Scherezade Garcia
455 Pacific St.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718.596.1927, cell 646.247.2088
EDUCATION
MFA 2008-10 Studio Art, City College of New York
BFA 1988 Fine Arts/illustration Parsons School of Design, NY cum laude
AAS 1986 Fine Arts Altos de Chavon School of Design, La Romana, DR affiliated with
Parsons School of Design, NY, NY, graduated Summa Cum laude
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004- present Studio in a School, teaching artist, NYC
2003 Lehman College, Education Department, teaching artist Bronx, NY
2003 Altos de Chavon School of Design, teaching artist (drawing), Santo Dgo. DR
2002 Altos de Chavon School of Design, teaching artist, (drawing) La Romana, DR
2000 El Museo del Barrio, Education Dept., teaching artist, NY, NY
1997 Altos de Chavon School of Design, teaching artist (painting), La Romana, DR
1995 Parsons School of Design, NYC, teaching artist (fashion illustration)
1994 Parsons School of Design NYC, teaching artist (fashion illustration-drawing)
HONORS
2007 Honored at The 8th international conference on women writers of the Spanish Caribbean; on Diaspora and Homecoming, Hostos Community College, CUNY
2006 Nominee for Joan Mitchell foundation grant
2005 Finalist for public art project, Percent for the Arts, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs
2005 Recipient of Lehman College Art Gallery Grant
2005 Emerge 6, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, professional development for artists
2004 Nominee for Joan Mitchell foundation grant
2000 Panelist for New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
2001 Honored as outstanding Latina Women for El Diario La Prensa, NYC
2001 Invited to the Biennale of Central America and The Caribbean for
Solo exhibition, Santo Domingo, DR
1999 Invited to the Cuban Biennale for solo exhibition, Dominican selection.
1996 Selected artist by the Committee of International Affairs of the
Museum of Modern Art in Dominican Republic for the International
Biennale of Painting Haut de Gagnes, France.
1995 Artist in residence at Altos de Chavon/School of Design, Dominican Republic
1998 Artwork selected for Parsons School of Design academic catalog
1988 Artwork selected for the Parsons school of Design Fine Arts and illustration senior exhibition invitation.
1986 Parsons Institutional Scholarship and Dana work program, Parsons School of
Design, NYC.
COMMISSIONS
2008 “Green Wall”, Sculpture for “In Response”; summer projects at Wave Hill, The Bronx,
“My floating world”, large scale painting for Caney Tower, Santo Domingo, DR
Artist in residence at El Museo del Barrio for the development of an outdoor mural in conjunction with the “Tainos” exhibition, NYC
1994 Selected Artist by the Hispanic Heritage Committee for the City of New York to develop three posters for the celebration of the Hispanic Heritage Month in NYC, unveiling at The New York City Public Library, 42thSt and 5 Ave. by Governor Mario CONTACT _Con-3D92BFAF6A \c \s \l Cuomo.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 District & Co. Art/Culture, Santo Domingo, DR “ Morir soñando/Dying dreaming”
2007 Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx NY, “Paradise redefined”
2007 Salena Gallery, Long Island University, “Island of many Gods”
2006 Crossroads Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN “Selected pieces”
2003 Jersey City Museum, jersey City, NJ, “Souvenir”, 1x1 individual projects
2001 IV Caribbean Biennial, Santo Domingo, “God, Nation and freedom”
2000 The Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba “Paraiso/ Paradise
1998 Ultimo Arte Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, “Stories of Salvation”
Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY “ Objects of war, Tales of freedom
1997 Mary Anthony Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, “Tales of Freedom”
Department of Housing & Development Community Affairs, New York, NY
1995 Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, “Fallen Angels”
1994 The Art Nouveau Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, “History of a long conversation”
1993 Tino Cosma Design Store, New York, NY, “Small works”
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Museum de Merida, Mexico, Biennale Arte Nuevo interactive
2007 Away, femme Diaspora creativite et dialogue et dialogue intercultural, Unesco, Paris, France
2006 El Museo del Barrio, NYC: This Skin I’m in”, Museum new acquisitions
2006 El Museo del Barrio, NYC “Merengue; Visual Rhythms”
2006 City without walls, Newark, NJ “drawing Stage” curated by Carmen Ramos
2005 Suite Quisqueya; new Dominican painting at District & Co. art/culture curated by Paula Gomez and
2005 Emerge 6; on location, Aljira a center for contemporary art, curated by Lilly Wei, Newark, NJ
2005 Samson projects, “Dominicanazo”. Boston, Masashusset
Honored with the AICA award as the best group show in a commercial gallery
2005 Bayennale at Somarts (South Market Arts Center), San Francisco, CA
2004 Sin titulo, Triennial poligrafica de San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004 Black Atlantic at Haus der Kulture der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2004 Queens Museum of Art, Panorama of the City, “A celebration of Art and Entrepreneurship”
2003 V Caribbean Biennial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Longwood Art Gallery@ Hostos, Bronx, NY “Bootlegender”
The Newark Museum of Art, NJ, “ The Caribbean Abroad; Contemporary Artists and Latino Migration”
Arte Actual/ Gallery Carmen Rita Perez, La Marina, Dominican Republic
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY “De lo que soy”(Of What Iam)
2002 Arte Actual/ Gallery Carmen Rita Perez, La Marina, Dominican Republic
The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “to scale”
BAM (the Brooklyn Academy of Music), Brooklyn, NY “slam Video Film festival”, screening of
“Sabana de la Mar” video
2000 El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY, “The S-Files”
El Museo del Barrio and The Bravo Group, NYC Cow parade
Yale University, New Haven, CT, “Poetry and Politics of Art Books”
Salena Gallery at Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, “Known Territories”
1999 The Carriage House, NYC “SDQ-JFK”
Imarisha Art House, Brooklyn, NY “Family, fraction and fusion; La Hispaniola”
Leonora Vega Gallery, NYC “Disorienting Signs”
1998 Leonora Vega Gallery, NYC “Sounds Fates”
Aaron Davis Hall, Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, NYC, “The circle comes around: Recent art from the Dominican Republic”
Leonora Vega Gallery, NYC “Inaugural Exhibitions”
1997 Tweed Gallery at City Hall, NYC, “The new American Art show”
Art Gallery Queens Theater in the Park, Queens, NY “Emerging Latino Artists in NY”
1996 Commissary General International Biennial of Painting, Haut de Gagnes, France, representing the
Dominican Republic
Ultimo Arte Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, “Circuito”
Mary Anthony Gallery, NYC “Manifesto”
1995 Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, National Biennial
1994 Ossaye Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, “A foot here and a foot there”
1992 Hostos Community College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY “500 yolas”
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT, “Impact of two worlds”
1991 Henry Street Settlement, Luis Abrons Art Center, NYC “Crossings”
Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, “Dominican artists beyond
borders”
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wood, Yolanda, “Hispanic artist in New York City”, book, 1994 NYC-Cuba
Tolentino, Marianne, “Artist of the Dominican Republic” catalog by the Americas Society, 1995
Myrna Guerrero, Danilo de los Santos, “Mujer y Arte Dominicano”, book, 1995, Santo Domingo, D.R.
Marianne de Tolentino, “Energy into painting”, article, Listin Diario, 1995, Santo Domingo, D.R.
Laura Gil, “Drawings of joy and color”, article, El Caribe, 1995, Santo Domingo, D.R.
The American Art Show, catalog, Tweed gallery, 1997, NYC
Jonathan Goodman, “Tales of Freedom”, essay, Leonora Vega Gallery, 1998, NYC
Sara Herman, “Scherezade and her stories of salvation”, catalogue, Ultimo Arte Gallery,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Graciela Kartofel, Jan Estep, essay “Disorienting signs”, Leonora Vega Gallery, catalogue, 1999
David Vinuales, ”Scherezade”, article, Listin Diario, 1999, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Art and Leisure, NY Times, The S-files at the Museo del Barrio, photo and selected show, June 2000 NYC
Edward J. Sullivan, ”From Here to eternity; Paraiso and other recent works by Scherezade, essay-catalogue, 2000, NYC
The “S-files”, review, Art Nexus, no.38, Oct-Dec 2000, Latin America and USA
The “S-files”, catalogue, El Museo del Barrio, June 2000, NYC
Alanna Lockward, “Bienal de La Habana”, 2000, Cariforum, no.4, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2001
Linda Pliagas, ”Stories of Latinas achievers across the USA, article, Latina Style magazine, USA 2000
“Outstanding Latina Women”, article and newspaper supplement, El Diario La Prensa, March 2002 NYC
Sarah Hermann, “Migraciones hasta everywhere”, article, ARTes , no 5, Oct-Dec 2002 “, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Eduardo Marceles, “Artistas de la Diaspora Hispanoamericana en New York”, article, ARTes, no 5, 2002 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Abil Peralta, ”Diaspora Viva”, article, ARTes , no 5 Oct.-Dec. 2002, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Robin Cembales, ”Modern-day Fridas”, Latina magazine, Nov. 2002 NYC
Maria Vega, ‘De lo que soy/of what I am”, article, El Diario La Prensa, 2003 NYC
William Zimmer, “Through her eyes only”, article NY Times, 2003
Patricia Stevens, Susan Hoeltzel, ”De lo que soy / of what I am”, catalogue, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx ,NY 2003
Maria Vega, “Salvavidas rosas para mares bravios”, article, El Diario La Prensa, Sept.11, 2003,
NYC
Tania Torres, ”Dominican-yorks sin cadenas”, articles, Siempre newspaper, 2003, NYC
Listin Diario, District & Co.,” Suite Quisqueya; new Dominican painting”, 2005, Santo Domingo, DR
Holland Cutter, New York Times, Emerge 6; on location, Dec 2005
Scherezade Garcia, Small Axe a Caribbean journal of criticism, Feb 2006
Benjamin Genocchio, New York Times, Paradise redefined, Dec 2006
Holland Cotter, New York Times, Merengue ; Visual Rhythms , Jan 2007
CONFERENCES
2009 Southern Connecticut State University, Women of Color Knowledge Production; paper “Paradise
redefined”, New Haven, CT
VISITING ARTISTS LECTURES
1994 Guest speaker at the graduation ceremony in altos de Chavon/School of Design, affiliated to
Parsons School of Design, La Romana, Dominican Republic
Guest speaker at Hostos Community College, invited by the Women Studies dept.
1998 Speaker at the City University of New York (CUNY), Dominican Studies Institute
2000 Panelist for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
Speaker at the El Museo del Barrio, S-files exhibition lectures
2005 Guest Speaker at Middlebury College, Vermont for the Anthropology Dept.and the Art Dept.
2006 Guest speaker at the Latin American Studies and Art Department in The University of Notre Dame, I
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Barceló Public Collection, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
National Palace of the Dominican Republic, Official office of the president of the Republic
Carmen Rita Perez de Alvarez-Renta, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Fundación Centro de Arte Nouveau, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Cariforo Institute, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Joan Guaita, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Leonora Vega, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico and New York
Mary Anthony Galleries, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Marisela and Juan Silva, Caracas, Venezuela
Consulate of the Dominican Republic in the Republic of Haiti
The Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian