Ryan Diaz

Ryan Diaz is a queer Filipino designer, writer, dancer, activist, and Celine Dion fanatic from Seattle, Washington. He studied creative writing while earning his BFA in visual communications design from the University of Washington. With his background in queer artist collectives, publishing, survivor-focused anti-violence training, and art direction in the fashion industry, his work as an MFA candidate at RISD explores space-making as opportunity for emotional transformation through a personal cosmology of the profane, the sacred, and the wild party in between. He hopes to continue examining performance through vulgarity, schmaltz, humor, despair, and joy.