About

Nicholas Nakai Garcia is an artist, writer, and musician from Boulder, CO. He received his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.

Fine Art C.V.

Group Shows

2024 - Burnout Society, Room220, Denver, CO.

2024 - Mudd Club, Pon Pon, Denver, CO.

2024 - Grass Is Greener, Pirate Contemporary, Denver, CO.

2024 - Laugh Lines, Union Hall, Denver, CO.

2016 - Senior Thesis, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL.

2013 - The Tethers, Halstead Gallery, group show, Chicago, IL.

2012 - Payaso, The Coffee House (with Jason Abrams), Denver, CO.

2011 - Senior Thesis, Red Line Gallery, Denver, CO.

Screenwriting

2024 - Roll the Bones (Feature script), second-rounder, AFF Screenwriting Competition.

2023 - Shards of the Dammerom (pilot), second-rounder, AFF Screenwriting Competition.

2017 - Obsidian Surfer (pilot), second-rounder, AFF Screenwriting Competition.

2016 - Dark Matter (short film), Gene Siskel Theater, Chicago, IL.

Literature

2022 - It Is Water Though It’s Frozen (short) published by Expat Press.

2019 - Curse of Ham (flash) republished by Best Small Fictions of 2019.

2019 - Humanity Declaration (short) published by Cagibi Magazine.

2019 - Guest Editor for Driftwood Press 5.2.

2018 - Curse of Ham (flash) published with feature interview by Driftwood Press.

2016 - Hard Drive Of Our Memory (flash essay) published by 1888 Magazine.

Education

2016 - BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2011 - Denver School of the Arts (major in Visual Art).