Alicia Galindo was born in East Los Angeles and raised in Culver City, California. She is the descendent of a Mexican father and a Mexican-American mother. Both her paternal grandfather and great-grandfather were professional photographers in Mexico City. She grew up in a very traditional Mexican family. As a child she loved to draw. Alicia's artistic ability was admired but never encouraged and during her adolescent years she stopped drawing altogether. In 1981, she came across the work of muralists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco and the magical paintings of Frida Kahlo and once again began to draw. Recently, she has been inspired by German artist Kurt Schwitters' beautiful collage pieces and Mexican artist Jose Miguel Covarrubias' life - his extensive collection of Pre-Columbian art, and his talent and success as a caricaturist, illustrator, painter, mapmaker, set designer, dance director, author, research scholar, professor, anthropologist, and archeologist.
In 1981, Alicia took art courses at West Lost Angeles College in Culver City and later moved to San Francisco in 1983 where she enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute and then transferred to the Academy of Art University. From 1990 through 1995, Alicia worked as a commercial artist designing and sculpting dolls for a company in San Anselmo, California. During 1992, she worked at a special education school in San Rafael where she discovered the value of art as therapy. Her experience at Timothy Murphy School led her to pursue a degree in art education. In December 2005, Alicia received her Bachelor of Arts in Art, Cum Laude, with a concentration in Art Education at California State University, Northridge.
Alicia works in a wide variety of media – clay, graphite pencil, charcoal, color pencils, pastels, acrylics, oils, and occasionally mixed media collage and assemblage, and lately in Adobe Fesco. Alicia has exhibited her work at Self-Help Graphics & Art in Boyle Heights; Santa Monica Museum of Art and Tracy Park Gallery/Hamilton Galleries in Santa Monica; William Grant Still Arts Center, FDG Gallery, LunaTierraSol Café, Tom Bradley International Terminal, Barnsdall Art Center, HABLA Underground Gallery, The Pico House Gallery, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's office in Los Angeles; Sabor y Cultura Café in Hollywood; Blue Bird Gallery in Whittier; Glendale Community College Art Gallery in Glendale; Nevada State Museum & Historical Society in Las Vegas, Nevada; Galeria Frida Kahlo en La Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa in Culiacan, Mexico; Galeria Casa Las Monas in Leon Guanajuato, Mexico; and Casa de La 9 Arte Café, La Escal A in Tijuana, Baja California; and Fremont Gallery in South Pasadena.
Alicia lives in Culver City with her husband, musician/assemblage artist, Mark Broyard. She is the mother of a daughter, Danielle, and two sons, Nolan and Henri. Her greatest role is being a grandmother and is loving every single minute. She is currently working on a series of children books inspired by the birth of her first grandchild.
