is also a core member of Kitchen Table Puppets + Press, which toured the large puppet performance Recipes of Resistance Spring 2025 in partnership with ACLU Texas.
Diaz-Peña holds a B.A. in Humanities with a concentration in Critical Race Studies from the University of Houston–Downtown.
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Thank you!