Gala Porras-Kim (b. 1984, Bogotá; lives and works in Los Angeles and London) received an MA from University of California, Los Angeles (2012), an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (2009), and BA from University of California, Los Angeles (2007). Selected solo exhibitions have been held at Kunsthalle Bern (2025); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2025); Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2025); Museo delle Civiltà, Rome (2024); Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York (2024); Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2024); Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont (2024); Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2023); Fowler Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla (2023); Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2023); Gasworks, London (2022); Amant, Brooklyn (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2019). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2025); Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong (2024); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023); Liverpool Biennial (2023); 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021); 13th Gwangju Biennale (2021); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2021, 2017); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2021, 2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019, 2016); PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv (2019); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019, 2017); Para Site, Hong Kong (2019); and Seoul Museum of Art (2017). Porras-Kim is a recipient of MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2025); United States Artists Fellowship (2025); Heinz Award (2024), Gold Art Prize (2023), Art Matters Foundation Grant (2019), Artadia Los Angeles Award (2017), Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2016), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2015), Creative Capital Grant for Visual Artists (2015), and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2013). Porras-Kim has participated in residencies at Getty Research Institute (2022); Delfina Foundation, London (2021); Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge (2020); La Tallera, Proyecto Siqueiros, Cuernavaca (2019); Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca (2016); and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2010).

Porras-Kim’s work is in the collections of Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul; Brooklyn Museum; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Dallas Museum of Art; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Fonds régional d'art contemporain des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kadist Art Foundation; Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Mohn Art Collective: Hammer, LACMA, MOCA (MAC3); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Seoul Museum of Art; Tate, London; University of Richmond Museums; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.