Nationality:
american
Gender:
Male
Birth Date:
1941
Birth Place:
French Camp, California
Chicano poster artist.
MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1981
MA, San Francisco State University, 1970
BA, San Francisco State University, 1968
Lives in Oakland, California.
One founder of Chicano art movement. Actively involved in civil rights movement and opposition to Vietnam War. Defines himself as a "critical artist," or more simply, a concerned human being.
A twenty-five-year body of work speaks to issues of a shrinking global village, where ethnic and national boundaries have begun to warp. Garcia
uses borrowed imagery, quotation, and juxtaposition of image and text as part of his strategy for critique and resistance.
