Diego Narvaez was born in Mexico City and lives and works in Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Through his work, Diego reflects on contemporary landscape while creating visual metaphors of how we, as society, construct reality through sight and how this affects our relationship with the environment. Using painting as the main media, Diego constantly challenges the ways we define urban and natural spaces.
Narvaez has presented solo exhibitions in important venues in Mexico, such as Anahuacalli-Diego Rivera Museum and the Cultural Centre of Contemporary Mexico. Collectively, he has participated in exhibitions in USA, Argentina, Spain, Canada and Mexico. He obtained the first prize in Mexico’s Landscape Painting Biennial Luis Nishizawa in 2017. Recently, one of his paintings participated at the XIX Tamayo Painting Biennial, the most important painting award in Mexico. Awarded by the Mexican Ministry of Culture (FONCA), the National Creators Program provides artists who are outstanding in their field with monthly stipends for three years. This grant has supported the development of his present painting series Counterpoint Place. He has participated in art residencies in Antarctica (2012) and Iceland (2014); both experiences have molded Diego´s creative process and the way he understands landscapes.
He is now steadily building his art career in Canada with two awards from the Sooke Fine Arts Show and his solo exhibition Behind Us (2020) at Fortune Gallery in Victoria. He has participated in several projects, including collaborations with scientists through Ocean Networks Canada. Narvaez´s work is represented by Abbozzo Gallery, in Toronto.