Scherezade García

She served on the faculty of Parsons School of Design from 2010 to 2021. She joined the University of Texas at Austin as Assistant Professor of Art in 2021. In 2015, she received a career grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Much of García's work deals with themes relating to themes of history, colonially and Afro-Atlantic legacies; her art is informed by aspects of her black and European heritage. Four of her mixed-media works are in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Other works may be found in the collections of El Museo del Barrio, the Housatonic Museum of Art, and the Museo de Arte Moderno Santo Domingo.

Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, García has been active in the visual arts from the time she was a child. After graduating with an AAS from the Altos de Chavón School of Design, a Parsons affiliate, in La Romana, Dominican Republic in 1986, she won a full merit scholarship to attend Parsons School of Design in New York City. She received a BFA cum laude from Parsons in 1988 and completed an MFA in Sculpture at City College of New York in 2011. Since 1986, she has lived and worked in New York. She is the sister of artist iliana emilia García.

Scherezade García (sometimes Scherezade García-Vázquez) (born 1966) is a Dominican-born, American painter, printmaker, and installation artist. She is a co-founder of the Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA Collective. García is an Advisor to the Board of Directors of No Longer Empty and sits on the board of directors of the College Art Association (CAA) for the period of 2020–2024. She is assistant professor of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Austin, Texas and is represented by Praxis Art in New York, and Ibis Contemporary Art Gallery in New Orleans.