Diana Calderón, photo Efrain Robles 2018, PAOS Guadalajara
Diana Calderón, photo Karina Espinoza 2020
Calderón is a Mexican-born interdisciplinary artist, cultural leader, and educator raised in the borderlands of El Paso, Texas. In 2008 she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Art from Arizona State University. Her work includes sculptural installations, performance art, illustration, artist books, and has been exhibited work at ASU Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, PAOS Guadalajara, also known as the Museo Taller Jose Clemente Orozco. Awards include City of Phoenix Arts and Culture Artist 2 Work Grant, Career Advancement Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Opportunity Grant, MOCA Tucson’s Night Bloom Grant, The New Arizona Prize: Water Public Art Award.
Calderón currently leads impactful workshops, mentors emerging professionals, maintains an active art practice throughout the Southwest, is a former school teacher and administrator, a certified Grief Educator and alum of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Leadership Institute. She co-founded Asterix Gallery + Studio born at The Falstaff in El Paso, Texas - an exploratory now satellite space - creating opportunities for underrepresented artists in the Southwest.
MFA Candidate 2028 at The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, at Arizona State University. Visit Diana at the Grant Street Studios, Phoenix AZ.
“My work has explored personal history, identity, and generational memory - across borders.“
Creative Mornings Phoenix Talk January 2020 “Uproot” by Diana Calderon
Artist Studio Tour 2020, presented by the ASU Art Museum. Meet Diana Calderon at her home studio. In this video, Diana talks to us about random fun facts, and shares some of her projects with us.