Diana-Sofia Estrada

Diana-Sofia Estrada is a Guatemalan American visual artist/educator born in Houston, Texas. She received her BFA in Painting/Drawing and BA in Psychology from the University of North Texas and her MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts. She worked with various arts organizations in Los Angeles such as ArtWorxLA, Theatre of Hearts Youth First, and the Music Center. Estrada has exhibited her work internationally and nationally including Alice Yard Space (Trinidad), Box 13 (Houston, Texas), L..A.C.E. Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA),  Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile, at Artlab at the Smithsonian Hirschhorn Museum in Washington D.C., FairPlay at FairMarket (Miami, Florida), at Sam Francis Gallery in Santa Monica, CA; and in Uncivil-War at the Torrance Art Museum.  She has recently moved back to Houston, Texas from California where she lived and worked for the past fifteen years.

Artist Statement

Relational aesthetics, progressive educational pedagogy, cartoons, and non-hierarchical modes of community influence Estrada’s work. Her work encompasses paintings, installations, social practice, and animation to question our immediate visual culture. Looking to ideas of visibility and subjectivity to interpret everyday events, Estrada questions these through various visuals, often using text as a prompt: an English and Spanish idiom-focused weather animation, a series of watercolor paintings depicting flooded government buildings and national monuments; contemplating the ideal space to be dreaming when real-estate is an issue in the form of an online media persona, and visual texts that generate dialogues. 

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