Bertha Diaz is an independent art curator at DZ fine art consultants. She studied Art History at Sotheby’s and Christie’s in London and Contemporary Mexican Art at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. She has been representing contemporary artists for many years, specializing in Mexican and Latin American art. She is highly experienced in running art programmes for artists including Enrique Estrada, Miguel Morales, Manolo Cocho, Claudia Esqueda, Roberto Rodriguez, Miguel Morales, Bertha Cuellar, Elaine Constantine, Lorena Krause, Antonia Low, and Martine Feipel.
Bertha has served as curator of various projects and installations including: Signa – Mexican Contemporary Digital Art (Deluxe Gallery, London, 2003); This is the shape of clouds: Lorena Krause's photography (Deluxe Gallery, London 2004); D'Sehnsucht: Martine Feipel and Antonia Low (VTO Gallery London, 2004). Most recently she curated Reconnoiter (Brickell Square, Miami, 2008).
For the Deluxe Gallery in London, she helped to organize a numerous exhibitions examples of which are: The Fashion of Architecture (with Baumschlager and Eberle Architekten, 2004); C film (2004); Site Soundings (2003); 100% Norway (2003), Visions of Irak to mention some.
Institutions, both private and public, with whom Bertha has collaborated include: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Queretaro, Mexico; Gallery 127, Mexico City; Galeria Casa de Francia, Mexico City; Mexican Cultural Institute of New York; Good Hands Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Museo de arte Siqueiros, Mexico City.
Bertha is particularly interested in organic art, which recognizes beauty in natural forms and the fact that through art one can develop deeper awareness of the world around us. She is devoted to the study and practice of yoga, and is a certified teacher in her own private studio in Miami.