1993-95 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (MFA)

1991 Middlesex Polytechnic-Quicksilver Place, London, England (Exchange Program)

1989-92 University of Houston, Houston, Texas (Concentration: Painting)

1984-88 Austin College Sherman, Texas (BA Psychology, BA Art)

Solo Exhibtions

2002 "Six Heads, Indoors" The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

2001 Three Walls, San Antonio, TX

1997 "Amerika" International Gallery of Snorri Asmundsson, Akureyri, Iceland

1996 Calculator Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012

"Artist of the Week" 20x200, New York, NY

2009

"The Cursed Chateau" Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN

2008

"Artist of the Week" 20x200, New York, NY

2007

"Abstract" Eleanor Cayre, Long Branch, NJ

2005

"A Mycological Exploration" V-Gun, Portland OR

"Bam! Boom! Bang!!!" Morsel, Brooklyn NY

2004

"Semi-Lucid" White Columns, New York, NY

"Wurst Eigenhaut Special Nr. 3" Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2003

"Sasquatch Feng Shui" The Portland Building, Portland, OR

"After Matisse-Picasso" PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY

"Pink Slips and Golden Parachutes" The Project, New York, NY

2002

"A Nervous System" Hayworth, Los Angeles, CA

2001

"Substance" NeoImages, New York, NY

2000

"Winter Paper" Catherine Moore Fine Arts, New York, NY

"Flat File" Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY

"Room with a View" Sixth at Prince, New York, NY

1999

"The Annual Performance Awards" CRP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

"Standing on the Verge of Getting It On" Double Pleasure, New York, NY

1998

"No Fun" Double Pleasure, New York, NY

1997

"Deep Entertainment" Double Pleasure, New York, NY

"Fall Social" Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY

"The Chamberpot Show" The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY

1996

"Transmitting Live From Babylon" The Knitting Factory Video Lounge, New York, NY

"Hines and His Circle-Tragic Fading Supergraphic" Art of This Century Gallery, Houston, TX

1994

"Process-Strategy-Irony" Diverseworks, Houston, TX

"I'm Sorry" Cake Gallery, New York, NY

1993

"The Heat Game" CSAW, Houston, TX

"Arena-ennial" Arena Gallery, Houston, TX

Bibliography

2010

"Art for Everyone" Elle Decor, November

2009

"Artists as Optimists" by Charlie Finch, Artnet Magazine, January 6

2008

"Your Turn: Color, Geometry and More" by Joanne Mattera, Joane Mattera Art Blog, June 29

"20x200 Artist Interview: Giovanni Garcia-Fenech" by Kara Canal, 20x200 Blog, June 26

2005

"Dateline Brooklyn" by Stephen Maine, Artnet Magazine, February 4

2003

"Core Sampler" by Daniel Duford, The Organ (Oregon) #8, November/December

2002

"The Moment and The Eternity; Giovanni Garcia-Fenech and JBK Ransu at the Living Art Museum" Morgunbladsins, November 30

"Six Heads Indoors" Frettabladid, November 30

"Sleeping with the Enemy" by Rufus Griscom, Nerve.com, August 12

"Nervy Artists Get Personal Online" Artnet News, July 30

"Weekly Highlights: Are 'Friends' Electric" Los Angeles New Times, July 26

"The New Irascibles" by Carol Kino, photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, WBurg.com, Spring

"Group Show: The Nervous System" by Holly Meyers, Los Angeles Times, March 29

2000

"Do Nothing" by Kim Levine,Critique Magazine, Summer

1999

"Brooklyn Spice" by Paul Laster, Artnet Magazine, October 19

1998

"The Miracle Whip" by Tim Griffin, Paper Magazine Online, January 28

1997

"The Chamberpot Show" by Jay Grim, Critical Review, February

1996

"The Smurf Problem" by Tim Griffin, Paper Magazine Online, October 9

"Giovanni Garcia-Fenech: The Seduction of Reduction" by Sarah Borruso, HotWired, February 23

"Graphic Ideas" by Shaila Dewan, Houston Press, February 2

"Hines and His Circle" by Bill Davenport, Art Letter, February 1

1995

"Report From Texas: Going Against the Grain" by Frances Colpitt, Art in America, April

1994

"Painting as Etiquette" by Mark Frohman, Art Lies, October-November

"Abstraction Without Shame" by Susie Kahlil, Houston Press, October 6

1993

"Steam of Consciousness" by Mark Frohman, Public News, June 30

"The Heat Game" by Elaine Rose, Houston Press, June 17

Miscellaneous

2009

Featured speaker, February 8, Bidonville Artist Lecture Series, Brooklyn, NY

2003

Visiting artist, July 30, Yale University undergraduate Color Theory class

2002

Guest critic, December 16-17, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, NY

Visiting artist, November 24-29, Icelandic Academy of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland