Caroline Garcia

When

September 20 – November 2, 2025 All Day

Where

Glyndor Gallery

Price

Free

with admission to the grounds

Caroline Garcia’s Sunroom exhibition expands on research that the artist originally conducted at Wave Hill as a Winter Workspace resident in 2022. Interested in the ethnobotany of the Philippines, as well as native plants growing at Wave Hill, Garcia focused on toxic plants used to make arrow poison (applied to the tips of darts, spears and arrows). For her 2025 Sunroom exhibition, she explores the Indigenous history of the area now known as Wave Hill, focusing on the unique tools and weapons used by the First Americans—crafted from natural materials sourced from their environment. To add a contemporary layer, plastic would be the most common material available today. As an artist who works in 3D-printing, Garcia has connected with Precious Plastics NYC, an open hardware plastic recycling project, to recycle printing scraps. Interweaving these materials with Indigenous practices, the artist merges a historical narrative with a contemporary context, while experimenting with techniques and materials that reflect on colonial histories in relationship to botany, resistance and self-defense.

Caroline Garcia

Caroline Garcia

Caroline Garcia is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York, working across performance, moving image and installation. Garcia’s cross-cultural and research-based practice combines ethno-traditional forms of knowledge (such as dance, botany, poetry and ceramics) with digital technologies (including green screening, robotics, motion capture, extended realities (AR/VR) and 3D processes). Garcia has presented work in New York at The SHED, Lincoln Center, Apexart, Creative Time Summit X & HQ, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Smack Mellon and The Vera List Center, among others; and internationally at The Sydney Opera House and Museum of Contemporary Art in Australia; Manila Biennale, Philippines; Art Central Hong Kong and Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Kallithea, Greece; Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany; and Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria. She is the recipient of a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship: Digital/Electronic Arts, New York Artadia Award, Franklin Furnace Fund and the American Australian Association’s AUSART Fellowship. Garcia has participated in residencies at Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer, International Studio and Curatorial Program, Pioneer Works, Institute for Electronic Arts (Experimental Projects), Recess Arts and Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, all in New York. She earned an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School of Art, Media, and Technology, New York. Learn more about the artist at https://carolinegarcia.com.au/.
Photo: Alex Wisser.