Antonio Diaz

Born in Granada and based in New York City, Antonio Diaz is a ceramic artist whose work explores form, imperfection, and transformation. His lifelong fascination with sculpture began at a young age, rooted in an early sensitivity to shape and texture.

After a 40-year career as a hairstylist — itself a form of sculptural practice — Diaz returned to his first passion: working with clay. Each ceramic piece is a collaboration between artist and material, embracing unpredictability and honoring the dialogue between control and surrender.

His process celebrates imperfection as beauty. What begins with the intention to create something “perfect” inevitably leads somewhere unexpected — resulting in works that are layered, tactile, and deeply personal. Each sculpture carries the memory of its making: fingerprints, hand-built marks, and the shifting will of the clay itself.

Diaz’s ceramics are living objects — shaped by the artist, yet never fully contained by him. Every finished work invites new relationships between artist, material, and viewer, transforming over time into something uniquely its own.