About

Rebeca García-González is an award-winning visual artist and long-term resident of Richmond, CA. Her interest in the visual arts began early, at a public school for the arts and after receiving a scholarship at the Art Students League of San Juan, Puerto Rico. She earned a BFA at the University of Puerto Rico, where she studied printmaking and painted murals. García-González then came to the Bay Area and studied graphic design at the Academy of Art.

While García-González’s painting is best-known through her public art and portraits of undocumented immigrants, her landscapes of the East Bay have earned awards and are part of many private collections. Her 2018 solo show featured portraits of post-Maria Puerto Ricans, completed during a six-week trip to the island and financed via a Kickstarter campaign. She is currently working on a portrait series of Richmond activists. García-González’s murals can be found all around Richmond, where she has painted with local youth in collaboration with several non-profits. Some have social justice themes, others respond to the needs of the community. She has been commissioned by the Friends of the Richmond Greenway, Police Activities League, Watershed Project, and East Bay Community Foundation.