Diego Juarez is a visual artist, poet, and curator from San Pedro, CA, currently working in Philadelphia. He received his MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. His work uses the language of landscape painting, incorporating poetics, abstraction, and material transformation to ask how existing identities and narratives can be reconstructed. His work has been exhibited across the United States.