MIC DIAZ FINE ART

Los Angeles-based artist, Mic Diaz is an award-winning photographer and visual storyteller. Mic’s passions include photography and acrylic and watercolor painting. While her photographs capture fleeting, passing moments from her travels, her paintings depict a closer look at objects that we use in our daily lives. Mic has a particular interest in the history of California as well as the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, Greece, and Asia.

Some of her accomplishments include winning Seattle Visitor’s Guide's Seattle Through the Lens photo contest, curating a Watercolor Retrospective Show at Berkeley City College, and showing her work at various exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mic enjoys exploring famous and not-so-famous territory, discovering new culinary haunts, and sharing her travel and culinary experiences through her travel journal and various social media channels.

Mic is available for photographic assignments, partnerships and commission worldwide. For inquiries about representation and licensing images contact Mic.

CURRICULUM VITAE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Chance Encounters, Kubo Restaurant, Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles, CA

2012
Mic DBernardo Solo, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA

2011
Mic DBernardo Solo, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
Chance Encounters, Mauve? Office of Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
Chance Encounters, Gallery Avenue 64, Emeryville, CA

2010
Chance Encounters, Gallery Avenue 64, Emeryville, CA
Chance Encounters, Citrus & Spice, San Rafael, CA
Chance Encounters, Gecko Gecko, Berkeley, CA

JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2012
DAC Perspective, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA
(Juror: Matthew Silverberg, Multimedia Arts Instructor, Berkeley City College)

2011
Watercolor Retrospective Show, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA
(Juror: Mark Leavitt, Art Department Instructor, Berkeley City College; Curator: Mic DBernardo)

Works on/of Paper, Pacific Art League Main Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
(Juror: Elizabeth Mitchell, Curton Deedee McMurtry Curator of Prints, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University)

Berkeley City College Digital Arts Club Annual Exhibition, Berkeley City College Jerry Adams Gallery, Berkeley, CA
(Juror: Matthew Silverberg, Multimedia Arts Instructor, Berkeley City College)

2010
24th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, Emeryville, CA
(Jurors: Mina Dresden, Owner, Mina Dresden Gallery and Steve Pon, Gallery Exhibitions Supervisor, SFMoMA Artists Gallery)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
From Soil to Sun, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA

2012
Out to Lunch, Wire + Nail, San Francisco, CA

2011
Mic DBernardo and Zohra Kalinkowitz, City of El Cerrito City Hall, El Cerrito, CA

Unearthed, RAW:Berkeley, Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Berkeley, CA
BCC Digital Arts Club at Art House Gallery, Art House Gallery and Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA

Ritual and Religion: Spectacles of Devotion, Bridgehead Studios, Alameda, CA

2010
Berkeley City College Digital Arts Club Fall Arts Festival, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA
Mic DBernardo and Rebecca Peters: Photographs and Linocuts, Amanda’s, Berkeley, CA
UC Berkeley Summer Art Show, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

PUBLICATIONS

Strings. 2008. Milvia Street, 2011, front cover.
Fall Harvest. 2008. Milvia Street, 2011
Waiting. 2008. Milvia Street, 2011
Laundry #1. 2009. BCC Watercolor Retrospective Show, 2011, p. 24-25.
Inihaw na Baboy. 2010. mycitycuisine.org, 2011
Mechado. 2009. mycitycuisine.org, 2011
Abstract #10. 2010. DAC/2010: The Art of the Digital, 2010, p. 15.
I Heart Cal. 2010. 2009-10 Annual Report of Philanthropy, University of California, Berkeley, 2010, p. 59.
Abstract #10. 2010. 24th Emery Arts, 2010, p. 9.
Berkeley Marina. 2008. Schmap Berkeley Guide, 2010
Berkeley Marina. 2008. Schmap Berkeley Guide for iPhone, 2010
EMP and Space Needle. 2008. Seattle Visitor’s Guide, Spring/Summer 2009, p. 130.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Photographer, Valentine's Day Happy Hour at Stanford Live, Stanford, CA, 2016
Photographer, Cal Tailgate at Big Game, Stanford, CA, 2015
Photographer, Stanford Reunion Homecoming, Stanford, CA, 2014, 2015
Curator, Watercolor Retrospective Show, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA, 2011
Photographer, Eat Real Festival, Oakland, CA, 2010
Photographer, Cal Alumni Association OktoBearfest, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 2010

AWARDS

Semifinalist, Real Life Stumbles Instagram Contest, 2012
Winner, Seattle Through the Lens. Seattle Visitor’s Guide, Seattle, WA, 2009
Students Choice Award, Los Angeles Valley College Festival of Art, Valley Glen, CA, 1993