Ashlyn Diaz is an interdisciplinary artist and archivist, southern-born by way of St. Petersburg, Florida. Her studio practice is a careful meditation on historical and lived experiences within the African diaspora, examining the ongoing battle for decolonization within contemporary culture. Using craft traditions, she blends her Black American heritage and an environmental consciousness.

Diaz engages archival materials and found objects to mend histories of erasure and exclusion. She experiments with and discovers new ways to bend and shape materials, driven by a genuine curiosity and belief in a redeeming future. Diaz’s research manifests as vibrant, rhythmic, and atmospheric installations crafted from natural and recycled materials to create contemplative interactive experiences. Her creative intersection of various media includes craft, installation, printmaking, and video. 

Diaz earned her BFA in Drawing from the University of Florida in 2016 and was nominated for the 2016 Windgate Fellowship. She was awarded a 2020 summer residency at the Chautauqua School of Art. She studied Studio Art at Hunter College MFA and is the 2023 Hunter College recipient of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Robert Blackburn Printmaking Award. Diaz is the 2024 Marilyn Nance Archive Fellow and the 2025 C. Daniel Dawson Research and Curatorial Fellow.

She lives and works in New York, New York.