Scherezade García


Scherezade García is a Dominican-born, US-based painter, printmaker and installation artist. She is a co-founder of the Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA Collective. García is an Advisor to the Board of Directors of and sits on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association for the period of 2020-2024. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and is represented by in New York.

Early life and education

Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic García has been active in the visual arts from the time she was a child. After graduating with an AAS from the Altos de Chavón School of Design, a Parsons affiliate, in La Romana, Dominican Republic in 1986, she won a full merit scholarship to attend Parsons School of Design in New York City. She received a BFA cum laude from Parsons in 1988 and completed an MFA in Sculpture at City College of New York in 2011. Since 1986 she has lived and worked in New York. She is the sister of artist iliana emilia García.

Career

She has since served on the faculty of Parsons. In 2015 she received a career grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Much of García's work deals with themes relating to immigration and the desire to belong in a new country; she has stated that her interest lies in the Caribbean, especially the Hispanic diaspora, and her art is informed by aspects of her black and European heritage. Four of her mixed-media works are in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Other works may be found in the collections of El Museo del Barrio, the Housatonic Museum of Art, and the Museo de Arte Moderno Santo Domingo.

Selected grants, awards, and residencies