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Carlos Diaz lives in Brighton, MI. He is currently a Professor Emeritus and former chairman of the Photography Department (1995-2000) at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI where he taught for 37 years.

Diaz received his BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 1980 and his MFA from the University of Michigan, Stamps School of Art and Design in 1983. Diaz is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation, NEA Arts Midwest, The Polaroid Corporation, the Michigan Council for the Arts, the Kresge Foundation and a 2024 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

Since the summer of 2017 and with the support of a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship, Diaz has focused his efforts on the project, History, Memory, Myth; The Confederate Monument in the American South. With this project, Diaz examines how Race is foundational and intertwined with history, memory, myth and place. This eight-year long project represents an evolution of Diaz's long-term interest in representing the American landscape as a means of examining the perpetually shifting historical, cultural, and political facts and fictions of the United States.

Diaz's work resides in numerous collections public and private including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,The Ross Museum, The Museum of the City of New York, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.