Chamile Diaz is an Arizona-based contemporary oil painter and illustrator who creates art focusing on cultivating resilience through joy, connection, and community. She obtained her BS in Biomedical Sciences from Arizona State University with minors in Studio Art and Sustainability. Pulling from her multidisciplinary background, Diaz uses her paintings to investigate the intersections between her neighbors, the environment, and her own cultural identity.

In her illustrative work, Diaz created digital artworks and zines collaborating with URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity to highlight the reproductive health narratives of marginalized communities throughout the Southern United States. Additionally, for her undergraduate thesis entitled ‘Sanando Juntos,’ Diaz developed designs for a digital storytelling curriculum built to teach Latina adolescents how to engage with storytelling for emotional well-being.

Her most recent artworks contemplate her first visit to the Philippines in over 15 years, visualizing grief of time lost while simultaneously connecting with joyful memory of the land. Diaz pulls from visual motifs found in Filipino piña cloth and Abel Iloko (Ilocano cotton textiles), weaving together her ancestry with her current reality.

contact: chamilediaz@gmail.com