Scherezade García-Vazquez

Scherezade García-Vazquez is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art (Painting & Drawing) at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work explores allegories of history, migration, collective memory, and cultural colonization through painting, printmaking, and installation art. She holds an AAS from Altos de Chavón School of Design, a BFA from Parsons School of Design | The New School, and an MFA from The City College of New York, CUNY.

Her research interests center on cross-cultural narratives, diasporic identities, and the intersection of art with political and social history. Key exhibitions include solo/duo shows at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Museum of the Americas, and Lehman College Art Gallery. Her work is in permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and others.

Awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2015) and Colene Brown Art Prize (2020), she is a member of the Artist Advisory Council of Arts Connection and the College Art Association Board of Directors (2020–2024). Her edited monograph Scherezade García: From This Side of the Atlantic (2020) critically examines her artistic practice.