About Jamie Diaz

Jamie Diaz is a Mexican-American trans woman and artist residing in Gatesville, Texas. Born in the Midwest in the late 1950s, Jamie grew up in Houston and started drawing and painting at the age of 15.

Jamie creates primarily from her imagination and describes experiencing new ideas like an endless stream of imagery in her mind. Though the subject matter varies widely, Jamie’s work shares a recognizable, unique style. Motifs woven throughout represent themes such as love, queerness, and human suffering. Each piece holds many of the complexities and emotions present in both the queer experience and human condition: good and evil, pleasure and pain, pride and persecution.

Jamie welcomes opportunities to support the LGBTQ+ community through her art and her comix and illustrations have been featured in publications including: Prison Health News, A Queer Prisoners Anthology I-V (A.B.O. Comix), How to Wait (Sage Clemmons, 2019), and Passage & Place (Deviant Type Press, 2014).

Jamie’s debut solo show, “Even Flowers Bleed,” took place fall 2022 at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, NYC. Jamie’s life and art is also the subject of a short documentary, “Love, Jamie,” which premiered at Outfest LA 2023.