Sol Diaz-Peña

Sol Diaz-Peña is a Cuban-Mexican-American, transdisciplinary artist, educator, and organizer. Their practice explores identity, cultural memory, and collective storytelling at the intersection of migration, queerness, and the power of returning to nature. Working across painting, photography, and public practice, they draw from Zapotec Indigenous traditions, gender-variant lineages, and family archives to explore movement across territories as a living bond with the land and inherited histories. As a whole, their work attends to the fluid, negotiated nature of self-determined identity.

Diaz-Peña has exhibited at Lawndale Art Center, Blaffer Art Museum, and Project Row Houses, with work featured in New American Paintings No. 174. They have held residencies at Lawndale Art Center, Project Row Houses, and the Artists’ Literacy Institute (NY), and received the 2024 Arts and Media Award from the Houston Transgender Unity Committee.