Diego Narvaez

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 and the Cultural Centre of Contemporary Mexico. Collectively, he has participated in exhibitions in USA, Argentina, Canada and Mexico.

He obtained the first prize in Mexico’s Landscape Painting Biennial Luis Nishizawa in 2017.

He is now steadily building his art career in BC with two awards from the Sooke Fine Arts Show and his solo exhibition Behind Us (2020) at Fortune Gallery in Victoria.

Find a place (Traces - 10/2021)

I found a place in the forest and it was already waiting for me. Now I visit it and offer simple things but charged with meaning.

I try to honor the forest and discover who I am.

Day by day, I take off layers of who I think I am, so much weight that I carry on me. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I wait patiently and enjoy being there.

It’s as if I went to visit a friend, the most open and magical friend I have ever had.

And you, have you been to that place in nature that for some reason caught your attention?