Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Christhian Diaz

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013

Christhian Diaz makes performance work with an emphasis on movement and a particular interest in the paths set out by post-modern dance. His work investigates histories of family, labor, immigration, and class. He has initiated various collaborative movement/dance projects, as well as solo dance and video works.

Studios

Nef

Christhian Diaz worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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