Karla Diaz | |
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| Born | Los Angeles |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Master of Fine Arts |
| Alma mater | California Institute of the Arts |
| Notable work | Prison Gourmet |
| Spouse | Mario Ybarra Jr. |
Karla Diaz is an American artist who collects recipes from prison inmates and recreates them in performance using only ingredients and utensils available to those incarcerated. Her multi-media participatory performance piece Prison Gourmet comments on system-impacted communities and people, the politics of food and questions about institutional power. She has been exhibited in Spain, the UK and at multiple museums in the US. She teaches at California State University Long Beach. She and her husband cofounded the artists' collective Slanguage.