Elisa Garcia de la Huerta was born 1983 in Santiago, Chile. She is an interdisciplinary artist and holistic Ayurveda practitioner. She received her BFA at Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile in 2006 and her MFA Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2011.
She is co-leader of Go! Push Pops, a queer transnational feminist performance art collective. Elisa has shown her art and performances at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Whitney Museum, The Untitled Space, C24 Gallery, Momenta Art and Soho20 Gallery in New York, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Historico Militar and Galeria Artespacio in Santiago, Chile and the Select Art Fair at Miami Basel, among others. She was nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Visual Arts Grant and has obtained a Brooklyn Arts Council Grant and the Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice for her work with Go! Push Pops. Her work has been featured in Dazed and Confused, Huffington Post, Japan Times, ArtSlant, Hyperallergic, Paper Magazine, Interview Magazine, and many more publications. Garcia has been an Artist-in-Residence at Alexandra Arts in Manchester, England, Soho20 in New York City, The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland as well as in Havana, Cuba in 2003 and London, England in 2007. She performed in Tokyo, Japan with Go! Push Pops as part of a US/Japan exchange fellowship in 2015.
Her work was featured in our group shows BODY BEAUTIFUL, EDEN(SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW 2019), ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE, SECRET GARDEN, SHE INSPIRES, and In The Raw: The Female Gaze on The Nude.
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