Lilian Garcia-Roig - September-October 2025

Lilian Garcia-Roig is a Cuban-born, Texas-raised Latinx artist living and working in Tallahassee, Florida where she is a distinguished Professor at FSU. She is most known for her perceptually based, large-scale, “all-day” cumulative paintings that formally interweave the illusionist possibilities painting with its abstract material nature. On a personal level, her on-site works have been about negotiating the complex propositions of sense of place & belonging which influence the construction of identity. In 2021, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow. Other significant awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, Blackwell Prize in Painting, State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, M-AAA/NEA Fellowship, and Kimbrough Award (Dallas Museum of Art). Residencies include Skowhegan, Joan Mitchell Center, MacDowell, Art Omi, and Millay. Garcia-Roig has shown extensively across the U.S. including at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and in exhibitions such as “Relational Undercurrents”, the “Florida Prize”, and the permanent collection of the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).

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