Harold Garcia V (El Quinto)
Bio: Harold Garcia V (El Quinto) (b. 1985, Havana, 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.
Garcia has been featured in significant institutional exhibitions, including “Water Ways: Indigenous Ecologies and Florida Heritage” at the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts (2025); “Past as Prologue: A Historical Acknowledgment, Part II” at the National Academy of Design (2025); “Guilt-Ridden Landscape” at the United Nations (2022); and “ARTxiomas” at the OAS AMA Art Museum of the Americas (2016). His solo exhibition, “Welcome to the Everglades” (2021), at the Thomas Nickles Project, was accompanied by the United Nations Documentation and Division Lecture Series.
First Year Exhibition
Harold Garcia V (El Quinto)
The Heron’s Silent Song, 2025
Molasses silkscreen on canvas, oriented strand board (OSB), pool tiles, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), concrete blocks, ratchet straps, caster wheels, pool noodles, metal rods, metal wires, heron taxidermy leg, treated crystalized molasses, rebar, and feathers
Courtesy of the artist