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Prepare for Art Visit with Luis Garcia.

Artist Luis Garcia lives and works in Oakland, California.

Luis Garcia is a Mayan-Pipil, Oakland-based artist.  Luis graduated from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 2002 with Honors, earning an individualized B.F.A. combining Painting and Sculpture. His work has been exhibited at various esteemed venues: Chico Museum of Northern California, Marin MOCA, Mission Cultural Center, Galleria de la Raza, SOMARTs, Berkeley Art Center, and he was the inaugural Artist in Residence at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art.  Luis is a current member, award winner, and exhibiting artist of Marin MOCA, and most recently Curated his first Museum Exhibition at Marin MOCA.  Luis has recently exhibited work at the de Young museum in San Francisco, in the magnificent exhibition ‘de Young Open’, 2020.  This was Luis’ second time exhibiting at de Young, the first time he exhibited there was in 2007 in a group Exhibition for Dia de Los Muertos.

Learn more about Luis.
http://luismayanman.wix.com/mayanmanart

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Awards/Accolades

  • Artist in Residence, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA (Sept 2016)
  • Placed 3rd in Juried Competition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato CA (Jan 2020)
  • The de Young Open, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (Nov 2020)

 

Solo Exhibits

  • K’ Uh Poetry, Inkblot Gallery, Alameda, CA (Jul.  2019)
  • Metamorphose, Marin Museum of Contemporary Arts, Marin, CA (Dec. 2017)
  • Now, Fireside Lounge, Alameda, CA (June 2016)
  • In It We Find Ourselves, C.C.A., San Francisco, CA (June 2002)
  • Inward / Outward, C.C.A., Oakland, CA (Jan  1998)
  • Solo Show, Tassajara Bakery, San Francisco, CA (Nov. 1997)