Diego Salazar
Artist
Diego Salazar is an artist, architect, and creative founder based between New York City and Oaxaca, Mexico. Born in Mexico City and raised in Cancún, his artistic interests emerged early; encouraged by his grandmother, he began drawing as a child and developed his voice through formal education and independent practice.
After moving to the United States in 2005, Diego pursued the arts throughout high school and exhibited work in Bridgehampton, New York as a teenager. He studied architecture at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, graduating in 2016, where he developed a multidisciplinary approach that continues to inform his work across art, design, and architecture.
Professionally, Diego has worked with leading design studios including Roman & Williams, Robert Couturier, Inc., and Paik Architecture LLC. His work spans architecture, interiors, and custom furniture design, with a strong emphasis on materiality, craftsmanship, and fabrication. At Roman & Williams, he contributed extensively to bespoke furniture developed for interior projects across restaurants, hotels, and private residences.
In 2020, Diego founded Studio Rombo, a cultural platform dedicated to supporting artists and artisans through collaboration, exhibition, and thoughtful curation. Most recently, he opened Studio Rombo’s store and gallery in Oaxaca City, Mexico—a permanent space that he fully designed and independently funded. The space functions as both an exhibition venue and showroom, presenting exceptional artisans from multigenerational craft families as contemporary artists, while featuring Diego’s own designs and collaborative works created alongside the artists he represents. The project challenges traditional hierarchies between art, craft, and design, foregrounding authorship, visibility, and creative equity.
A defining project of Diego’s artistic practice is New York Titans, a long-term drawing series and collaborative exhibition exploring architecture, memory, and urban identity. Developed over five years, the project brought together large-scale architectural drawings with works by fellow artists and Oaxacan artisans and opened with the support of the Consulate General of Mexico in New York.
Diego’s work spans architecture, visual art, furniture, and curatorial practice, unified by a commitment to craftsmanship, cultural continuity, and the elevation of historically underrepresented creative voices.