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Sol Diaz-Peña is a Cuban-Mexican-American interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Houston, Texas. Working across photography, painting, social practice, and performance, their practice centers on themes of planetary kinship, spirit activism, mythology, and rematriation. Drawing from ancestral Zapotec cosmology and Rasquachismo, Diaz-Peña integrates familial archives, community artifacts, and handmade objects to explore how cultural memory, migration, and gender-variant lineages inform bodies, land, and ritual, cultivating a space of liminality between human and nonhuman worlds.
Sol Diaz-Peña es artista interdisciplinar y curador de origen cubano-mexicano-estadounidense de Houston, Texas. Su práctica abarca la fotografía, la pintura, la práctica social y el performance, centrándose en temas como el parentesco planetario, el activismo espiritual, la mitología y la rematriación. Inspirándose en la cosmología ancestral zapoteca y el Rasquachismo, Diaz-Peña integra archivos familiares, artefactos comunitarios y objetos elaborados a mano para explorar cómo la memoria cultural, la migración y los linajes de género diverso informan a los cuerpos, la tierra y el ritual, cultivando así un espacio de liminalidad entre los mundos humanos y no humanos.
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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, and residencies at Project Row Houses and Lawndale Arts Center. They are a member of OpenMFA and Sahara Dust Season Artist Collectives.
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