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One of the leading artists in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early ’70s, Rupert Garcia participated in the formation of several seminal West Coast civil rights movement-oriented workshops and collectives. He helped to found the San Francisco Poster Workshop, which had been forced off the San Francisco State University campus during the Vietnam War and concurrent civil rights protests.
Garcia’s early work was primarily in the medium of silkscreen poster art, in which he developed a unique and colorful style of portraiture. From his earliest work, he expressed a commitment to the democratic and nationalist ideals of the Chicano Movement and created images in solidarity with other liberation movements, especially those in Indochina, Cuba and even Native American communities in the United States.
Garcia’s work has been exhibited in such major institutions as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Mexican Museum. The bulk of Garcia’s work is housed in the National Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.