Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a multidisciplinary artist who uses mixed media collage, immersive installation, and video to juxtapose disparate cultural references and to explore the connections between personal experience and...
Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a multidisciplinary artist who uses mixed media collage, immersive installation, and video to juxtapose disparate cultural references and to explore the connections between personal experience and larger social and political structures. Born and raised in Chicago to parents from Yemen, Diaz is interested in complicated narratives of third-culture identity and their precarious invisibility/hyper-visibility.
One Way or Another, a series of collage and mixed media works on paper, was inspired by the three months she spent in Yemen at age 15. Her fragmented memories are reconstructed with imagery collected from magazines, books, personal archives, and online research. The experience of traveling to rural Yemen from Chicago was a surreal contrast of the worlds she was struggling to make sense of, especially when she learned she was to be married off, a fate she evaded.
Diaz is a recipient of the Harpo Visual Artists Grant and the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship and has works included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The University of California Los Angeles, and the Arab American National Museum. She lives and works in Los Angeles.