Alixa García is a Colombian born, globally-raised, multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and cultural activator whose work is imbued in ritual, spirit, and deep reverence for our Great Mother, Great Lover, our Earth. She is an award-winning activist, poet, and filmmaker. She is also a professional writer, visual artist, musician, and facilitator. Her work has been published by Whit Press, AK Press, Hatchett, & Daraja Press.
As a visual artist García has exhibited her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; CA; the Kunsthal KAdE Museum, Netherlands; the Pop-Up Museum, New York, New York; and the Manifest Justice Exhibition, Los Angeles, alongside Hank Willis Thomas and Shepard Fairey, among other world-renown artists. She has created large-scale murals in New York City, Cuba, and Jamaica, and was commissioned for a large scale mural by Tony Award-winning playwright, V (formerly Eve Ensler). García is a visual art awardee of the Global Arts Fund/Astrea, The National Association of Latino Arts & Culture Grant, The Rising Fund, and the V-Day Fund. She has been the recipient of multiple prestigious artist residencies including the Silver Arts Residency, Blue Mountain Center, and Omega Institute. She is an editorial board member of ERA Coalition & Fund for Women’s Equality.
In 2020 García was commissioned by Times Square Arts Alliance to create a piece for “Massages for the City” in honor of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The animation Superheroes Never Die was up on the Times Square mega-screens, as well as 1,800 LinkNYC kiosks and digital billboards across the 5 NYC boroughs, Boston, and Chicago. The piece was later commissioned by the Mint Museum in North Carolina. García has also been commissioned by Alicia Garza’s Lady Don’t Take No, Black Future Labs, For Freedoms, Wide Awakes, Education for Racial Equity, to name a few.
Alixa García is the Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director of Climbing PoeTree, an internationally-renowned, award-winning social justice spoken word, hip-hop, and world music duo. Touring the globe, García has presented and performed at the The United Nations, T.E.D: Ideas Worth Spreading; on the main stage at Lightning in a Bottle, Eclipse, and Symbiosis music festivals; and In 2016 she performed on the main stage at the Women’s March for over 500K people on the streets of Washington D.C., a performance televised to millions world-wide.