Moira Garcia: Xochiyotl: Florescence

“My practice is a continuum of ancestral remembering—of what ceases to be dismembered, buried, and forgotten,” says New Mexican Chicana artist Moira Garcia. By recreating aesthetic qualities, materials, design, and iconographies rooted in pre-Hispanic Mexican legacies and Nahuatl language, Garcia seeks to reexpose artistic traditions that were destroyed during colonization and which remain largely unrecognized in contemporary culture.

Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and native of New Mexico. She holds a BFA in Studio Arts with a focus in Printmaking from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and an MA in Latin American Studies with concentrations in Art History and Indigenous Studies from the University of New Mexico. Her academic background forms a strong foundation for her artistic practice, enriching her visual ability with a wealth of linguistic and historical knowledge. Her work is a visible language of symbol, color, and metaphor that references and interprets ancient visual culture and cosmologies, tracing paths of connection with the present day.