Miss Jaws is Jessica Garcia; an artist and illustrator currently residing in Indianapolis, IN. She earned her BFA in Illustration from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2016. She specializes in digital and traditional art to create stylized works that tell stories centered around gender, socialization, and culture.
Miss Jaws has been featured in publications such as Forge Art Magazine, Mieux, and VoyageMIA. Her illustrations and comics have also appeared in The New Yorker and Eater Magazine, in zines produced by art collectives (Fem)Power (of Miami) and Mujeristas Collective (of New York City) and independent publishers such as Josei Press, Radiator Comics and Isolated: A Pandemic Comics Anthology. Her art has been exhibited in shows such as 2018’s Beauty Conscious group exhibition at the Girls Club warehouse in Fort Lauderdale and BUTTER 2023 in Indianapolis, IN.“Some Tips on How to Multitask”, New Yorker Magazine, APRIL 2021
“FORGE. Issue 23: Trust”, Forge Art Magazine, AUGUST 2019
“Issue #3 Soy Mujerista”, Mujeristas Collective, JANUARY 2019
“MISS JAWS: FEELING FEISTY AND FEMININE”, Mieux Magazine, MAY 2018
“Issue #2 Mas Amor Por Favor”, Mujeristas Collective, FEBRUARY 9 2018
BLUEPRINT A Collective of Women Artists of Color, Rueff Galleries East
JANUARY 2024, West Lafayette, IN
Erotic Art Show, Future Friends HMC
FEBRUARY 2024, Indianapolis, IN
BUTTER Art Fair, Stutz Building
SEPTEMBER 2023 Indianapolis, IN
Beauty (Con)scious, Girls' Club Warehouse
JULY 2018, Fort Lauderdale, FL
“A FUTURE WE CAN VIBE WITH”, Gowanus Print Lab
AUGUST 2017, New York, NY
Photograph by Brenna McCarty, 2021
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