iliana emilia García is a multimedia artist whose practice spans drawing, painting, printmaking, and installations. She often works in large format drawings on canvas and paper and escalating installations depicting her most iconic symbol: the chair. Her work explores concepts of emotional history, collective and ancestral memory, and intimacy. A co-founder of the Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA, she holds an AAS from Altos de Chavón School of Design, a BFA from Parsons School of Design | The New School, and an MA in Biography and Memoir from The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Her work has been written about in numerous art publications and catalogues. García has been featured in solo and duo exhibitions at the Art Museum of the Americas, Taller Boricua, Hostos Community College, New York, and exhibited at BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; Exit Art, NY; No Longer Empty at Sugar Hill, NY; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; El Museo del Barrio, NY; Aljira Center of Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; Leonora Vega Gallery, NY; Howard Scott Gallery, NY; NOMAA, NY; Joan Guaita, Spain; the 3rd Triennial Poli-Grafica, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Barnard College, NY; Museo de Arte Moderno de El Salvador and many other venues. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Blanton Museum of Art, Texas, Museo Bellapart, El Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo, and others.
