Diane Gamboa has many forms of art including photography, paper fashion, media art, and paintings.  Her famous photography during the 1980s relates to the East L.A. punk scene illustrating the Chicano and Chicana influence of that genre.  Her Hit and Run series is her infamous paper fashion.  Gamboa constructs her own artwork rather than having an assembly line as well as create her work with inexpensive materials including butcher paper, tissue wire, and glitter. By utilizing inexpensive materials, she challenges the concept of couture and the economic barriers. Her paper fashion became street wear and became popular and displayed in museums. She has made more than seventy-five paper fashions, which consist of seventy-five dresses, including three cross-gender dresses, and eleven other outfits for males.  She also creates purse art and jackets.
In her Pin Up series she has androgynous individuals filled with tattoos, jewelry, and body decorations.  She puts tattoos to illustrate her liking of the tattoo culture and what is seen as “taboo.”  This series reflect the sexual dynamics and tensions between the masculine and feminine.  She blends masculine elements and feminine components to challenge the gender roles especially in sex. She is also a tattoo artist.  In her Bruja-Ha collection, she discusses within her art magic, power, and the belief systems between the positive energy and negative energy.  Also within this collection, she adds unique objects that represent “potions” and “recipes” in order to create a positive energy.   Her different forms of art, questions the hegemonic society and challenges the roles and traditions our society places upon individuals.