Photos by Riley Ansa
Sol Diaz-Peña is a Cuban-Mexican-American Interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Houston, Texas. Drawing from Zapotec cosmology, spirit activism, and Rasquachismo, their work explores how cultural memory, migration, and gender-variant lineages inform bodies, land, and ritual. Working across image-making, social-practice, and performance, Diaz-Peña integrates familial archives, the cultural textures of their communities, found materials, and hand-made objects to investigate myth, allegory, and the porous boundary between human and nonhuman worlds.
Sol Díaz-Peña es una persona artista y curadora interdisciplinaria de origen cubano, mexicano y estadounidense que vive en Houston, Texas. Inspirándose en la cosmovisión zapoteca, el activismo espiritual y el rasquachismo, su trabajo explora cómo la memoria cultural, la migración y las identidades de género influyen en los cuerpos, la tierra y los rituales. Sol trabaja con imágenes, proyectos comunitarios y actuaciones en vivo, combinando archivos familiares, las costumbres de sus comunidades, materiales encontrados y objetos hechos a mano para investigar los mitos, las leyendas y la delgada línea que separa al mundo humano del no humano.
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Diaz-Peña has presented solo exhibitions at Lawndale Art Center and Houston Community College, and developed the international performance work "Zanate Performance" in Juchitán, Oaxaca, with support from Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Their work has been featured in New American Paintings No. 174, and in 2026 they released the self-published photo chapbook “Bi (breath/aliento)”. Recent recognitions include support from The Idea Fund for the curatorial project "Pesadito", the Edgelands Institute Glitch Lab Fellowship, the Arts and Media award from the Houston Transgender Unity Committee, residencies at Project Row Houses and Lawndale Arts Center, and participation in the 2024 Texas Biennial at Blaffer Art Museum as a member of OpenMFA collective.
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