José Carlos Diaz

José Carlos Diaz is the Seattle Art Museum's Susan Brotman Deputy Director. Previously he was Chief Curator at The Andy Warhol Museum. Diaz has organized the first museum solo exhibition of Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri at The Warhol. He was the Curator of Exhibitions at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach where he curated new artist commissions by Athi-Patra Ruga, Sylvie Fleury and the travelling exhibition GOLD. Prior to joining the Bass he worked at Tate Liverpool and the Liverpool Biennal. Diaz received an M.A. in Cultural History from the University of Liverpool and a B.A. in Art History from San Francisco State University. In 2003 Diaz tenured as a curatorial intern at The Rubell Family Collection and launched a nomadic curatorial project called Worm-Hole Laboratory.