Camille Rose Garcia
About
Camille Rose Garcia is a California-based artist known for her lowbrow/pop surrealism style, characterized by goth subculture cartoon imagery that blends nostalgic pop culture references with satirical critiques of capitalist utopias, violence, and modern society. Born in 1970 in Los Angeles to a Mexican activist filmmaker father and a muralist mother, she apprenticed with her mother on murals in Orange County suburbs, frequented Disneyland, and immersed herself in punk culture. After earning a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 1992 and an MFA from the University of California at Davis in 1994, she felt disillusioned by art school, returned to Huntington Beach, and formed the punk band The Real Minx before transitioning to illustration and fine art in the late 1990s.
Lowbrow/pop surrealism with goth cartoon style
Selected Exhibitions
- Tragic Kingdom (San Jose Museum of Art retrospective, 2007)
- Black Moon (Los Angeles, 2013)
- Camille Rose Garcia: Down the Rabbit Hole (Walt Disney Family Museum)
- Art from the New World (Bristol City Museum)
- Pop Surrealism (Museum of Visual Arts Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy)
- Cross The Streets (MACRO Museum, Rome, 2017)
Awards
- Honored at Art Basel Miami by Maestro Dobel Tequila (2018)