Éva Garcia (b. 1980, Dordogne) lives and works in Paris. She began her training in printmaking in 2010 at the Paris Ateliers, under the guidance of Mireille Baltar, and in 2013 was awarded the Graver Maintenant Prize. In 2014 she joined Bo Halbirk’s workshop, further deepening her mastery of engraving techniques. Her first solo exhibition, held in 2019 at Galerie Schumm-Braunstein in Paris, marked a decisive turning point in her career. The following year, she received the Prix Frédéric et Jean de Vernon for printmaking from the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Garcia’s practice is rooted in engraving, a medium she explores in all its dimensions—sugar lift, burin, drypoint, and mezzotint—while gradually privileging direct engraving. Her works offer visions at once ethereal and tactile, oscillating between experimentation and precision. What drives her is the image itself, inherently multiple, shifting from its initial inscription to its inevitable dispersal. While her process begins with the incision of a matrix, Garcia constantly questions the principle of printmaking and its identical multiplication: she intervenes directly on prints, alters supports, and transforms each impression into a singular object.
Rather than producing series with variations, she develops repeated, transposed, and layered writings—transfers of language where gesture, technique, and material interpenetrate. Formats often demand full bodily engagement, and the confrontation with matter is at once raw and refined, harsh and delicate. This physicality has recently led her to expand her practice into painting and sculpture, always maintaining engraving at the heart of her investigations in a circular, evolving relationship.
In 2024, she was an artist-in-residence at Fiminco (Romainville, Paris), where she presented new works in a dedicated exhibition. Spazio Nobile Gallery (Brussels) presented Garcia’s first solo exhibition Cette lumière peut-elle in 2022. Her second solo show, Taille Douce, in spring 2025 was accompanied by the publication of her artist’s book by Spazio Nobile Editions. She has been represented by the gallery since 2022.
Éva Garcia – Can the Light Render
Eva Garcia_L’Echo_Entre gravure, sculpture et peinture à la galerie Spazio Nobile
