Oscar Diaz (they/them) is a trans non-binary artist, cultural producer, and community organizer from the borderlands of Tijuana, MX and San Diego, CA. 

Their work documents queer and trans communities as they experience joy and embody resistance, detailing the divine gestures and unholy rituals that inform their expansive ways of being.  

Through documentary photography, portraiture, video, poetry, and mixed media printmaking, Diaz illuminates a constellation of individuals whose cultural practices, subversive politics, and cosmic worldmaking nourish their present landscapes and autonomous futures.

Diaz’s practice traces the ways queer and trans people build insurgent kinship, create sanctuary, and challenge the colonial notion of "contra natura"—the idea that certain desires, bodies, and ways of being exist in opposition to divine or natural order.

Their work spans from New York City, Puerto Rico, Bogota, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Brazil, conspiring with and confiding in the deviant pleasures, intimate ecologies, and abundant interventions that make our collective liberation not just imaginable, but inevitable.

They co-founded TRANSMISSION, NYC’s first trans music festival, alongside their mother Cecilia Gentili, and currently serve as the executive producer to honor her legacy and continue her life’s work: ensuring our trans community is thriving, joyful, resourced, and above all, loving and supporting each other.

They were the 2024 visual art fellow and an alumni of Queer|Art ‘s mentorship program and have been in residence with BOFFO, as well as the Lunder Institute for American Art.