EDUCATION
2011 M.F.A., City College of New York, CUNY, New York, Painting and Sculpture
Advisor Colin Chase. Thesis: Little Bit of Always
1988 B.F.A., cum laude, Parsons School of Design at the New School, New York, Illustration
1986 A.A.S., summa cum laude, Altos de Chavón School of Design, La Romana, Dominican Republic, Fine Arts and Illustration
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS + TEACHING
2021-present Assistant Professor, Studio Art (Painting and Drawing), tenure- track
Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
⎯Courses taught include Intermediate and Advanced Drawing, Painting I, II, III and IV, Graduate critique, Professional Practices, Seminar Topic: Art on the Move.
2010-2021 Assistant Professor, Art
Department of Fine Arts, Parsons The New School of Design, The New School, New York, NY
⎯Courses taught include LAB Foundation Program I, II, III, Thesis for Integrated Design Program, Sustainable Systems
2011-2014 Lecturer, Art History
Department of Liberal Arts, Saint Francis College, Brooklyn, NY
⎯Courses taught in Art history 101.
2004–2010 Teaching Artist Studio in a School Organization, New York, NY
SELECTED AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
2025-2026 Faculty Creative Research Grant, Austin, TX
2023-2024 Jeanene Booth Duncan Endowment in Art, Austin, TX
2023 Summer Research Assignment (SRA), The University of Texas at Austin, TX
2023 Department of Art and Art History Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
2021-2024 Dean’s Fellow, The Walter and Gina Ducloux Fine Arts Faculty Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
2021-2024 John D. Murchison Professorship in Art, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
22020 Colene Brown Art Prize, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Painters and Sculptors Grant, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
2007 Recognition of contribution to the World of Art at the 8th International Conference on Women Writers of The Spanish Caribbean: on Diaspora Homecoming, Hostos Community College, New York, NY
2005 NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Lehman College Art Gallery Grant, Bronx, NY
2004 Emerge 6, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2002 50 Latinas Destacadas, El Diario, New York, NY
1999 Official Dominican Republic Artist Representative, Bienal de la Habana, Cuba
1996 Official Dominican Republic Artist Representative, International Biennial of Paintings, Haute de Cagnes, France
1988 Artwork selected for Parsons School of Design Academic Catalog
Artwork selected for Parsons School of Design Fine Arts and Illustration Senior Exhibition Invitation
Artwork selected for Fine Arts and Illustration Department at Parsons Commencement Invitation, New York, NY
1986 Parsons Institutional Scholarship and the Dana Work Program, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1980 Award, Painting competition, Mairie annexe du 13eme arrondissement Cercle Municipal des Gobelins et des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1979 Honorable Mention, I exposição International de arte infantil. Ano International da criança, Brasilia, Brazil
1979 Third Prize Linoleum Engraving, National Competition of Children Art, Secretary of Education and Fine Arts, Dominican Republic
1975 Award, World Children’s Wrestling Competition Painting Exhibition, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
ART RESIDENCIES
2025 Golden Foundation Residency, New Berlin, NY
2017 Artist-in-Residence, The Joan Mitchell Foundation Center, New Orleans, LA
2012 Artist-in-Residence, The Serie Project, Serie XIX, Austin, TX
1995 Artist-in-Residence, Altos de Chavón School of Design, Dominican Republic
ART COMMISSIONS
2021-2025 In Transit/Intertwined Memories, mosaic mural, Metropolitan ` Transportation Authority, MTA Arts & Design Commission, 149th St Bronx Station, NY
2018 Liquid Highway: Roots of Civilization, BRIC, mural Installation at 80 DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
2015 In Transit/Liquid Highway, mural at Miller Theatre, Columbia ` University in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk, program cover, Fourth Siglo XXI Conference: Forging the Future of Latinos in a Time of Crisis. University of Notre Dame, Inter-University Program for Latino Research, South Bend, IN
2000 The Cow that Wants to Be a Horse, The Original Cow Town, The Bravo Group, installed at 1230 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
1997 Taíno Mural, commissioned by El Museo del Barrio for its 104th Street Firehouse, New York, NY
1994 Hispanic Heritage Committee for the City of New York, paintings for posters for Hispanic Heritage Month, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 A Sea of Belonging: Resilience in Las Américas I. Praxis Arte Internacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2025 A Sea of Belonging: Resilience in Las Américas II. Praxis Gallery, New York, NY.
2023 Under the Lace: Stories of Floating Cathedrals, Resiliencies, and
Encounters. Praxis Gallery, New York, NY.
2022 Collective Portraits: The Map in My Skin. IBIS Contemporary Art Gallery,
New Orleans, LA.
2021 Stories of Wonder: When the Sea is My Land. Praxis Gallery, New York, NY.
2020 The Corona Altar/Day of the Dead. Green-Wood Historical Cemetery,
Brooklyn, NY.
2019 Stories of Wonder: From This Side of the Atlantic. Praxis Gallery, New York, NY.
2018 Fuegos artificiales y otras historias/Fireworks and Other Stories. Lyle O.
Reitzel Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2017 It's so Sunny That It's Dark. Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University,
Hamilton, NY.
Memories Afloat, Lyle O. Reitzel Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, NY.
In My Floating World, Museum of Latin American Art-Long Beach, LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA.
2016 Cathedral/Catedral, Theories of Freedom. Special Project, Context
New York Art Fair, Lyle O. Reitzel Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY.
Super Tropics, Volta Contemporary Art Fair, Lyle O. Reitzel Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, NY.
2015 Super Tropics/Super Trópico, Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
In Transit/Liquid Highway, Miller Theatre and The Miriam and Ira D.
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Las Aguas Libres/Waters of Freedom. Gallery of the College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY.
2012 The Postcard Haiti-Dominican Republic Project-Action. In collaboration
with Borders of Light, Dajabon, Dominican Republic.
Invented Civilizations. La Peña Art Gallery, Austin, TX.
The Sacred Body Art of the Omo Valley. Solo project for The Armory
Show, African Burial Ground Museum, New York, NY.
2011 Theories of Freedom. Humanities Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY.
2010 Theories of Freedom. International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC.
2008 Morir Soñando (Dying Dreaming). District & Co. – The Gallery, Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2007 Paradise Redefined. Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY.
Island of Many Gods. Salena Gallery at Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY.
2006 Paradise: Selected Pieces. Crossroads Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN.
2003 Souvenir: 1 x 1 Individual Projects. Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ.
2002 Sabana de la Mar: City of the Drowned. Performance-action, Sabana
de La Mar, Dominican Republic.
2001 Dios, Patria y Libertad (God, Country and Freedom), from the series
Paraíso (Paradise). IV Bienal del Caribe, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic.
2000 Stories of Salvation. Galería Último Arte, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic.
Paraíso (Paradise). 7th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
1998 Cuentos de Salvación. Galería Último Arte. Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic.
Objects of War, Tales of Freedom. Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY.
1997 Tales of Freedom. Mary Anthony Galleries, New York, NY.
1995 Angeles Caídos. Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic.
1994 History of a Long Conversation. Galería Art Nouveau, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
SELECTED DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Over Water: Kyrin Hobson & Scherezade Garcia
Martin-Mullen Gallery, The State University of New York College at Oneonta, NY
2025 Landed. Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, New York, NY, curated by Isabella Hutchinson.
2024 Agua Firme: Odyssey, FIACI Art Santo Domingo, Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2023 Agua Firme: Tierra Madre, a collaboration between iliana emilia Garcia and Scherezade Garcia, Galería ASR, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Agua Firme: The Odyssey, a collaboration between iliana emilia Garcia and Scherezade Garcia commissioned as an extension of the exhibition Kingdom of this World, Reimagined, Pittsburgh University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Leslie Wolff.
2022 Memory Keepers. Iliana Emilia + Scherezade Garcia, Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ, curated by Alejandro Anreus.
2019 Visual Memory: Home + Place, Scherezade and iliana emilia García. AMA | Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, curated by Olga U. Herrera.
2017 Home is Gold. Taller Boricua Gallery, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, New York, NY, curated by Nitza Tufiño.
2016 Unpacking Hispañola: Scherezade García and Firelei Báez. Taller
Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Abigail Lapin Dardashti.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales, Ruffin Gallery at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Liljevalchs, i8Stockholm, Sweden
Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
Cuerpo e identidad, Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, Washington, DC.
2024 The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition. The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
By dawn’s early light. Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Cuerpo e Identidad/ Body and Identity, New York Latin American Art Triennial, Governor’s Island, NY.
Rivers Flow: Artists Connect. The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY.
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting. Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland.
Personal Geographies. El Kilometro, Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Personal Geographies. Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, NY.
Dominican York Proyecto Gráfico Collective. IFPDA Print Fair, The Park
Avenue Armory, New York, NY.
2023 Historias/Histories. Christie’s Auction House, New York, NY.
El Tiempo de Todavía. Centro E. León, Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Unbreakable: Feminist Visions from the Gilberto Cárdenas and Dolores
Garcia Collection. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX.
El Dorado: Myth of Gold. Americas Society, New York, NY.
Re-Framing Female Gaze: Women and the New Historicism. Lehman
College. Bronx, NY.
American Carnaval, and Reframing America: Native American Great
Spirit. Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State. U.S. Embassy, Madrid, Spain.
2022 When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa.
Field Notes. Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY.
Modern & Post-War Art & Latinx Art. Swann Galleries, New York, NY.
Tell Me A Story. 1 Gap Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Flora Fantastic: Eco Critical Contemporary Botanical Art. Apex Art
Gallery, New York, NY.
DominicanX, Natura Ad Artem. Jose Reyes 253, Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Juan Francisco Elso: Por América. El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; traveled to Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL.
Whisper: Poetics of Femininity. Rogaland Kunstenter, Stavanger, Norway.
Mujeres Al Lente. Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Caribbean Dimensions. Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, Washington, DC.
All My Ancestors, The Spiritual in Afro-LatinX Art, Brandywine Workshop + Archives, Philadelphia, PA.
Blue, Casa Ossaye, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2021 Vida, Muerte, Justicia / Life, Death, Justice: Latin American and Latinx Art for the 21st Century. Ogden Contemporary Art Center, Ogden, UT. The Kingdom of This World Reimagined. Pensacola Museum of Art, FL; traveled to Pittsburgh University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
!Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, from 1965 to Now. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; traveled to Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX;
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire; Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Nashville, TN.
Trayectos. Centro Cultural de España, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2020 49.5 Exhibition. 601 Artspace, New York, NY.
2019 At Sea. Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY.
Traces Crossing the Sand. Governor’s Island, New York, NY.
Pasado y Presente: Art After the Young Lords. Losaida Center, New York, NY.
Harlem Postcards Spring 2019. The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY.
Dimensión Móvil. Centro Cultural Eduardo E. León Jimenez, Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Mujeres de Luz. La Peña, Austin, TX.
The Kingdom of This World Reimagined. Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, FL, and King Juan Carlos Center at New York University, New York, NY.
2018 Between Two Seas: LA International. Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
WATER/ماء : Trespassing Liquid Highways. Gallery 102, Corcoran School of Arts and Design, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Queenie: Selected Artworks by Female Artists from El Museo del Barrio
Collection. Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY.
Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and
Their Diasporas. BRIC, Brooklyn, NY.
2017 The Border Pavilion. Inaugural Autonomous Biennial, Venice, Italy.
Landscape of Paradise: Golden Floating Path. St. Ann & The Holy Trinity
Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, NY.
Outcast: Women in the Wilderness. Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY.
How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin
America’s Disney. PST: LA/LA Getty Initiative, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA.
Alien Nations. Anxious? Isolated? Alienated? Artists Take Aim at Troubled Times. Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY.
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean
Archipelago. PST: LA/LA Getty Initiative, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA; traveled to Wallach Art Gallery and Sugar Hill
Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, NY; Portland
Museum of Art, Portland, ME; and Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE.
2016 In Situ: Visiones del paisaje en las Grandes Antillas. Museo de Arte Dr.
Pio López Martínez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey, Cayey, Puerto Rico.
Home, Memory, and Future. Caribbean Cultural Center, African
Diaspora Institute. New York, NY.
Echos Imprevus/Turning Tide. Memorial ACte Museum, Basse Terre,
Guadalupe.
Bronx Latin American Art Biennial. Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY.
Rise. Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ.
2015 Bring in the Reality. No Longer Empty at the Nathan Cummings
Foundation, New York, NY.
Testimony Across the Disciplines: Queensborough Community College
Respond to Genocide through Art and Writing. The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives, Queens, NY.
The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community. National
Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL.
2014 Bric Biennial: Volume I, Downtown Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
If You Build It/Sugar Hill. No Longer Empty, New York, NY.
2013 Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art. Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Washington, DC; traveled to The Patricia and
Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL;
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt
Lake City, UT; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK; Delaware Art
Museum, Wilmington, DE; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA;
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN.
Here & There, Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA, University of
California Washington Center Gallery, Washington, DC.
2012 Battlefield from the series Fallen Angels. Art in Embassies Program, U.S.
Department of State. U.S. Embassy, Montevideo, Uruguay.
This Side of Paradise. No Longer Empty, The Formerly Rich, Lehman
College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY.
El Panal/The Hive. Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Casa de
Contrafuertes, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Here & There, Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA. Barnard College,
New York, NY.
Dominican Artists-Interwoven Identities. Jardín de las Esculturas, Celaya, Veracruz, Mexico,
2011 Loosely Coupled. Governor’s Island, New York, NY.
About Change in Latin America and the Caribbean. The World Bank,
Washington, DC.
Manifestaciones, Printmaking Portfolio, Dominican Studies Institute, City
College of New York, New York, NY. Traveled to Empire State College
Art Gallery, New York, NY; University of California Art Gallery,
Washington, DC; Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, and Centro de la Cultura de Santiago de los 30 Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
Etnia-Art Fair, Espacio Latinoamericano, Brussels, Belgium.
On Paper, Abro Gallery, Miami, FL.
Dream Box, District & Co. - The Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic.
2009 Group Show, ABRO Gallery by Ada Balcácer, Miami, FL.
Back-to-Back/Face to Face, Art of Haiti and The Dominican Republic,
Embassy of Haiti, Washington, DC.
7 Islands/7 Artists, Embassy of Venezuela, Washington, DC.
Bienal de Arte Interactivo, Museo de Mérida, Mérida, Mexico.
2008 Labyrinth, Exit Art, New York, NY.
In Response: Summer Projects, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY.
2007 Away, femmes diaspora créativité et dialogue intercultural. UNESCO,
Paris, France.
2006 This Skin I’m In. El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
¡Merengue! Visual Rhythm/Ritmos Visuales. El Museo del Barrio, New
York, NY. Traveled to The William Benton Museum of Art, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Drawing Stage. City Without Walls. Newark, NJ.
2005 Suite Quisqueya. District & Co. – The Gallery, Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic.
Emerge 6: On Locations. Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark,
NJ.
Dominicanazo!!, Samson Projects, Boston, MA.
Bayennale at Somarts, South Market Arts Center, San Francisco, CA.
2004 Sin Título, Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Black Atlantic. Haus der Kulture der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
A Celebration of Art and Entrepreneurship. Queens Museum of Art,
Queens, NY.
2003 V Bienal del Caribe. Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic.
Bootlegender. Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College,
Bronx, NY.
The Caribbean Abroad: Contemporary Artists and Latino Migration.
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ.
De lo Que Soy (What I’m Of). Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY.
2002 Arte Actual. Galería Carmen Rita Pérez, Casa de Campo, La
Romana, Dominican Republic.
To Scale. The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Sabana de la Mar, Slam Video Film Festival. The Brooklyn Academy of
Music, Brooklyn, NY.
2000 Poetry and Politics of Art Books. Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Known Territories. Salena Gallery at Long Island University, Brooklyn,
NY.
SDQ-JFK. The Carriage House, New York, NY.
Family, Fission and Fusion: La Hispaniola. Imarisha Art House, Brooklyn,
NY.
The S-Files. El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
NY Cow Parade. El Museo Del Barrio and the Bravo Group, New York, NY.
1999 Disorienting Signs. Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY.
1998 Sound Fates. Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY.
The Circle Comes Around: Recent Art from the Dominican Republic.
Aaron Davis Hall, The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in
the Americas and the Caribbean, New York, NY.
Inaugural Exhibition. Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY.
1997 The New American Art Show. Tweed Gallery at City Hall, New York, NY.
Emerging Latino Artists in NY. Queens Theater in the Park, Queens, NY.
1996 International Painting Biennial. Haute de Cagnes, France.
Circuito. Último Arte Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Manifesto. Mary Anthony Galleries, New York, NY.
1995 Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales. Museo de Arte Moderno,
SantoDomingo, Dominican Republic.
1994 Un pie aquí y otro allá. Galería Roberto Ossaye, Santo Domingo Dominican Republic.
1992 500 Yolas. Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY.
Impact of Two Worlds. Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT.
Crossings: 13 Artists from the Dominican Republic. Krasdale Foods, Inc.,
Bronx, NY.
Second Part. Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT.
1991 Henry Street Settlement. Abrons Art Center, New York, NY.
Dominican Artists Beyond Borders. Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
ARTIST COLLECTIVES
2018-present Co-founder, La Force Artist Collective
2010-present Co-founder, Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA (DYPG)
2012-present Member and collaborator, Border of Lights
SELECTED INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2025 Conversation; A Sea of Belonging, Tandazani Dhlakama & Scherezade Garcia at Praxis Art Gallery
Artist presentation Sam + Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts open studios.
Brooklyn Museum talk hosted by Arts Connection
2024 Panel Discussion: Read Caribbean, 41st Annual Miami Book Fair, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL
Artists Talk: Turning Points with Artists Scherezade García and iliana emilia García. Angie Cruz, discussant. University Art Gallery. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2023 El Dorado Roundtable Discussion, Territory and Extraction, Americas Society, New York, NY
Panel Discussion: !Printing the Revolution!, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Panel Discussion, A Water Centered Perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Texas at Austin
2022 Artist Talk, Jornada Científica de Arte, Asociación de Historiadores de Arte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Artist Talk, ArtistsNConversation, Brandywine Workshop and Archives
Artist Lecture, Black, Indigenous,and Queer Praxis in Latinx Art, University of New Mexico
Artist Lecture, Making Today Series: Messaging Lubbock: A Journey of Belonging, Texas Tech University
Artists Panel, Fireside Chat: Innovation, Creativity, Collaboration, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
Oral History Interview, El Museo del Barrio/ Bloomberg Connects App
2021 Creative Conversations. Soft Borders: Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi, Barnard Center for Research on Women, New York, NY
Creative Counterpoints, Uprooted/Translated, MassArt Art Museum, Boston, MA
Panel Discussion: The Alien Element: Identity and Integrity, Coral Gables Museum/Lehman College, Coral Gables, FL
2020 Panel Discussion: Visual Memory: Home + Place, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
2019 Visiting Artist Lecture. Department of Art History, Dartmouth College,
Visiting Artist Lecture, Pratt Institute
Visiting Artist Lecture, Florida State University
Artist Talk, Relational Undercurrents, Delaware Museum of Art
2018 Visiting Artist Lecture, Lehman Art Department, Lehman College, CUNY
2017 Artist Lecture: Art & Art History Department, Colgate University,
Panel Discussion: Home is Gold. Taller Boricua Gallery, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, New York, NY
2016 Panel Discussion, Art, Race and Fluidity in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY
Distinguished Keynote Speaker, Re-imaging Global Intersections, IUPLR Fifth Latino Art Now LAN! Conference, University of Illinois Chicago
Artist Lecture, Reconsidering Contemporary Latino Art in the Curatorial Context: El Taller Puertorriqueño and Unpacking La Hispaniola, Temple University
Artist Lecture, Liquid Highway Revisited in context with Liquid Highway Mural and Unpacking La Hispaniola Exhibition, Columbia University
2015 Creative Conversations: Ideas into Forms, Scherezade Garcia with Deborah Cullen, Columbia University
Visiting Artist Lecture, Tinker Foundation-WPU, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
2014 Keynote Speaker, Commencement Class of 2014, Altos de Chavón Escuela de Diseño/Affiliated to Parsons School of Design at The New School, Altos de Chavón, Dominican Republic
2010 Panel Discussion: The Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA, LAN! UCLA/Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Artist Lecture, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame
2004 Artist Lecture, Middlebury College, Middleburry, VT
2003 Artist Lecture, Lehman College, Education Department, Bronx, NY 2000 El Museo del Barrio, S-Files Workshop, New York, NY
1997 Artist Lecture, Altos de Chavón School of Design, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1995 Artist Lecture, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1994 Artist Lecture, Altos de Chavón School of Design, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1993 Keynote Speaker, Commencement Class of 1993, Altos de Chavón Escuela de Diseño/Affiliated to Parsons School of Design, La Romana, Dominican Republic
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monographs
Scherezade Garcia: When the Sea is My Land, New York: Praxis and Snap Collective, 2024.
Herrera, Olga U., ed. Scherezade Garcia: From This Side of the Atlantic. Washington, DC: AMA | Art Museum of the Americas, 2020.
Book Illustration
2025 Aster(ix) Anthologies, Debut Fiction edited by Cleyvis Natera
Bridging Sonic Borders: Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/ Dominican York Literature by Sharina Maillo-Pozo
2023 Paulino, Edward. Refranes/Sayings. Prologue by Julia Alvarez. New York: Dominican Writers Association.
2014 Molina, Sintia, ed. Escritoras dominicanas a la deriva: marginación, dolor y resistencia. Madrid, España: Editorial Verbum.
2009 Peña, Mary Ely. Children's Stories, Dreams Flora & Magic. New York: Cayena Publications.
1996 Renville Santos, Guarina. Apuntes: Escuelas en San Cristóbal (1823-1975). San Cristobal, Santo Domingo: Self-published.
1987 Barinas Coiscou, Sócrates. Colibrí, Colección de poemas.
1986 Ubiñas Renville, Guaroa. Gazito Z-O y ocho cuentos más, Santo Domingo, DR: Talleres Moa.
Barinas Coiscou, Sócrates, Antillas: Las hijas del mar. Dos tercios de una lágrima por patria. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Editorial Santillana.
Selected reviews, articles, essays, books — by year (2010-present)
2025
Tandazani Dhlakama, A Sea of Belonging: Golden Skin, exhibition essay. Praxis Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina and New York, NY
Brenda Schmahmann, Contemporary Approaches to Commemoratory Public Art, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Chapter by Marisa Lerer, Commemorating Crises in Public Memorials by Antonio Martorell & Scherezade Garcia. Aranda-Alvarado, Rocío and Deborah Cullen, eds. A Handbook of Latinx Art. Oakland: University of California Press.
2024
Donoso Ulloa, Claudia. Ice for Martians, Sundial House: Latin American and Iberian Literature, Columbia University. Cover Art.
Herrera, Olga U. "Contemporary Art and Transnational Artivisms in the Americas." In Margit Fauser and Xóchitl Bada, eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Transnational Studies, Oxford: Routledge.
Iglesias Lukin, Aimé, Tie Jojima and Edward J. Sullivan, eds. El Dorado: Myths of Gold. New York: Americas Society.
Messina, Robb, El tiempo de todavía. Apuntes desde las artes visuales en el Caribe. 1984-2003, Santiago, Dominican Republic: Centro E. León Jimenes,
Nayyar, Rhea. "These are the 200+ Artists in the Brooklyn Museum's Open-Call Show." Hyperallergic. 08.27.2024
"'When We See Us. A Century of Black Figuration Painting' in Kunstmuseum Basel." Mousee Magazine, 06.17.2024.
2023
Despradel, Fernando. Entre altares, metresas y Espíritu en venganza. Santo Domingo: Impresora Soto Castillo. Cover.
Kough, Koyo. When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting. exh. cat. London: Thames and Hudson.
Philogene, Jerry. “Scherezade Garcia: Caribbean Dreams, Lush imaginations and Theories of Freedom.” In The Kingdom of This World Reimagined. digital exh cat. < https://www.kotwexhibition.com/essays>
Reinoza, Tatiana. Reclaiming The Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Ryan, Hannah and Leslie Wolff, eds.Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art. New Haven: Yale University Press.
"Scherezade Garcia: The Blue Liquid Highway.” Annual Review 2022-2023. Portal, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collection, University of Texas at Austin, No. 18. Cover Art + mention.
Slome, Manon, Laura Raicovich, Naomi Hersson-Ringskog, eds. No Longer Empty: Building Art and Community in Unused Spaces. New York: Independently published.
Sullivan Edward. "Nations Assert Themselves, 8 Black Visualities in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic: 19th and 20th Centuries." In The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art edited by David Bindman, Alejandro de la Fuente, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Book 2. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Viso, Olga, ed. Juan Francisco Elso: Essays on America. Phoenix, AZ: co- Published by Phoenix Art Museum and El Museo del Barrio.
Wolff, Lesley. “Scherezade Garcia: Unveilings Along the Liquid Highway." In Scherezade García Under the Lace: Stories of Floating Cathedrals." exh.cat. New York: Praxis.
Wood, Yolanda. La Historia del Arte en Nuestros Dias: Y La del Caribe?, Jornada Científica de Historiadores del Arte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2022
Arroyo Pizarro, Yolanda. Negras, Translated by Alejandro Álvarez Nieves. San Francisco: Sundial House and Columbia University. Cover.
Moreno, Marisel C. Crossing Waters, Undocumented Migration in Hispanophonic Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Arts, Austin: University of Texas Press.
Quesada, Sarah M., The African Heritage in Latin and Caribbean Literature. Durham: Duke Universtiy Press. Cover
2021
Herrera, Olga U. and Scherezade Garcia. "A Conversation with Scherezade Garcia," Public Art Dialogue Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1 (March 2021) 98-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/21502552.2020.1868168
Metzger Sean and Kimberly Chantal Welch, eds. “Cultural Dynamics, Insurgent scholarship on culture, politics, and power, Vol. 33, No. 1-2 (Feb-May 2021), Cover. Miyamoto, Bénédicte and Marie Ruiz, eds. Art and Migration: Revisioning the Borders of Community. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. "Postcard and Portrait Projects by Scherezade Garcia and William Vazquez." In Megan Jeannette Myers and Edward Paulino, eds. The Border of Light Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic. Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press. Roka, Les. “Exceptional Multidimensional Perspective at Vida, Muerte, Justicia at Ogden Contemporary Arts, The Utah Review, Nov. 23. Ugwu, Uzomah. "An Exquisite Conversation with Scherezade Garcia." Arte Realizzata. < https://www.arterealizzata.com/interviews/an-exquisite- conversation-with-scherezade-garcia>. Wolff, Leslie. "Café Culture as Decolonial Feminist Praxis: Scherezade Garcia’s Blame...Coffee," Humanities, 10 (1): 35, February 2021. DOI:10.3390/h10010035 Yaniv, Etty. "Scherezade Garcia: Navigating Histories." Artspiel.org, May 17. https://artspiel.org/scherezade-garcia-fabulating-histories/
2020
Dardashti, Abigail Lapin. "Tracing the Ocean: Transnational Movement in Scherezade Garcia's Murals, 1997-2018." In Olga U. Herrera, ed. Scherezade Garcia: From This Side of the Atlantic, Washington, DC: AMA
| Art Museum of the Americas.
Dávila, Arlene. Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics, New York: NYU Press, 2020.
Gómez, Paula. "El arte de Scherezade Garcia, Entrevista para OCA/News." OCA News, 03.23.2020.
Herrera, Olga U. " A Bridge Between Beaty and Tragedy: An Interview with Scherezade Garcia." In Olga U. Herrera, Ed. Scherezade Garcia: From This Side of the Atlantic, Washington, DC: AMA | Art Museum of the Americas. Maroja, Camila. "Menadering Pathways: Tropical Barroquism in the Work of Scherezade Garcia." In Olga U. Herrera, ed. Scherezade Garcia: From This Side of the Atlantic, Washington, DC: AMA | Art Museum of the Americas. Ramirez, Yasmin. "A Personal Commentary: The City and the Sea." In Olga U. Herrera, ed. Scherezade Garcia: From This Side of the Atlantic, Washington, DC: AMA | Art Museum of the Americas.
Stoilas, Helen. "Artist Design Día de los Muertos Altar in Brooklyn for those Who Died During the Pandemic." The Art Newspaper,
Ramos, E. Carmen, ed. ¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now. exh. cat. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2019
Alba, Elia. The Supper Club. New York: Hirrmer Publishers.
"Harlem Postcards Spring 2019—Scherezade Garcia." Studio, The Studio Museum of Harlem Magazine (Spring/summer): 31.
Perrée, Rob and Adam Patterson. A to Z of Caribbean Art. Port of Spain: Robert & Christopher Publishers.
2018
Dardashti, Abigail Lapin. "Borders and Flexibility of Imaginaries." In Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti and their Diasporas. exh. cat. Brooklyn: BRIC.
Goldner, Liz. "Landscapes of Beauty and Oppression: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago at Molaa." Artillery, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Jan-Feb): 54-55.
Lerner, Jesse and Rubén Ortíz-Torres. How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney's Latin America and Latin America's Disney. exh. cat. Los Angeles: Black Dog Publishing.
Lyon, Jacqueline. Inheriting Illegality: Race, Stateless, and Dominican-Haitian Activism in the Dominican Republic, Ph.D. diss. FIU. "Memories Afloat." Small Axe, Vol. 22, No. 2 (56) 175-182.
Reinoza, Tatiana. "The Island within the Island: Remapping Dominican York." Archives of American Art Journal, Volume 57, No. 2 (Fall 2018): 4-27. https://doi.org/10.1086/701175
Velez, Mariel Quiñones. In situ: Visiones del paisaje en las Grandes Antillas. exh. cat. Cayey: Museo de Arte Dr. Pio López Martínez.
2017
Daradshti, Abigial Lapin. "El Dorado: The Neobraroque in Dominican American Art." Diálogo Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1 (March 2017): 73-87.
Dominican Blue Book. New York: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. Flores, Tatiana and Michelle Ann Stephens, eds. Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago. exh. cat. Long Beach: Museum of Latin American Art.
Herrera, Olga U. "Home is Gold!" In Home is Gold! iliana emilia Garcia and Scherezade Garcia. exh. cat. New York: Taller Boricua.
Preza, Claudia and Emily Brostek. "A Contemporary Experience of the Human Condition influenced by Käthe Kollwitz." In RISE. exh. cat. South Organe, NJ: Seton Hall Walsh Gallery.
Reinoza, Tatiana and Maria del Mar Gonzalez. "La Isla como Puente: Reconceptualizando la TRienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan." Ocaiana, Revista de Arte y Cultura, segundo semestre.
2016
Sims, Lowery Stokes. Home, Memory, and Future: Part II/Harlem and Home in the Global Context. exh. cat. New York: Caribbean Cultural Center, African Diaspora Institute.
2015
Cullen, Deborah. In Transit/Liquid Highway. exh. brochure. New York: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University.
Meehan, Megan. "Scherezade Garcia, Interview by 'Examiner.'" AXS Entertainment. 10.04.2015.
Sanders, Sophie. "Scherezade García's Las Aguas Libres—Waters of Freedom. An Installation by Scherezade Garcia." exh.cat. Staten Island, NY: Gallery of the College of Staten Island, CUNY.
2014
Ramos, E. Carmen. Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art. exh. cat. Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum/D Giles Limited.
Zinsli, Beth Ann. "Fragments along the archipelago: photography of the contemporary Spanish Caribbean and its diaspora." PhD diss. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2013
Ledezma, Carolina. "Arte dominicano para la casa de la jueza Sotomayor." El Diario, 01.15.2013
Lockward, Alanna. Towards A Utopian Archeology Moving -Image, descolonization and Continuities in Haiti, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic.
Mazzochi, Sherry. "Sin palabras, todo en impresión, Nueva exhibición explora innovador medio. The Bronx Free Press. 10.09.2013.
Paulino Edward and Scherezade Garcia. "Bearing Witness to Genocide: The 1937 Haitian Massacre and Border of Lights." Afro-Hispanic Review, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Fall 2013): 111-118.
Timpano, Nathan J. ed. Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States. exh.cat. Coral Gables: Lowe Art Museum.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
Banco Popular Art Collection, Santo Domingo, DR
Barceló Colección Pública, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Casa Mella Russo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Centro E. León Jiménez, Santiago, Dominican Republic
The Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian, New York, NY, USA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Colección de Arte de la Dirección General de Aduanas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Fundación Centro de Arte Nouveau, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Fundación Cortés, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Instituto Cariforo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Joan Guaita Art Collection, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Mary Anthony Galleries, New Hope, PA
The Mellon Foundation, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Palacio Nacional de la República Dominicana, Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
The Perez Museum, Miami, FL
Plattsburg State Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
Scherezade García Papers, 1975-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Scherezade García Oral History. Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2006.
Scherezade Garcia, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Archives, City College of New York, CUNY, New York, NY.
SERVICE
National
Selected Jury Panel
2025 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Individual Art fellowship NJ State
Council for the Arts, juror.
2024 Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture, juror.
2021 Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture, juror.
National Endowment for the Arts, reader for the American Rescue
Plan (ARP), evaluator.
National Endowment for the Arts, Grants to Organizations, evaluator.
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Individual Art fellowship NJ State
Council for the Arts, juror.
2016 Joan Mitchell Emerge Grant, juror.
2010 NoMMAA, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Art Grants, juror.
Joan Mitchell Painter & Sculpture Grants, juror.
2005 NoMMAA, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Art Grants, juror
1999 New York Foundation for The Arts, NYFA, Visual Art Grant, NYC
Percent for the Arts, Public Art Commissions, NYC
Board Service
2021-2024 Vice-President of External Relations, College Art Association, New York, NY
2021-2024 Editorial Board Member, Public Art Dialogue Journal, Taylor & Francis.
2022-present Board Member, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
2020-2024 Board of Directors, College Art Association, New York, NY
2018-present Advisory Council, ArtsConnection, New York, NY
University Service
2022-present Committee member of The Landmark.
2023-present Selection Committee. Mellon High Impact Scholars, Artists,
and Journalist Program.
Mentoring
2024-present Faculty for MFA Mentor Fellowship Program
2024-present Graduate Students Committee
2021 Panel for UTeach students Advisory UTASAC
Departmental Service
2025 Committee Chair, Tenure-Track Search for Painting & Drawing
2025 Member of seven MFA Committees reviews
Chair of two MFA students committee reviews: Sasha-Kay Nicole
and Lorena Diosdando
First reader to MFA thesis: Sasha Kay-Hinds, Noah Dasho and Lorena Dasho
2024 Faculty for MFA Mentor Fellowship Program
2024-2025 Chair, Tenure-Track Search for Painting & Drawing
2024 Member of the Visiting Artist Committee Committee
2024 Member of four MFA Committee reviews
Chair of Morgan Grigsby Committee review
2023 Selection committee Entomology Collection: Visual Artist Commission at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Member of six MFA Committees reviews
Chair to three MFA students committee reviews: Javier Robelo, McKanzie Drake and Noah Dasho
Chair to two MFA students committee reviews:
Gabby Constatine and McKenzie Drake
MFA thesis reader: Jennifer Villanueva
2022 Chair, The Roy Crane Award, Three BFA students were awarded
2022 Social Practice Artist In Resident Search
Member of six MFA Committees reviews
Chair to MFA student committee review: McKenzie Drake
2021-2025 Department's Executive Committee
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2022-present ASR Contemporary Art Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic artesanramon.com
2021-2024 IBIS Contemporary Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA (closed)
2019-present Praxis Gallery, New York, NY
praxis-art.com
2015-2019 Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2008-2012 District & Co. Art Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1997-2001 Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY