R. Galvan is a conceptual artist based in Medford, MA. Their work has concentrated on the creation of a body of interconnected works exploring the theoretical and practiced construction of the self—an understanding of the conditions that form and contrast reflections of one’s sense of being. Galvan received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a postgraduate fellowship with Duke University’s program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South. They have exhibited work at the National Humanities Center, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, and internationally at the University of Coimbra (Portugal).
 
Galvan was born in Brownsville, Texas.