Sala Diaz

04/24/2025

UP NEXT | Join us for the opening of Calvin Pressley's solo exhibition, "Only People Know Me," on Saturday, May 3, 2025, from 12–3pm. The show brings together a selection of paintings and drawings that chart the evolution of an artist who, despite the feeling of diminished productivity, remains fiercely committed to reinvention.

“In recent years I’ve been haunted by my own past work,” says Pressley. “This exhibition isn’t about nostalgia—it’s about facing the echoes of what I’ve made and a step into something new.”

The opening is free and open to all!

03/22/2025

𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗚𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗬, 𝟭𝟭𝗮𝗺–𝟮𝗽𝗺 | Join us today for gallery hours to see our current exhibition, "Bitter/Sweet Longing." This exhibition brings together five emerging artists working across a variety of materials. The work in this show highlight how memory, media, and culture shape our collective perception of time.

03/07/2025

Big thank you to everyone that made it out to the opening of our current exhibition, "Bitter/Sweet Longing"! If you didn't make it to the opening, this show will be up all month for Contemporary Art Month. Schedule your visit here: https://calendly.com/saladiaz/bittersweetgalleryvisit?month=2025-03

02/28/2025

𝓜𝓮𝓮𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓐𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓼𝓽 | Bygoe Zubiate is a multidisciplinary artist born and residing in San Antonio, Texas. Her body of work spans across different mediums including oil painting, fiber art, mixed media sculpture, collage and bookbinding. Zubiate likes to experiment with mixing these mediums and thinks critically about how the medium of a piece might interact with the artwork’s concept. Bygoe’s work explores themes of loss, evolution, sexuality, nature and identity. Her art takes inspiration from anti-imperialist ideologies, science fiction, sexuality in pop culture and personal experiences with grief. Zubiate admires artists such as Marnie Webber, Alice Neel, Sister Mary Corita Kent and Mel Casas.

Zubiate has shown in galleries around San Antonio such as 1906 Gallery, Neidorff Art Gallery, Slab Cinema Arthouse, and the Homesick Art Collective. Bygoe graduated from Trinity University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2022 and is also an alumnus of the SAY Si visual arts program.

Bygoe's artwork will be on view as part of "Bitter/Sweet Longing" opening tonight, Friday, February 28, from 6–9pm.

02/27/2025

𝓜𝓮𝓮𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓐𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓼𝓽 | Cecilia Sierra is a visual artist from Brownsville, Texas, she received her bachelor's in Studio Art with a minor in marketing from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Sierra explores various themes related to South Texas ecology and nostalgia from growing up in a border community. She expresses these themes through the mediums of relief printmaking, cyanotype, and embroideries combined with found objects.

Through Sierra's experience of living in the Rio Grande Valley, she’s learned to appreciate and acknowledge the abundance of resources available to her. Such as the nature of the area serving as a unique migrant path through land and water for birds, insects, animals, etc. Sierra has continued to explore various characteristics of her community based on generational trauma, migration, and dynamics

Cecilia's artwork will be on view as part of "Bitter/Sweet Longing" opening this Friday, February 28, from 6–9pm.

02/26/2025

𝓜𝓮𝓮𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓐𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓼𝓽 | Magaly Cantú is an interdisciplinary artist based in the DFW metroplex. She works between traditional printmaking, painting, and expanded ceramic practices. Through the translation of familial relationships, personal memories, photographs, and daydreams. Magaly dissects experiences of girlhood as a Latina and the impacts of navigating in-between tradition and modernization.

Magaly has shown work at Arts Fort Worth, 500X Gallery, the University of West Virginia, and the K Space Contemporary. She has recently earned her M.F. A specializing in printmaking, at the University of North Texas. Currently, she is working as an educator in higher education.

Magaly's artwork will be on view as part of "Bitter/Sweet Longing" opening this Friday, February 28, from 6–9pm.

02/26/2025

𝑀𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓈𝓉 | Ella Brenzel is a Panamanian-American visual artist based in San Antonio, Texas. Ella is an interdisciplinary artist, working primarily in painting and textile art. She explores the tactility of fiber, specifically in domestic spaces. Ella intertwines ideas of both the preservation of memory and the evidence of memory in her work. Ella questions how memory plays into her identity and how memory acts as pre existent truth. Ella is on track to complete her BFA, spending the 2 previous years in Chicago, Illinois.

Ella's artwork will be on view as part of "Bitter/Sweet Longing" opening this Friday, February 28, from 6–9pm.

02/24/2025

Meet the Artist | Cheyenne Amaya is a visual artist based in San Antonio, Texas. Her work consists largely of painting, ceramic, and multimedia sculpture that explores mental health and spirituality through animal and abstract forms. She graduated with a BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a concentration in ceramics and is a current resident artist at Thrown Studio.

Amaya's artwork will be on view as part of "Bitter/Sweet Longing" opening this Friday, February 28, from 6–9pm.

12/22/2024

We're opening the gallery one last time for our current exhibition, "Are We Just Phantoms," today from 3pm–7pm! You'll also have the chance to take home a token from the exhibition: a plant from Sarah Fox's installation!

Gallery hours are free and open to everyone and do not require an appointment!

12/11/2024

Sala Diaz is excited to announce its selection as one of 90 arts and culture organizations to receive a 2024 Core Grant from The Ruth Foundation for the Arts!!! Congratulations to our fellow grantees!

Ethel Shipton, Director of Sala Diaz, shared, "The Ruth Foundation has played a key role in supporting Sala Diaz's growth and our ongoing commitment to serving the community. This generous grant will help us further our mission as we approach our 30th anniversary as a long-standing artist-run space and residency program."

12/06/2024

Hi, y'all! Due to the weather on Saturday, we're rescheduling our Phantoms After Dark event to Wednesday, December 11, 6–8pm!! We know. We're bummed too! But we don't want you dealing with mud or rain and hope you can make it on Wednesday. Thank you for understanding!!!

Phantoms After Dark: An Evening of Performance & Film
***New Date***Wednesday, December 11, 6–8pm

11/17/2024

Megan Solis’s installation, Cockroaches Crawl, centers on her recurring character Glory West, a woman murdered by her husband Dale. The gallery space is transformed into a haunting environment built around Glory’s absent body, featuring ritualized sculptures, sound, and sweet incense that draw viewers into an unsettling experience.

‼️ Join us for gallery hours today, November 17, from 12–4pm!

10/28/2024

We are happy to announce our gallery hours for the upcoming month! The first one is THIS EVENING. Gallery hours are free and open to everyone.

Monday, October 28, 5–9pm
Sunday, November 3, 12–4pm
Saturday, November 9, 12:30–4:30pm
Sunday, November 17, 12–4pm
Saturday, November 23, 11am–3pm

10/25/2024

HAPPENING NOW | Join us for the opening of “Are We Just Phantoms?” tonight from 6–9!

The three installations in this exhibition weave a compelling narrative about power, identity, and the specters that haunt our collective consciousness. From Solis’s vengeful spirit and Fox’s empowering reclamation of feminine mythology to Jonesy’s examination of masculine vulnerability, each artist transforms Sala Diaz into a space where the familiar becomes uncanny. Through their distinct approaches to horror—whether supernatural, psychological, or social—they invite viewers to confront the phantoms that lurk within domestic spaces, cultural traditions, and gendered expectations. The result is an exhibition that doesn’t merely frighten, but provokes deeper contemplation about the monsters we create, the powers we fear, and the identities we inhabit.

10/25/2024

Thank you for featuring our upcoming exhibition, “Are We Just Phantoms?” in this week’s Top 5 Art Events in Texas! This exhibition features Sarah Fox, Jonesy, and Megan Solis, and opens to the public TONIGHT, Friday, October 25, from 6–9pm. See you then!

10/24/2024

Thank you Glasstire for featuring our upcoming exhibition, "Are We Just Phantoms?" in this week's Top 5 Art Events in Texas!

This exhibition features Sarah Fox, Jonesy, and Megan Solis, and opens to the public tomorrow, Friday, October 25, from 6–9pm. See you then!

Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas, including exhibitions in Houston, Austin, College Station, and beyond.