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

Gala Porras-Kim (born 1984, Bogota, Colombia) is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.[1][2] Her work has been shown at the Whitney, LACMA, and the Hammer Museum. Much of her work deals with time, and the way the perception of objects changes over time.[3][4] In March 2022, Porras-Kim was featured on the cover of Artforum for her work at Amant in New York.[5]

Career

In 2017 she was the recipient of an Artadia Award,[6] and in 2015 of Creative Capital[7] and Tiffany Foundation[8] awards. She is participated in the 2019 Whitney Biennial.[9] Porras-Kim also curated a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in October 2019. As a scholar at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Porras-Kim researched objects from archeological sites in Mexico.[10] Her work as artist-in-residence at the Getty Center investigates "social and political contexts that influence how language and history intersect with art."[11] In March 2022, Porras-Kim was featured on the cover of Artforum for her work at Amant in New York.[5]

Work

Gala uses a social and political context that influences the representation of language and history to create art objects through the learning process.[12]

References

  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. ↑ Valdez Quade, Kirstin (17 August 2017). "The Other Side of the Wall: A New Generation of Latino Art". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  4. ↑ Stromberg, Matt (13 March 2019). "The Weird, Wondrous, and Worldly Art Visions of LA". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  5. 1 2 "March 2022". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  6. ↑ "Gala Porras-Kim". Artadia. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  7. ↑ "Gala Porras-Kim". Creative Capital. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  8. ↑ "Gala Porras-Kim | Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation | 2015 Biennial Awards". louiscomforttiffanyfoundation.org. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  9. ↑ "2019 WHITNEY BIENNIAL ANNOUNCES PARTICIPATING ARTISTS". Artforum. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  10. ↑ Amadour, Ricky (2022-01-05). "An Interview with Artist Gala Porras-Kim". Riot Material. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  11. ↑ "Getty: Resources for Visual Art and Cultural Heritage". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  12. ↑ "Gala Porras-Kim". Labor. Retrieved 2020-07-27.


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