ektor garcia

ektor garcia (b. 1985, Red Bluff, CA) lives and works nomadically. garcia’s multi-faceted practice incorporates handcrafted and technically rendered objects that are often combined into multi-part installations. garcia frequently repurposes elements from his own oeuvre to create new iterations of works. 

He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2016. He has had solo exhibitions at Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2024); James Fuentes, New York (2023); Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco (2022); Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2022); the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (2022); Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2021); and SculptureCenter, New York (2019); amongst others.

garcia's work has been included in group exhibitions at Bibeau Krueger, New York (2024); Adams and Ollman, Portland (2024); Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Palo Alto (2024); Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (2024); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2024); the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston (2023); Lisson Gallery, New York (2023); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2022); Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada (2022); and the Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia (2022); amongst others.

He was artist-in-residence at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (2022); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2021); amongst others.

garcia's work is in the collections of the Cantor Arts Center, Palo Alto; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.