STEPHANIE GARCÍA
artist
BIO
Stephanie is a multi-awarded Mexican artist, producer, arts administrator, and independent curator working in the USA and Mexico. Dance, video, choreography, film, and performance art are the mediums in which García intervenes in the audiences’ realities that witness her work. She is co-founder and co-director of Punto de Inflexión Dance Company and PROArtes México. She has worked with important Mexican and international choreographers, performed in relevant dance festivals and venues in Mexico and 11 countries in America, Europe, and Africa, and created more than 30 original interdisciplinary pieces presented in the USA, Mexico, Cyprus, Ireland, Peru, Panama, Spain, and Cuba. Her work has received grants and funds from Mexican, USA, Ibero-American, Dutch, and Canadian institutions. Last April, Stephanie was appointed part of the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows.
Since 2008, Stephanie has been working as an arts advocate, work she continues co-directing PROArtes México, whose mission is to support the creation/promotion of exemplary contemporary Mexican art and foster the bilateral international exchange. Since then, she has facilitated local and international art collaborations between Mexican artists and countries like Uruguay, Cuba, Panama, Brazil, Israel, Spain, Austria, Peru, Colombia, Tunisia, and the US. Furthermore, since 2016, she has founded, curated, and participated in various video dance festivals, platforms, and events in Mexico and abroad, being the most relevant being the recent foundation of Corriente Alterna, a live arts platform inaugurated last April 2025.
García holds an MFA in Modern Dance and a Screendance Certificate from the University of Utah, a BFA and an AA in Contemporary Dance from the National Fine Arts Institute in Mexico, and studies in Cultural and Arts Administration from Guadalajara University, American States Organization, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, and the National Arts Center.
She is a RED U40 México, Latinx Hispanic Dancers United, The Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network (CIEG/Yale) Member, and recently joined the International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM).