Matthew Willie Garcia was born and raised in Tulare, CA. He received a B.F.A. in Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute and is currently an M.F.A. Candidate in Printmaking at the University of Kansas. Matthew lives and works between Kansas City, MO, and Lawrence, KS. He is as a queer EXTRA-dimensional explorer, and often finds himself thinking about Lisa Frank, Star Trek Voyager, Ru Pauls Drag Race and the curvature of space-time.