Gala Porras-Kim

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Gala Porras-Kim
Born
Bogotá, Colombia
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.

Early life and education[edit]

Gala Porras-Kim is the daughter of academics. Her father, a literature professor from Colombia, met her mother, who is South Korean, while she was studying literature in Bogotá.[4] As a child, Porras-Kim was often brought by her parents to museums, archives, and research sites.[5][6] She attended University of California, Los Angeles and CalArts.

Artwork[edit]

Porras-Kim's research-based practice spans drawing, sculpture, and installation.[5] Through research and art-making, she often questions the role of museums and heritage institutions in defining and assigning meaning to cultural artefacts.[3] She is especially interested in why and how the definitions of art and objects change when they enter different spaces, as well as how objects have the potential to change the spaces they inhabit.[5][3] Much of her work deals with time, and the way the perception of objects changes over time, [7][8] while considering the original sacred function of cultural artefacts and how they are represented in the present.[6]

Porras-Kim uses a social and political context that influences the representation of language and history to create art objects through the learning process.[9] In 2023, her work National Treasures was featured at Leeum[clarification needed].[10]

Career highlights[edit]

As a visiting scholar at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Porras-Kim researched objects from archeological sites in Mexico.[11] Her work as artist-in-residence at the Getty Center investigated "social and political contexts that influence how language and history intersect with art."[12] In March 2022, Porras-Kim was featured on the cover of Artforum for her work at Amant gallery in New York.[13]

Awards[edit]

Porras-Kim is a recipient of Gold Prize (2023), Art Matters Foundation Grant (2019), Artadia Los Angeles Award (2017),[14] Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2016), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2015),[15] Creative Capital Grant (2015),[16] and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2013).

Selected exhibitions[edit]

Solo exhibitions[edit]

  • Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2024)[17]
  • Pitzer College Art Galleries (2024)[18]
  • National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (2023)
  • Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2023)[19]
  • Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2023)[20]
  • Gasworks, London (2022)[21]

Group exhibitions[edit]

  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019, 2017)[22]

References[edit]

  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. ^ a b c 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.
  4. ^ "UCLA Arts: School of the Arts and Architecture". UCLA Arts: School of the Arts and Architecture. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  5. ^ a b c "The irresistible, transcontinental art of Gala Porras-Kim". Art Basel. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  6. ^ a b Pearl, Max (2021-12-21). "Gala Porras-Kim and the Afterlife of an Artifact". Vulture. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Stromberg, Matt (13 March 2019). "The Weird, Wondrous, and Worldly Art Visions of LA". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Gala Porras-Kim". Labor. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  10. ^ Hwang, Hui-gyeong (2023-10-31). "갈라 포라스-김이 재해석한 유물의 의미…리움 개인전 '국보'". Yonhap News (in Korean).
  11. ^ Amadour, Ricky (2022-01-05). "An Interview with Artist Gala Porras-Kim". Riot Material. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  12. ^ "Getty: Resources for Visual Art and Cultural Heritage". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  13. ^ "March 2022". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  14. ^ "Gala Porras-Kim". Artadia. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  15. ^ "Gala Porras-Kim | Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation | 2015 Biennial Awards". louiscomforttiffanyfoundation.org. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  16. ^ "Gala Porras-Kim". Creative Capital. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  17. ^ "Gala Porras-Kim:". MCA Denver. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  18. ^ "Gala Porras-Kim: Between Lapses of Histories". Pitzer College. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  19. ^ "Leeum Museum of Art". www.leeumhoam.org (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  20. ^ "Gala Porras-Kim". Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  21. ^ "Gala Porras-Kim: Out of an instance of expiration comes a perennial showing | Exhibitions | Gasworks". gasworks.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  22. ^ "2019 WHITNEY BIENNIAL ANNOUNCES PARTICIPATING ARTISTS". Artforum. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

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