Diego Medina
Diego Medina was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico and is a member of the Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribe. Diego currently serves as Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for his tribe and has a ceremonial role. As an artist, Diego’s work illustrates intricate, magical metaphors that combine cultural knowledge and ancestral wisdom with playful and passionate fantasy imagery. Diego also creates cartographical and poetic illustrations that bring together ecological and cosmological knowledge within the process of prayer. For Diego, prayer is the finest art because it informs our conscious will, our expressions of love, connects us with sacred ancestral wisdom, and strengthens our spiritual kinship. In addition to creating visual art, Diego is a published poet and a cultural enthusiast who has a deep passion for archival research, borderlands Indigenous history, and Pueblo traditional and esoteric knowledge.
