Ashlyn Diaz is a Visual Artist and Archivist who lives and works in New York, New York. 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.

Diaz 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.

A Florida native born of African descent, Ashlyn Diaz's practice prioritizes lived experiences for people of the African diaspora and other marginalized communities. She uses archived, found, and recycled materials to repair generational trauma and counter histories of erasure. Through multiple disciplines, her work invites new ways of being to challenge negative and limiting belief systems.