Biography

Justin Garcia, Born Houstonian, is a time architect, influenced by the timeless connection between art and science studied by DaVinci. His lifelong fascination with aging and how change occurs over time led him to undergo a deep self-psychoanalysis through the abstraction of his first seven series spanning over a decade.

All of Garcia’s earlier works are pieces of a larger puzzle. To analyze, document, and assemble this puzzle, he took two years away from the art scene, several months of which he spent isolated in central Mexico. There, he mapped and constructed a theoretical model that captures the intersection of experience, awareness, and control across time and subject matter (Humanity’s Sustainable Infinite (HSI)).

In late 2015, he announced the completion and publication of his first book, One Ton Goldfish: In Search of the Tangible Dream, a retrospective of his seven series in which Garcia’s personal truth carried some universal meaning that lead to the creation of his theoretical model and latest works. After using his art as a way to explore how the constant stream of receiving and projecting information changes objects over time, Garcia began delving into the human psyche’s perception of time through the concept of an aging wall.

“Walls of Time,” his eighth and most recent series, focuses on the complexity of time and the human perception of it through the simplicity of aging walls as architectural structures representing reality.

Since his latest Series, Garcia has been invited and featured at the Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Seattle art fair, and the Florence Biennale that honored the centennial of Leonardo Da Vinci in that years exhibition. There he was also a guest lecture on the topic of art and science, and awarded the Medici medal for his exhibition of “Walls of Time” and science theory. “Walls of Time,” his eighth and most recent series, focuses on the complexity of time and the human perception of it through the simplicity of aging walls as architectural structures representing reality.

 

2021    New Works: Study of Time Through Human Perception, One Park Place, Houston TX

2019   Humanity’s Sustainable Infinite, Glade Cultural Center, Woodlands, TX

2017   Time Machine: Through the Walls of a Time Traveler, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX

2016   Walls of Time: Down the Rabbit Hole and Back, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX

STOP – listen  and collaborate!, Pop-Up Museum in conjunction with The History of Houston’s Musical   Soul, 6th Annual Houston History Alliance Conference, MATCH Box  3, Houston, TX

It’s About Time, Silver Street Studios, Houston, TX

2015   A Night at the Edmont, Grant Gordon Foundation Fundraiser, Edmont, 1634    Westheimer, Houston, TX

2014   One Ton Goldfish: In Search of the Tangible Dream; Book Launch and Exhibition – 7: Unlayered, Silver

Street Studios, Houston, TX

2012   Reflection, Wade Wilson Art Gallery, Houston, TX

Introduction, Wade Wilson Art Gallery – Santa Fe, NM

2011   Introducing Justin Garcia, Wade Wilson Art Gallery, Houston TX

2010   New Works, Tipping Point, Houston, TX

New Works, McWhorter Fine Art Gallery, Houston TX

2009   New Works, Muir Fine Art Gallery, Houston, TX

Introducing Justin Garcia, Lampros Gallery, Woodlands, TX

 

Group Selected Exhibits

2021   Inspirational, The Influence of Place, ART1307 Cult. Inst. at Museo Ercolanense Portici- Napoli Italy; Curated by Cynthia Penna

Unbroken: Cross Currents and Contemporary Time, Art Emerge Gallery, Los Angeles CA; Curated by Jennifer Chi, phd

2019   Spectrum, Art Basel, Miami, FL

Liquid n Lights installation, TX Contemporary, Houston, TX

Seattle Art Fair, Phylogeny Contemporary Gallery, Seattle, WA

Ars Et Ingenium, XII Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Group; Dr. Melanie Zefferino

Personal Structures, European Cultural Centre Biennale Arte, Venice, Italy

2017   Los Latinos de Tejas Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA), Lubbock, TX, Group;

Curated by Linda Cullum

Colore, Winter Street Studio, Houston TX, Group; Curated by Serrano Gallery

Assistants League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston TX, Group; Curator: Sally Sprout, Juror: Jose Esparza Chong Cuy

2016   Artist of Sawyer Yards, Silver Street Studios, Houston TX, Group; Curator/Juror: Clint Willour

Black and White, Mixed Emotion, Houston TX, Three Person Exhibition:

Joe Aker, Justin Garcia, Al Heilman; Curated by Paula Siegel

Ten-ants, Serrano Gallery, Houston, TX, Group, Curated by Valentina Atkinson

2015   Dos Amigos Nuevamente, Adickes Studio, Houston TX, Two-Person Exhibition: David Adickes & Justin Garcia

2013   Tres Impasto, Wade Wilson Art Gallery, Houston, TX; Three-Person Exhibition: Hans de Bruijn, Justin Garcia, & Tomas Glass

30th Juried Open Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston TX; Juror: Diane Barber

2012   Texas Contemporary Art Fair, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX; Wade Wilson Art Gallery

Houston Fine Art Fair, Reliant Center, Houston TX; Wade Wilson Art Gallery

Art Houston, Wade Wilson Art Gallery; Two-Person Exhibition: Justin Garcia & Winston Mascareenahs

29th Juried Open Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston TX; Juror: Wade Wilson

Deux Amis, Sculpturworx Studio, Houston TX; Two-Person Exhibition: David Adickes & Justin Garcia

Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, TX; Wade Wilson Art Gallery

Spectrum, FotoFest, Hardy Nance Street Studios, Houston TX

2011   Houston Contemporary Art Fair, Wade Wilson Art Gallery stall, Houston, TX

On the Edge of New: New Paintings by New Artists, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX

Art on Loan, City Hall, City of Houston, TX

2010   Black and White, McWhorter Gallery, Houston, TX

Artists for Haiti, Laura Rathe Gallery, Houston, TX

Continuum, in conjunction with FotoFest Biennial 2010, Hardy Nance Street Studios, Houston, TX

2009   Blow Up Houston, Aerosol Warfare Gallery, Houston, TX