Guillermo García was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and resides in Dubai. His artistic formation included attending the Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay; Advanced Painting at the Washington Studio School and Drawing and Painting in Contemporary Art at Corcoran College of Art, Washington, DC.; and the National School of Fine Arts in Montevideo, Uruguay. In addition, he is a professor of Visual Art at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas in Montevideo, Uruguay.

His work can be found in many collections worldwide, among those Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (CIFO), Northwestern University Collection, Chicago, USA; Luis Bassat Collection, Barcelona, Spain; Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami, Florida, USA; Alberto Rebaza Collection, Lima, Perú; and DiGood Collection, Madrid, Spain. His works have been featured in several publications, including a feature by ARTnews during Sao Paulo’s SP-Arte 2023, among the best pieces in the fair.

García Cruz’s work uses a novel approach to replicating how images are perceived. His work looks like it was a computer error or glitch in its pixeled look. He also uses primary software colors in some of his paintings, reinforcing that idea. He says that his “current body of work seeks to question what happens in a variety of fields during this moment of change, when we all feel a little bit disoriented, anxious, or curious about what is about to occur.”

During his residency, García Cruz will develop a project in which he will create a series of works from these ideas.