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About
Buenos Aires-born, Miami-based Diego Alejandro Waisman is a visual artist that explores themes of social and economic displacement, exile, family, identity, and origins.
Much of his work revolves around the post-memories of his family’s diaspora and his journey as an immigrant to the United States.
He has received the Berkowitz Arts Foundation Scholarship, the Florida International University Visual Arts Scholarship as well as the Faena Curatorial Scholarship. He is the recipients of the 2022 Green Space grant, and an awardee of the 30th Emerald Coast National organized by the Northwestern Florida State College.
In 2024 he presented his work at Photoalicante, Spain and became finalist of the Pathways show organized by the UCF and Rollins Galleries. Some of his work can be found in the permanent collection of the Phillip and Patricia Frost Art Museum, as well as the Met Library, and other private collections.
He holds a degree in Computer Animation and Multimedia from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, a Studio Art degree from the University of Miami, and an MFA from Florida International University.
In the Press
- Southern Spaces | Lee Irby reviews Diego Alejandro Waisman’s Sunset Colonies: A Visual Elegy to South Florida’s Mobile Home Communities
- NPR – WLRN | ‘We lie to ourselves about progress’: Exhibit laments the loss of South Florida’s trailer parks
- NPR – WLRN | New exhibit memorializes South Florida’s disappearing mobile home communities
- Miami New Times | Diego Waisman’s Sunset Colonies Documents Miami’s Endangered Mobile Home Communities
- Burnaway | Diego Alejandro Waisman: Sunset Colonies at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami
- PBS | ART Loft
- PBS – Your South Florida | Senior Housing Crisis
- UFS | Florida Book Awards
- Orlando Weekly | ‘Pathways’ shows work by Florida’s future art stars in two local galleries at once
- University of Miami | For I Shall Already Have Forgotten You