Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1970
iliana emilia García is a drawer, painter, printmaker, and installation artist who works in large format drawings on canvas and paper and escalating installations depicting her most iconic symbol: the chair. Her work often 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.