“Meet the Artist” with Luis Manuel Diaz

• Thursday, June 4, 2026
• Doors at 5:30pm. Artist talk at 6pm.
• 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY
• RSVP

On Thursday, June 4, we welcome Luis Manuel Diaz to 'Meet the Artist' night at CPW. Diaz will discuss Canta y No Llores (Sing and Don't Cry), his decade-long ongoing body of work that draws from personal and familial histories to examine the post migration sensorium. Made between rural Michoacán, Mexico, and the suburbs of New York, the talk will explore photography as a tool to uncover and reimagine histories, weaving place, memory, and belonging. Diaz will discuss his use of the view camera, the role of family narratives within his practice, and the ways landscapes and domestic spaces become living archives.

Join us on select Thursday evenings at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. 'Meet the Artist' allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW's gallery at 25 Dederick Street in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served.

'Meet the Artist' is made possible by generous grants from the Arnold & Augusta Newman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Luis Manuel Diaz is a Mexican-born visual artist working with photography. Drawing from personal history as an entry point, his work traces the internal and external consequences of migration. With a view camera, he examines the construction of self, space, and history to uncover the unseen infrastructures that shape both body and land. Working between rural Michoacán, Mexico, and the suburbs of New York, his practice considers how landscapes and domestic interiors function as living archives of memory, labor, and belonging.

Diaz is a participating artist in CPW's Upstate Photography Biennial. He holds an MFA in Photography from Yale School of Art, where he was awarded the Dean's Prize and the Alice Kimball English Travel Grant, and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. He is a recipient of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography, Magnum Foundation U. S. Dispatches Grant, and the En Foco Photography Fellowship.

His work has been exhibited at Webber Gallery (Los Angeles), Gladstone Gallery (New York), Blue Sky Gallery, Aperture Foundation, and Bronx Art Space, among others. His photographs have been commissioned by WIRED, The New York Times, The Nation, The New Yorker, California Sunday Magazine, and The Atlantic, and published in VICE's 2024 Photography Issue, BOOOOOOOM, i-D, Musée, Foam, and MATTE Magazine.

Diaz currently lives and works between New York and Connecticut.

Images © Luis Manuel Diaz