Gala Porras-Kim

Gala Porras-Kim lives and works in Los Angeles. She received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2009 and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012. Recent solo exhibitions and projects have been held at Gasworks, London (2022); Amant, Brooklyn (2022); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2019). Porras-Kim’s work has been included in group exhibitions at 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021); 13th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2021); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2021, 2017); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2021, 2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019, 2016); PinchukArtCentre, Kiev (2019); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019, 2017); Para Site, Hong Kong (2019); and Seoul Museum of Art (2017). Porras-Kim is the recipient of the Art Matters Foundation Award (2019), Artadia Los Angeles Award (2017), Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2016), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2015), and Creative Capital Grant (2015). Porras-Kim has been in residency at Getty Research Institute (2021-22), Delfina Foundation (2021), Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2020), and La Tallera, Proyecto Siqueiros (2019).