Charles Glaubitz González
Email:
cglaubitz@ucsd.edu
Biography:
Charles Glaubitz González (b. 1973, Tijuana, Mexico) is a visual artist and narrative world-builder whose practice spans comics, painting, and installation. His work operates as speculative fabulation—a form of storytelling and myth-making that merges metaphysics, cosmology, and quantum physics into layered visual systems that function both as story and metaphysics.
California College of the Arts in San Francisco (BFA, 2001) and San Diego City College (Graphic Design), Glaubitz bridges independent comics and contemporary art through a sustained exploration of symbolic world-building. His trilogy Starseeds (Fantagraphics, 2017–2023) and its continuation The Noosphere construct an epic mythopoetic cosmology where dreams, wishes, and archetypes act as ontological agents, proposing new frameworks that critique modernity while envisioning alternative symbolic futures.
He has exhibited internationally at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Zapopan Museum of Art, Oceanside Museum of Art, Museo Amparo, and the Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT). His works are included in major collections such as the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the Lynda Resnick Collection, the Amparo Museum, and the Elias Fontes Collection.
A three-time recipient of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores (FONCA) in Graphic Narrative (2006, 2013–2016, 2019–2022), Glaubitz has now been awarded his third grant for 2025–2028. His practice spans over two decades of exhibitions, publications, and teaching, including more than ten years as faculty at San Diego City College.
At UC San Diego, Glaubitz continues to develop his concept of Spiritual Punk—a hybrid of visionary cosmology, symbolic storytelling, and speculative fabulation—treating comics and art as myth-machines, portals for world-building, and tools for reimagining metaphysical futures.
