Background
Born in Mexicali, Mexico, and raised in the United States from the age of six, Garcia grew up in the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Los Angeles
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Education
Garcia then attended University of Southern California"s Roski School of Art and Design, where he completed a Master"s in Public Art Studies in 2009. In 2009, Garcia received a Eugene V. Cota-Robles Doctoral Fellowship from University of California, Los Angeles"s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, where he is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy with a specialization in History and Theory of Museological, Exhibitionary, and Curatorial Practices.
Career
Upon graduating from Bravo Medical Magnet High School in Boyle Heights, Garcia went on to earn a dual bachelor"s degree in Political Science and Chicano Studies from University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. His master"s thesis, based on extensive field research, mapped the growth of alternative and artist-run spaces along the United States.-Mexico border during the height of the violent cartel wars. Garcia is advised by Doctor Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles Professor of Culture and Performance and LACMA"s Consulting Curator of African Artist
Since 2012, Garcia has been the Founding Director and Chief Curator of The Mistake Room—Los Angeles"s only independent, non-profit cultural institution solely devoted to an international program of art and ideas.
From 2007–2012, Garcia served as the associate director and Senior Curator at LAXART, Los Los Angeles In 2008, Garcia served on the curatorial team of the 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art (curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Doctor of Philosophy) and in 2012 he was one of the curators of Made in Los Angeles 2012, the first Los Angeles Biennial organized by the Hammer Museum and LAXART. Garcia was the United States. Commissioner of the 13th International Cairo Biennial, and in 2013 served on the curatorial research committee of the 55th International Venice Biennale curated by Massimiliano Gioni.
Garcia"s notable exhibitions and projects include Joel Kyack"s freeway puppet theater Superclogger (2010). Marcos Ramirez" ERRE"s retrospective exhibition at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (co-curated with Kevin Power).
A re-staging of Mark di Suvero"s Artists Tower of Protest for the Getty Foundation"s Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival (2012).
The United States. museum premiere of Egyptian artist Wael Shawky"s Cabaret Crusades at the Hammer Museum (2013). And Eduardo Sarabia"s mid-career survey at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico (2014), amongst others At The Mistake Room, Garcia has organized the first United States. institutional solo show of Colombia-born, United Kingdom-based artist Oscar Murillo (2014).
The first Los Angeles solo show of Thailand-born, New York-based artist Korakrit Arunanondchai (2014).
A survey of artist Gordon Matta-Clark"s films (2014). A focused historical exhibition devoted to the work of American abstract expressionist painter Editor Clark (2015).
And the first United States. solo show of Argentina-born, Guatemala-based artist Vivian Suter (2015).
