Madison Garay

Madison Garay is a storyteller. In some spaces, she is a visual culture scholar. In others, she is a creative collaborator. Increasingly, she is a boots-on-the-ground arts and culture writer, as featured in New Mexico Magazine and Southwest Contemporary. Always, in spirit, she is a Route 66 mystic. Let's get hauntological.

Madison received her M.A. in Art History (Art of the Americas) in 2025 from the University of New Mexico. Her research focused on placemaking and formulation of regional identities in the built, vernacular environments of Route 66 through the Land of Enchantment. Madison also holds a B.A. in History of Art and Visual Culture from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she investigated the economy of images shared online during the California wildfires.

Madison is a casual internet anthropologist, expressed through her artistic practice, where deep digital memory and web artifacts are reconstructed in video collages. Most importantly, she is a bonafide roadfan and finds most inspiration in the dirty crevices of the world. Until her camera broke (twice), she could be found shooting 35mm film on sidewalks near you. Portfolio forthcoming.

Let's connect - even if only to talk about buildings.