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Diana-Sofia Estrada is a visual artist/educator born and raised in Houston, Texas. Relational aesthetics, progressive educational pedagogy, cartoons, and non-hierarchical modes of community influence Estrada’s work which encompasses paintings, installations, social practice, video, and animation to question our immediate visual culture and environment. Drawing upon her family's Guatemalan heritage, her current work investigates broken familial narratives and visual/atmospheric conditions. 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.
Estrada has exhibited and screened her work nationally and internationally including Alice Yard Space (Trinidad), Box 13 (Houston, Texas), L.A.C.E. Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA), at Artlab at the Smithsonian Hirschhorn Museum ( Washington D.C.), FairPlay at FairMarket (Miami, Florida), Matucana 100 (Santiago, Chile), Children's Museum of the Arts( New York, NY), Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA), Video Performance In Flux at the Miami Art Society (Miami, FL), and at Wonzimer Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) for the exhibition; A Racket of Banshees, curated by the Association of Hysteric Curators. She had a two-person show with Marta Lidia Umaña-Matta de Wer at San Jacinto College Central Gallery, Pasadena, TX, 2026. Estrada spent 15 years in California and is now based in Houston, TX and is a member of the artist-run gallery Throughline. Selected works available at SEER GALLERY |
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Education
MFA California Institute of the Arts BFA Drawing & Painting, University of North Texas BA in Psychology, University of North Texas Solo or 2-person Exhibitions 2027 Upcoming 2-Person show with Carolina Borja, Throughline Collective, Houston, TX 2026 Una Patoja y una Chapina, Diana-Sofia Estrada with Marta Lidia Umaña-Matta de Wer, San Jacinto College Central Gallery, Pasadena, TX 2025 Night Light 2025*, commissioned by Aurora Picture Show/Buffalo Bayou Partnership, Houston, TX 2020 Canceled due to Covid-19, Southwest Los Angeles College, Inglewood, CA 2017 Neighborhood Watch: Diana-Sofia Estrada, Patricia Valencia, Carribean Fargoza, curated by Vincent Ramos, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA (3 person show) 2015 Mountain Through a Peep Hole, Window space, Box 13 Art Space, Houston, TX 2014 Traveling without doing Harm, Elephant, Los Angles, CA 2010 Chandelier Mosque, Dan Graham Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2008 L.A. Killed My Truck, A402 Gallery, CalArts,Valencia, CA 2007 The Perfect Cup in 3 minutes and 3 seconds, Michael Poppyfield Gallery, Valencia, CA 2006 Warning!, D300 Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA Hue-mas, Buffalo Bayou ArtPark,Buffalo Bayou at Sabine, Fotofest, Houston, TX GDP, Buffalo Bayou Art Park Gallery, Fotofest, Houston, TX 2000 CONNECTIONS: 2N’s , Union Gallery, Denton, TX Selected Group Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances 2026 Upcoming, Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA * 2025 10th Annual FBA Film and Zine Festival, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM* The Space We Make, Throughline Collective, Throughline Gallery, Houston, TX Pixel by Pixel, curated by Diana Rojas, Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX Surveying the Houston Art Scene, UHCL Art Gallery, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Clear Lake, TX Experimental, curated by Emily Dingman, Box 13 Artspace, Houston, TX 2024 A Racket of Banshees, curated by the Association of Hysteric Curators, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA* Video Flux, curated by Tere Garcia, “Performance in Flux”, Miami Art Society, Miami, FL* Interweaving the Archive, curated by Getty Marrow Undergraduate Fellowship Intern Andrea Acuña, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, https://welcometolace.org/lace/weaving-the-archive/ The Big Show 2024, juried by Laura Augusta, PHD, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX 2023 Mentors and Students, GCIC, Brazosports College, Lake Jackson, TX 2022 UnCivil War (an Election Special), curated by Max Presenill, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA West Mich Redux, curated by Russ Pensyl, South Haven Center for the Arts, South Haven, MI 2021 After the Smoke Has Cleared: Constructing Community through Chaos, curated by Vincent Ramos, Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "My Body My Truth", curated by A.H.C, Dog & Pony, Spokane, WA Se(h)er, Seer Gallery, Online 2020 Decision 2020, Seer Gallery, Online Lines of Stitching -an exploration of quilts, Los Angeles Southwest College, Inglewood, CA 2019 Parlor, East Hollywood, CA Print as Protest, curated by Jenene Nagy, Los Angeles Valley College, North Hollywood, CA 2018 Making Lightly: A Collaborative Artist Residency, Atche Art Space, Los Angeles, CA #NEWGLOBALMATRIARCHY, curated by Maya Mackrandilal, Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery, Van Nuys, CA Mirroring Resilience, curated by Edgar Fabián Frías, La Maida Institute, Los Angeles, CA With Liberty and Justice for Some curated by Monica Lindy and Walter Maciel, part of Drawing the Line, Children's Museum of the Arts, New York, NY 2017 Fair Play, curated by Micol Hebron, Fair Market Art Fair, Miami, FL Resilience, AM Gallery, UM Museum, Orange County, CA And Justice for Some, curated by Monica Lundy, Walter Maciel Gallery, Culver City, CA Sanctuary City: With Liberty and Justice for Some, San Francisco Arts Commission, SFAC Main Gallery, San Francisco, CA FAR BAZAAR, Association of Hysteric Curators booth, performance and presentation with Cristy Stiles, Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA FAR BAZAAR, Elephant Art Space, performance booth, Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA 2016 Queue, curated by Brica Wilcox and L.E. Kim, Klowden Mann Gallery, Culver City, CA Coming to the Table, curated by the Association of Hysteric Curators, Angels Gate Cultural Art Center, San Pedro, CA Co-dependent Circus (performance), Eternal Telethon, Human Resources, http://eternaltelethon.com/; Los Angeles, CA By Land and Sea, (En)Gendered (In)Equity thematic program curated by Micol Hebron, Haley Hopkins, and Tam Hunter; April 8th, 2016; L.A.C.E. Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (En)Gendered (In)Equity: The Gallery Tally Poster Project; organized by Micol Hebron, L.A.C.E. Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Earth Air Fire Water, curated by Danielle Eubank, McGroarty Art Center, Tujunga, CA ColorWheels, Caltrans Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2014 A call for gender equity in the arts, organized by Micol Hebron, Foryourart, Los Angeles,CA 2013 Shangrila 2013: Burrito Deluxe, Elephant curated performers, curated by Steven Bankhead and Jesse Benson, Joshua Tree, CA Group Show, Facebook, curated by Chloë Flores, Los Angeles, CA 2012 L.A. Commons/Palms Neighborhood Murals, collaboration with John Trevino and Hamilton High School Students, presentation at Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles, CA 2011 Film Forum, curated by Akosua Adoma Owusu, Artlab at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC Storefront Video, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC The Quotidian World: Video Art, curated by Devon Tsuno, Cypress College Gallery, Cypress,CA L.A. Road Concerts on Sunset, curated by Stephan Van Dyck, Los Angeles, CA Collective Show Los Angeles, Elephant Space, Collective Show, Los Angeles, CA Art Los Angeles Fair Contemporary, Dan Graham Gallery, The Barker Hangar, SantaMonica,CA |
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