Evan Garza and Pepe Mar will be in conversation on the artist’s practice as well as his current solo exhibition at David Castillo “My First 25,000 Years on Earth”. Garza contributed one of the essays to a forthcoming scholarly publication on Pepe Mar published by Tampa Museum of Art (2025)
A Texas native, Evan Garza is a global contemporary art scholar, queer art historian, and Curator at MASS MoCA. For the last two years, Garza was an inaugural Curatorial Exchange Initiative Fellow at MASS MoCA, where they curated the current exhibition Steve Locke: the fire next time. Garza was previously a Fulbright Scholar at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, co-curator of the 2021 Texas Biennial, Director of Public Art at Rice University in Houston, and Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. Garza was cofounder of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), a New York nonprofit and the first residency program in the world exclusively for LGBTQ+ artists. Their writing has been published in several books and monographs and by Flash Art International, Art Papers, and Artforum. Garza earned their M.A. from the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute.
