Danielle Garcia

Danielle Garcia (they/she or siya [SHAH] in Tagalog) is a Filipino-American artist — born in Las Piñas City, Philippines and raised in Jacksonville, Florida — who practices traditional illustration, creative writing, acting, and modeling. Garcia explores questions of identity, history, and heritage through the lens of queerness in the Filipino diaspora, modern spirituality, and the superimposition of personal/collective past, present, and future. Garcia graduated magna cum laude from the University of Florida in 2018 with a B.A. in art history; by senior year, they had co-created the School of Art+Art History’s student publication Dinner + No Show; completed curatorial internships at the Harn Museum of Art and Princeton University Art Museum; and published their honors thesis in the UF Journal of Undergraduate Research. Garcia went on to work full-time as a museum educator for the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens and, most recently, the inaugural Director of Arts Education for the St. Petersburg Warehouse Arts District Association. Garcia is currently based in Queens, New York.