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San Francisco artist Carmen Lomas Garza was born in Kingsville, Texas in 1948, the second of five siblings.
The initial roots of her artwork lay in her family, to who she is close to, and in the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s
She experienced lots of racism growing up and she was not allowed to speak Spanish in school. Mexican-American children faced racial discrimination on a daily basis. For speaking Spanish, they were physically punished by the teachers and verbally abused by their classmates
Such obvious mistreatment compelled Garza’s parents to join the American GI Forum, a World War II Veterans’ organization of Mexican Americans campaigning for civil rights. Their activism inspired Garza to join the Chicano Movement, of which she first became aware when the United Farm Workers marched in Kingsville in 1965.
At the age of thirteen, Garza made a lifelong commitment to become an artist, teaching herself to draw when art classes were not offered in school.
The public education system in this rural South Texas town had other shortcomings
Garza was attending Texas Arts & Industry University (now Texas A & M) and involved with the Mexican American Youth Organization, when she began to formulate the philosophy of her art. Affirmation, rather than resistance, became her agent for change. Since then, her artistic focus has been to celebrate and take pride in Mexican-American communities, families, history, and culture, drawing strength as well from the feminist movement.
After graduating with a B.S. in 1972, Garza earned her M.Ed. from Juarez-
Lincoln/Antioch Graduate School in Austin, Texas in 1973. In the mid-1970s, she moved to San Francisco to work at Galeria de la Raza, and in 1981 earned an M.A. from San Francisco State University.
Garza creates paintings about the everyday events in the lives of Mexican Americans based on her memories and experiences in South Texas.
She has had solo exhibitions at San Francisco’s Mexican Museum; the Laguna Gloria Art Museum in Austin, Texas; the Hirshhorn Museum, and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her work is widely collected.
Carmen Lomas Garza currently lives in San Francisco.

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