Location: San Francisco, CA
Medium: Sculpture, installation, stained glass, print
Website: andydiazhope.com
Andy Diaz Hope was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area in a multigenerational household of scientists — his grandmother was a chemist, his grandfather a physicist and radar researcher who later joined the Houston Space Center Ground Control design team, his mother a math and art major who became a painter. He received a BS and MS in Engineering from Stanford University’s joint program in Design — a collaborative program between the Engineering and Art departments. After graduate school he worked as a product designer at Apple and Microsoft, founded a furniture company, and by the late 1990s had transitioned fully into conceptual art. In 1998 he and his wife and fellow artist Laurel Roth Hope, along with another couple, bought three Mission District Edwardian flats with a carriage house, where they continue to live and work, and which he has developed over the years into affordable artist studios. He has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery since 2005. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA New York and the International Contemporary Art Foundation in Louisville, KY.
Diaz Hope creates sculptures, installations, and works on paper that seek to offer alternative viewpoints to mainstream media, foster dialogue, and encourage pluralism and critical thought. His practice draws on his engineering background — intricate patterns, light systems, custom electronics, 3D printing — and combines them with traditional craft techniques including stained glass, silkscreen, and collage. His subjects encompass mortality, political violence, healthcare, terrorism, and more recently the aesthetics and ethics of speculative fiction and artificial intelligence. His most recent body of work, Yesterday’s Tomorrows, uses the visual language of historic science fiction to imagine simultaneously utopian and dystopian futures, combining archival imagery with deep space photography and AI image generation to probe collective responsibility for technological change. He works both independently and in sustained collaboration with Laurel Roth Hope, with whom he completed a year-long de Young Museum fellowship (2012–13) and produced The Woulds (2017), an immersive forest installation for the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
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