Gala Porras-Kim

• Born in 1984, Bogotá, Colombia
  Lives and works in Los Angeles and London

Education

• 2012      M.A. in Latin American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, US
  2009      M.F.A. in Art, California Institute of the Arts, California, US
  2007      B.A. in Art and Latin American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, US

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2025
  The motion of an alluvial record, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  Conditions for holding a natural form, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The categorical bind, Sprüth Magers, London, UK
  The reflection at the threshold of a categorical division, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
  A Hand in Nature, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, US
  
  2024
  A recollection returns with a soft touch, Museo delle Civiltà, Rome, Italy
  Conditions for recognising a living stone, PINA Magazine, Issue #1
  The motion of an alluvial record, Storefront, New York, US 
  A Hand in Nature, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, US
  Between lapses of histories, Pitzer College, Claremont, US
  
  2023
  Korea Art Prize 2023, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  National Treasures, Leeum Museum of Art, Korea
  The weight of a patina of time, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, US
  Entre lapsos de historias, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico
  Vistas más allá de la tumba, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla, Spain  
    
  2022
  Correspondences towards the living object, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St. Louis, US
  Precipitation for an Arid Landscape, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, US
  Out of an instance of expiration comes a perennial showing, Gasworks, London, UK 
  
  2021       
  Precipitation for an Arid Landscape, Amant, New York, US
  A Terminal Escape from the Place that Binds Us, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, US
  
  2019     
  Open House: Gala Porras-Kim, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, US
  
  2018     
  Trials in Ancient Technology, Headlands Center for the Arts, Headlands, US
  
  2017    
  An Index and its Histories, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, US
  An Index and its Settings, LABOR, Mexico City, Mexico 
  
  2015    
  For Prospective Rock/Artifact Projection, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, US
  
  2013    
  The Mute Object and Ancient Stories of Today, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, US
  
  2012    
  Whistling and Language Transfiguration, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, US
  Proposal for the Rotation of Lewis and Clark, Black Hunger, Boise, US
  Prospecting Notes About Sounds, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, US
  
  2010    
  I Want to Prepare to Learn Something I Don’t Know, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, US
  F is for Overdue, FOXRIVER, Singapore
  Adaptation, Dobaebacsa HQ, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2025
  Gestures of Abundance, Azores Biennial, Azores, Portugal
  Grounded, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
  Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960-2020s, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, US
  Palabreras de la muerte, Sala de Arte Contemporáneo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
  Sorties, Space ISU, Seoul, Korea
  Diary of Flowers: Artists and Their Worlds, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
  Ways of Knowing, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, US
  
  2024
  Scientia Sexualis, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
  Atrium Series, Art at Americas Society, New York
  Countering Time, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
  territory, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
  Tongues of Fire, Kunstall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway
  Rituals of the Everyday, Collegium, Arevalo, Spain
  
  2023
  uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
  The Feminist Program (1970-75): Cycles of Collectivity, REDCAT, Los Angeles, US
  Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps Cisneros Gift and Beyond, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  A Speculative Impulse: Art Transgressing the Archive, Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, US
  
  2022   
  Flowing Moon, Embracing Land, 3rd Jeju Biennial, Jeju, Korea 
  Museum of Civilizations' two methodological entrances, Museo della Civilita, Rome, Italy
  Schindler House 100 years in the making, Mak Center, Los Angeles, US
  Frequencies of Tradition, KADIST, San Francisco, US
  
  2021   
  Faz escuro mas eu canto, 34th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
  Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  Grain of a Hand: Drawings with Graphite, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, US
  NOT I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE – 2020 CE), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
  Portals, NEON, Athens, Greece
  
  2020   
  Out of Place: A feminist look at the collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
  
  2019   
  Nowhere Better than this Place, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
  Direct Message: Art, Language and Power, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, US
  Immortality, Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg, Russia
  Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Future Generation Art Prize shortlist exhibition, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
  Future Generation Art Prize collateral exhibition, Venice Biennale, Italy
  An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong / Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  Lost and Found: imagining new worlds, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
  
  2018   
  Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
  Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, US
  A grammar built with rocks, Human Resources, Los Angeles, US
  Algorithm, O B R A, Malmö, Sweden
  Commonwealth and Council, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US 
  
  2017   
  Working for a Future Past, Seoul National Museum of Art, Seoul
  Dysfunctional Formulas of Love, The Box, Los Angeles, US
  Guest, Ghost Host: Marathon, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
  A Universal History of Infamy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
  A Universal History of Infamy: Virtues of Disparity, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, US
  Fond Illusions, Galerie Perrotin, New York, US
  The Ecstasy of Mary Shelley, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, US
  Las Ruinas Circulares, CONDO, LABOR at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, US
  Preservation, Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, US
  Whitney Biennial, part of rafa esparza’s Figure Ground: Beyond the White Field, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Talking to Action, Otis College of Art and Design for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Getty Foundation), Los Angeles, US
  Arrangements in Undertone, Chan Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, US
  Between Words and Silence: Meaning, Understanding, and the Work of Translation, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, US
  
  2016   
  Journal d'un travailleur métèque du futur, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
  Aún, 44th Salón Nacional de Artistas, Pereira Museum of Art, Pereira, Colombia
  CURRENT LA, Los Angeles Public Art Biennial, Los Angeles, US
  Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
  Customizing Language, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
  
  
  2015
  Art and the Measure of Liberty, Permanent Mission of Korea to the UN, New York, US
  Burnt Summer, Malmousque, Marseille, France
  OK Confiance, Rond Point Projects, Marseille, France
  Palm Capsule, Mak Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, US
  Unmapping the Resistance, Villa Romana, Max Planck Institute, Florence, Italy
  One in Which We Are, SOMArts, San Francisco, US
  Between Two Worlds, CalState LA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  
  2014        
  Acciones Territoriales, ExTeresa Arte Actual, CDMX, Mexico
  Distant Parallels, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, US
  After Noise: Elana Mann, Gala Porras-Kim, Susan Silton, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  Greece, California State University Long Beach, Los Angeles, US
  The Riso Book: Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, US
  Heaps of Language, KCHUNG, Los Angeles, US
  Interventions (curated by Amanda Hunt for Elena Bajo’s Burn the Witch), 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, US
  
  2013
  Blind Threesome Plus One, Claremont, US
  Tête-à-Tête, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, US
  SUR Biennial, Cerritos College, Cerritos, US
  Between Bodies, USC MA Art and Curatorial Practicum Exhibition, Los Angeles, US
  Demolition Woman, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Claremont, US
  
  2012
  Make Hay, David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis, US
  Monster Drawing Rally, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Pasadena, US
  Un-Entitled Certificate with Unofficial Seal for Kaucyila Brooke’s Do You Want me to Draw You a Diagram?, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
  
  2011
  After the Gold Rush, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, US
  Suelto, La Central, Bogotá, Colombia
  DCCS, Yogiga Gallery, Seoul
  Collective Show, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, US
  
  2010
  I Have a Light, S1F Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  SK10NY, Tompkins Projects, New York, US
  SK10, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, US
  Tumbleweeds and other Histories, Fivethirtythree, Los Angeles, US
  
  2009
  Block Party, Workspace, Los Angeles, US
  Sundown Hullaballo, Elder St, Los Angeles, US
  GLAMFA, Long Beach State University, Los Angeles, US
  Why Video, REDCAT, Los Angeles, US
  Why Theory, Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles, US
  Action-Reflection-Action, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
  This Day Let Your Work be Undone, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, US
  I Am A Citizen, Imprenta, Los Angeles, US
  
  2008
  City of Torrance, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, US
  “Conventions and Attitudes”, Remy's on Temple, Los Angeles and The Amie and Tony James Gallery, New York, US
  Habeas Lounge, CUNY, New York, US
  Mid Residency Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, US
  War Room, White Room c113, curated by Sam Durant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, US
  
  2007
  Can We Sit on It, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, US
  
  2006
  TECHNOPARTY, White Room, University of California, Los Angeles, US

Selected Awards

• Fellowships/Residencies
  2025
  American Academy in Rome, Mary Miss Resident in Visual Art, Rome, Italy
  
  2022
  Museo delle Civilita, Research Fellowship, Rome, Italy
  
  2020–22
  Artist in Residence, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, US
  
  2021
  Delfina Foundation, London, UK
  
  2019–20
  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge, US
  La Tallera, Cuernavaca, Mexico
  Beta Local, The Harbor, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  
  2018
  Headlands Center for the Arts, Headlands, US
  
  2016
  30th Ateliers internationaux residency FRAC Pays de la Loire, France
  Careyes Foundation residency, Careyes, Mexico
  Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, Mexico
  
  2015
  Triangle France residency, Marseille, France
  
  2010
  Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, US
  
  Awards
  2025
  United States Artists Fellowship
  
  2024
  Heinz Foundation Awards for the Arts
  William L. Metcalf Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
  
  2023
  LACMA Art + Tech Lab Grant Recipients
  Korea Art Prize Finalist
  Winner, Gold Art Prize
  
  2021–25
  Metro Commission Wilshire/Westwood Station main entrance, US
  
  2019
  Art Matters Foundation, US
  Thomas Sillman Vanguard Award, US
  Future Generation Art Prize shortlist, Ukraine
  
  2017
  Artadia, US
  Rema Hort Mann Foundation, US
  
  2016
  Joan Mitchell Foundation, US
  
  2015
  Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, US
  Creative Capital, US
  
  2013
  California Community Foundation, US

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
  Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
  Cc Foundation, Shanghai, China
  Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, US
  DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, US
  Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
  Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
  KADIST, Paris, France; San Francisco, US
  Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, US
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Pérez Art Museum, Miami, US
  Seoul Museum of Art, Korea, US
  Tate Modern, London, UK
  University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, US
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US