Harold Garcia V (El Quinto) (b. Cuba) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in New York whose work examines ecological precarity, colonial legacies, and the politics of landscape, with a particular focus on South Florida’s Everglades. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA in painting from the San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy in Havana, Cuba.


Contact: hg2724@columbia.edu

@haroldgarciav


Education

2026    MFA, Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY
2004    BFA, San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy, Havana, Cuba


Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2022    A Guilt-Ridden Landscape, United Nations, New York, NY
2021    Welcome to the Everglades, Thomas Nickles Project, New York, NY
2019    On the Altars of Vanity, Dotfiftyone Gallery, Miami, FL
2016    Living with the Past, haaaauch-quer Gallery, Klagenfurt, Austria


Selected Group Exhibitions

2026    MFA Thesis, Wallach Gallery, Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY
2026    Water Ways: Indigenous Ecologies and Florida Heritage, MoFA FSU, Tallahassee, FL
2025    Fault Lines, The Blanc, New York, NY
2025    Signal Whispers, Tramps, New York, NY
2025    MFA 1st Year Exhibition, Wallach Gallery, Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY
2025    WITNESS: Alternative Portraits, Speciwoman, LaForce Projects, NY
2025    Past as Prologue: A Historical Acknowledgment, Part II, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2025    Celestial Navigation, Columbia University Butler Library, New York, NY
2022    Cuba Introspettiva, Flash Back Habitat, Turin, Italy
2017     Mala Yerba, Fotografía Cubana Contemporánea, ISOLO17 Gallery, Verona, Italy
2017     Mediadores que Marcan Experiencias (Cuba Edition), a project in collaboration with the 7th Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art Un ensayo de colaboración (CDAV), Havana, Cuba
2016     Presentation of artists in residence (artist guest). KulturKontakt, Concordiaplatz, Vienna, Austria
2016     ART-XIOMAS, CUBA AHORA: The Next Generation. OAS AMA, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC, DC


Residencies:

2022   Cuban Artists Fund’s artist-in-residence, New York, NY.



Professional Experience

2025    Teaching assistant, Columbia University, New York, NY.
2023    Teaching Artist, Education Department, Queens Museum, NY.





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