Robert Ford, Cecilia “CC” Hunt, Trent Adkins (co-founder of Thing magazine with Ford), and Diana Solís after a portrait session at Solís’s apartment and photo studio, above the Swan Club on North Clark Street, 1981.
Diana Solís (b. 1956, Mexico) is a Chicago-based visual artist, photographer, and educator who has documented queer activism and Latinx daily life for almost five decades. They studied studio and experimental photography and worked as a photojournalist for twenty-five years, occasionally halted by recurring breast cancer.
Solís has photographed poets including Sandra Cisneros, many consecutive years of Chicago and Mexico Pride marches, IV Encuentro Feminista de América Latina y el Caribe, early years at Latino Youth, marches and demonstrations, Chicago women’s rugby and women’s marathons, women’s bars, feminist gatherings, Chicano theater, and their neighborhood of Pilsen.
They have been a teaching artist, painter, illustrator, and photographer for over forty years and currently reside in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. Solís is a 2023–24 recipient of the US Latinx Art Forum (USLAF) Latinx Artist Fellowship.
In August 2023, Co-Prosperity presented Contigo, Diana Solís, an exhibition of artists co-curated by Nicole Marroquin and Deanna Ledezma. Visit coprosperity.org/chicago/contigo for details.
