ektor garcia

ektor garcia

b. 1985, Red Bluff, California
lives in Mexico, New York and elsewhere

ektor garcia’s practice utilizes craftwork connected to his own biography and cultural inheritance, including queer culture and traditional Mexican craft. Individual works and installations make use of deeply varied textures, techniques, and materials side-by-side, such as lace, weaving, and crochet, as well as ceramics and metalwork. His pieces can be at once sensual, evoking the human body, as well as reference architectural and natural forms. Conceptually speaking, his work subtly conveys historical and biographical narratives counterposed with brutal political commentary on those same subjects. His pieces often give the impression of a collection of family heirlooms or exhumed artifacts, suggesting an embedded past and future in each object. His work has been exhibited in solo shows at the SculptureCenter, New York (2019), and Cooper Cole, Toronto (2019), and in group exhibitions at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, Aspen, Colorado (2019); LAXART, Los Angeles (2018); and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2017). garcia earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2014) and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, New York (2016).

ektor garcia, chainmale ano, 2019. Glazed ceramic, 2 1/2 x 11 x 11 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Kyle Knodell