Kevin Garcia

Kevin Garcia’s art work is a reflection of his own cultural fusion. Born and raised in Mineola, NY, as a first-generation American of Colombian descent, Kevin’s background has greatly impacted the varied themes and media reflected in his art. One of his earliest memories of a trip back to Colombia, was being the sole person repeatedly awoken by a rooster’s crow in the early morning hourson an Uncle’s farm. As a child, the sound was awe-inspiring, and in some way, came to represent his connection to the foreign land. Over the years, the rooster became an intimate symbol for Kevin, using it interchangeably in his art work to express human action and emotion.

Kevin’s love of art and travel resulted in early exposure to Mexican and South American indigenous art and sculpture. He found an attraction for such work, and later on, to the similarities he could find between it and ancient Asian deity art. In his piece, Untitled, inspired by the images and colors depicted in ancient Tibetan theologic art, he explores the potential wrath of God.

In The Atom, he utilizes science to explore the individual’s place as part of a larger organism. No matter how disparate the pieces may seem- a rooster as the nucleus of an atom- the piece...

SUNY Stony Brook, Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, 2000
Chautauqua Schools of Fine and Performing Arts, 2002

2023 - SOMOS Exhibition, Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY
2018 - Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 - The Outsider Art Fair , Onward Exhibition, NY
2017 - Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2015 - Solar Latin America Art & Design , East Hampton , NY
2010 – Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
2009 – Walt Whitman Birth Place Museum, Huntington, NY
2009 – North American Gold Group, Islip, NY
2008 – Gallery 4222, Port Jefferson, NY
2006 – Walt Whitman Birth Place Museum, Huntington, NY
2002 – Logan Gallery, Chautauqua, NY
2002 – Annual Winter Arts Celebration, Miller Place Inn, Miller Place, NY
2000 – Staller Center Gallery, Stony Brook, NY