Diana Guerra is a Peruvian American lens-based artist and educator currently based in New York. Her work revolves around themes of memory, belonging, and identity (re)construction, from the perspective of a woman of color within the Latine diaspora in New York City. Guerra holds an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from the City College of New York and a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Guerra’s early training in photography was at Parsons School of Design as part of the MFA Photography program. Guerra is a 2024 AIM Bronx Museum Fellow and 2022 En Foco Photography Fellow. Her work has been featured at The Museum of the City of New York, Photoville, Mana Contemporary, The School of Visual Arts, among others. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at The City College of New York.
EDUCATION
2020 MFA, Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice, The City College of New York, CUNY, New York, NY
2018 Graduate Program, Photography, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2011 BS with Distinction, Sociology, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru
2011 Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (Sociology - Exchange Semester)
GRANTS/AWARDS
2023 AIM Fellowship, The Bronx Museum, New York, NY
2022 En Foco Photography Fellowship, En Foco Inc, New York, NY
2020 Connor Merit Award, First-place MFA winner, The City College of New York, New York, NY
2019 Connor Tuition Fellowship, The City College of New York, New York, NY
2018 Connor Tuition Fellowship, The City College of New York, New York, NY
2017 Dean’s Merit Scholarship, The New School, New York, NY
2017 Parsons Graduate Student Research Fund, The New School, New York, NY
2012 Support Program for the Development of a Licentiate Thesis, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru
EXHIBITIONS
2026 (Forthcoming) Group Exhibition, The Seventh AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum, New York, NY
2024 Group Exhibition, Poetics of Counter-Archives, online exhibition, Der Greif, Berlin, Germany
(curated by Nadine Henrich & William Camargo)
2023 Group Exhibition, New York Now: Home – A Photo Triennial, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
(curated by Thea Quiray Tagle and Sean Corcoran)
2022 Three-person exhibition, Was I Dreaming?, CP Projects Space, SVA Curatorial Practice, New York, NY
(curated by Diana Colón)
Group Exhibition, REVEAL, En Foco Fellowship exhibition, Bronx Kreate Hub, New York, NY
(curated by Marisol Diaz-Gordon)
2021 Group Exhibition, Spackle, 2W Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Julian Johnson)
Group Exhibition, Is It A Good Time?, Mana Contemporary, NJ (curated by Nicky Ni and Maryam Faridani)
Group Exhibition, Winter 2021 Show, online exhibition, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA
Group Exhibition, Insurrection, Saint Sol Art Collective, Atlanta, GA
Group Exhibition, La Frontera: A New Latinx Lexicon, online exhibition, Humble Arts Foundation, NY
2020 Solo Exhibition, To Come Back Is To Stay, CCNY MFA Thesis Exhibition
Group Exhibition, Primal Sight, online exhibition, In the In-Between. Journal of New and New Media Photography
2019 Group Exhibition, 100% Fun, online exhibition, Humble Arts Foundation, NY (curated by Jon Feinstein).
Group Exhibition, Side Affects, DIAP MFA studio, Shepard Hall – The City College of New York, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Trans-Presence @CUNY, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY
Two-person Exhibition, AF Salon: Women’s Empowerment, JCC Harlem, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, CCNY Women Make Art, Cohen Library Archives gallery, The City College of New York, NY
2018 Group Exhibition, DIAP MFA Annual Show, Compton Goethals gallery, The City College of New York, NY
Group Exhibition, The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image, The Artists Forum, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Text Me When You’re Home, Skybridge Art & Sound Space, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School,
New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Staged, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2017 Group Exhibition, Apparatus of Discomfort, Photoville NYC, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Jeanine Oleson)
Solo Exhibition, Gxndxr, Espacio Cavallero, Buenos Aires, Argentina (supported by the Peruvian Embassy in Buenos Aires, [catalogue])
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Photo book Fleeting Under Light, Seaton Street Press, New York, NY
2022 Publication Nueva Luz, En Foco Inc, curated by Marisol Diaz-Gordon, New York, NY
2021 Issue No.6 Lionheart, Pearl Press, curated by Delilah Twersky.
Photo book Primal Sight, Gnomic Book, curated by Efrem Zeloney-Mindell, New York, NY
Zine Housefire, Cumulus Photo, curated by Nick Drain.
2019 Photo book On Death, Kris Graves Projects & Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
2018 Issue Spring 2018: Community, ISO Magazine, New York University, New York, NY
2017 Photo book Imitation of Life, Loosenart, Rome, Italy
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022-24 Adjunct Professor, The City College of New York, NY
2021 Arts Specialist, Harlem Children’s Zone, New York, NY (Photography)
2019 Assistant Instructor, The City College of New York, New York, NY (Intro to Photography, Professor Patterson Beckwith,
Spring 2019)
2012–2013 Teaching Assistant, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru (Methodology for Research II)
ARTIST TALKS
2023 The Museum of the City of New York, ‘Photography as Activism: Collaborative photography with Latine immigrant communities’,
New York, NY. July 18.
2022 The City College of New York – CUNY, New York, NY. Feb 15.
2020 Miami International University of Art and Design. Miami, FL, April 28.
Portland State University - School of Art and Design. Portland, OR. June 1.
2019 The City College of New York – CUNY, New York, NY. September 19.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 Que Prosiga (That It May Go On), Chashama Upper East Side gallery, Chashama, New York, NY
2021 Grocery Story and Dark Margins by Emily Malave and Gabrielle Blumenthal, La Casa Verde, Brooklyn, NY
2020 The Other Utopias, Cohen Library Archives gallery, The City College of New York, New York, NY
WEBSITE PUBLICATIONS
Uzomah Ugwu, “A Splendid Conversation with Diana Guerra”, Arte Realizzata, access date: November 30, 2022. https://www.arterealizzata.com/interviews/a-splendid-conversation-with-diana-guerra
Jon Feinstein, “Photographing Family, Union and the Unsettled Ghosts of Culture”, Humble Arts Foundation, access date: November 15, 2021. http://hafny.org/blog/2021/7/photographing-family-union-and-the-unsettled-ghosts-of-culture
Tabor Hollingsworth, “City College MFA Students Explore Identity in Spring Exhibition, CCNY Libraries, access date: October 5, 2020. https://library.ccny.cuny.edu/blog/CCNYMFAs-Spring-Exhibition