Resume
Skills
Design + Photography
Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects, and Lightroom
UI + Digital Design: Figma
DSLR/medium/large format photography + studio lighting
Retouching
Darkroom development
Understanding of front-end development: HTML + CSS
Social media strategy and engagement
Insight on Digital Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0)
Foreign Language
Spanish: Heritage Speaker
Other
Microsoft Office Suite
Productivity: Asana / Monday.com
Shopify
Klaviyo / Mailchimp / Constant Contact
Squarespace
Education
2015–17
B.A. Studio Arts
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2013–15
A.A. Associate in Arts
Davidson County Community College, Thomasville, NC
Current Experience
2023 – Present
Senior Digital Designer at Peter Millar
2017 – Present
Graphic Designer + Commercial Photographer at ACG Studio
Previous xperience
2017 – 2025
Senior Designer for Vert & Vogue
2020 – 2022
Designer at UNC Creative
Digital & print design for UNC Creative. UNC Creative serves as an in-house design agency for any department, unit, or program affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
May 2020 – 2022
Social Media Engagement for Matrons & Mistresses
2017 – 2020
Graphic Design/Marketing Consultant
for CAM Raleigh
Promoted engaging discourse regarding contemporary artists and their artwork from around the world and locally at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh. Collaborated with the Director of Development and Executive Director at CAM Raleigh to provide design support and to re-establish the museum's brand image.
Worked with the Director of Development and Executive Director at CAM Raleigh to create a social media content strategy and provide regular updates to the existing website for upcoming exhibitions and events.
2017
Legal Assistant for Alice Glover Immigration Law, PLLC
Aided with research, organization, interpretations/ translations, legal document preparation and submission for Alice Glover.
2015 – 2016
Project Assistant for UNC SHEPS Research
Conducted research studies for SAILS [Supporting Appropriate Implementation of Lung cancer Screening].
2015
English/Spanish Medical Interpreter
Facilitated communication between medical professionals and Spanish-speaking patients with little to no understanding of the English language.
Group Exhibitions
2017
Graphien
Frank Art Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
SAMple (Fall Re-Opening)
SAMple Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Site Unseen
John and June Alcott Undergraduate Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Dear NCGA
Polk Place, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Looking Glass
John and June Alcott Undergraduate Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2018
Occluded Front
John and June Alcott Undergraduate Gallery, UNC Chapel Hill
Cameras are Clocks for Seeing
John and June Alcott Undergraduate Gallery, UNC Chapel Hill
Grants // Awards
2017
Beatrice B. Pearman Undergraduate Research Fund in Art
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
The Anderson Undergraduate Studio Art Award
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Curatorial Work
2017
Past, Protest, Future
Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC
Acknowledgement
on Discovering Imperfection
“Adrian Garcia’s clean photographs of floating islands of goose bumped skin and bodily expanses, landscapes that defy location, slivers of flesh, hold the curling white sky space of the paper like the image we see when we look through a peephole or strange aperture. Tiny landscapes of desire, these human plains are lonely, hovering in the middle of blank pages of imagination. Both abstract and real, micro and macroscopic, Garcia’s images enact scopophilia, but without perversion.”