Biography
Havana
Osvaldo García was born in Havana, Cuba, and has never left. That fact — so simple to state, so complicated to fully understand — is the invisible frame around everything he makes. He lives and works on an island that demands a particular kind of endurance from its artists, and he has responded to that demand not with resignation but with an almost defiant richness of output.
He began drawing as a child, filling whatever paper he could find with figures that seemed to emerge from somewhere beneath conscious thought — faces, bodies, forms that were human and yet not entirely. That compulsion never left him. It simply grew more refined, more demanding, more his own.
Training & Formation
García received his formal training in Havana under instructors who demanded both rigorous technical discipline and genuine artistic courage. It was there that he developed his characteristic relationship with the human figure — not as a subject to be recorded, but as a force to be interrogated. The body in his work is never simply a body. It is a site of tension, transformation, and sometimes grief.
Alongside the drawings, he began working in oil — a medium that demanded something different from him. Where the drawings are an act of subtraction, of finding what remains when everything unnecessary is removed, the paintings are an act of accumulation. Layer upon layer, myth woven into nature, color arguing with itself across the canvas.
The Work & the Distance
There is a particular irony — or perhaps a particular logic — in the fact that Osvaldo García's work is better known outside Cuba than within it. His drawings and paintings have found their way into private collections across the United States, Europe, and Latin America, carried by collectors, friends, and admirers who recognized in them something that transcends the circumstances of their making.
The work travels. The artist stays. That distance has become part of the work itself — a tension between rootedness and reach that gives every piece a charge it might not otherwise carry. To own a García is to hold something that cost more than money to make.
Exhibitions
- 2024 Group Exhibition · Miami Art Week, Miami, FL
- 2022 Solo Exhibition · Coral Gables Gallery, Miami, FL
- 2019 Group Exhibition · Latin American Art Fair, Miami, FL
- 2015 Solo Exhibition · Private Gallery, Brickell, Miami, FL
- 2010 Group Exhibition · Cuban-American Artists Collective, Miami, FL
Collections & Commissions
Works by Osvaldo García are held in private collections throughout the United States, Spain, Argentina, and Cuba. He accepts commissions for both drawings and paintings, and distance is never a barrier — many of his most meaningful collaborations have happened across borders, by phone and by trust. To discuss acquiring a work or commissioning a new piece, please call (786) 265-9211 or reach out through the .
