Gala Porras-Kim

Gala Porras-Kim
Born
NationalityColombian, Korean, American
EducationCalArts, UCLA
Known forSculpture; drawing
AwardsArtadia Award, Creative Capital Award, Tiffany Foundation Award

Gala Porras-Kim (born 1984, Bogota, Colombia) is a Colombian-Korean-American contemporary interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles[1][2] and London. Her work deals with the fields of linguistics, history, and conservation, often engaging in institutional critique.[3]

Porras-Kim's work is in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Fonds régional d'art contemporain des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France; Pérez Art Museum Miami; and Seoul Museum of Art.

  1. ^ Giles, Gretchen (12 July 2018). "Gala Porras-Kim's 'Ancient Technologies' Wants to See What Happens". KQED. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Gala Porras-Kim". Artadia. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  3. ^ García, Vanessa Lopez (2023). Gala Porras-Kim: Between Lapses of Histories, Gala Porras-Kim: Entre lapsos de historias (in Spanish and English). MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico City, Mexico). ISBN 9786073072045.