Gabriel Garcia Roman

Gabriel currently resides and works in New York City. He was born in the high deserts of Zacatecas, Mexico and raised on Chicago's north side. His family immigrated to the states when he was two years old. It wasn't until his mid 20s that  he started "making art". When he discovered photography, his life was changed. 

He returned to school when he was 33 and received his B.A. from The City College of New York where he studied studio art.  As an artist, he has constantly looked for ways to counteract the flatness that’s inherent to the medium of photography: weaving, folding, cutting, interlacing prints or collaging are all different attempts at realizing that goal.

Garcia Roman is a multi-disciplinary artist and craftsman who examines and decodes the politics of identity through intricate and process-based work. His art has been acquired by the International Center of Photography and has been shown at the Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach, CA), Galería de la Raza (San Francisco, CA), Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, NY), the Center for Photography at Woodstock (Woodstock, NY), BRIC (Brooklyn, NY), and numerous other institutions and galleries.

He was a 2018 recipient of the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture’s artist grant and in 2019 was commissioned by the Leslie-Lohman Museum to bring his Queer Icons series into the streets for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots where 100 Queer Icons flags were marched down the World Pride route. In 2020, Garcia Roman was one of 10 artists in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for Workspace, their flagship residency program.