About Jeryc Garcia

Jeryc Garcia is a visual artist, scholar, and educator whose practice centers on experimental photography, image-making theory, and the critical re-examination of visual inheritance. His research operates at the intersection of semiotics, post-colonial identity, and contemporary mythmaking, with a sustained focus on how images can be made, and unmade, to recover what official histories cannot contain. His most significant methodological contribution is the Drawn Negative Process, a practice-based research framework developed through his MFA at the University of the Philippines Diliman. The cameraless process uses drawing and printmaking techniques to work in the liminal spaces between documentation and invention, history and myth. Before formalizing his research practice through graduate school, Jeryc spent nearly two decades in advertising and publishing, including a founding editorship and senior creative leadership roles across the Philippines and Vietnam. He has been teaching in higher education since 2012 and is currently an Assistant Professor at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, where he also serves as Research Coordinator for Creative and Artistic Research of the School of New Media Arts.