Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic,[4] García has been active in the visual arts from the time she was a child.

[5] After graduating with an AAS from the Altos de Chavón School of Design, a Parsons affiliate, in La Romana, Dominican Republic in 1986, she won a full merit scholarship to attend Parsons School of Design in New York City.

She received a BFA cum laude from Parsons in 1988 and completed an MFA in Sculpture at City College of New York in 2011.

She joined the University of Texas at Austin as Assistant Professor of Art in 2021.

[7] Four of her mixed-media works are in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.