The artists in Commonwealth and Council’s Frieze booth (A28) share an interest in unpacking their inheritances—from personal histories to cultural knowledge—to consider how the narratives that shape our lives and worldviews can be expanded and reimagined. 

Gala Porras-Kim (b. 1984, Bogotá; lives and works in Los Angeles and London) received an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (2012), an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (2009), and BA from University of California, Los Angeles (2007). Solo exhibitions have been held at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2024); Pitzer College Art Galleries (2024); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023); 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); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2019). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Sprüth Magers, Berlin (2024); 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, 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 a recipient of Gold 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 (2021-22); 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 Brooklyn Museum; Cc Foundation, Shanghai; 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; 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; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Jesse Chun (b. 1984, Seoul; lives and works in Seoul and New York) received an MFA from School of Visual Arts (2014) and BFA from Parsons School of Design (2007). Solo exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2024); 1708 Gallery, Richmond (2018); and Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (2016). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul (forthcoming); Thaddaeus Ropac, Seoul (2024); Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2024); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2024); 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2023);  Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco (2023); De Appel, Amsterdam (2023); Ballroom Marfa (2023); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2021); SculptureCenter, Queens (2020); Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul (2020); NXTHVN, New Haven (2020); The Drawing Center, New York (2019); and Queens Museum (2018). Chun is a recipient of Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2020) and Triple Canopy Commission Award (2020). Chun has participated in residencies at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2024); National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship at ISCP, New York (2019), and The Drawing Center Open Sessions Fellowship (2018).

Chun’s work is in the collections of Kadist Art Foundation; Museum of Modern Art Library, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, New York; Seoul Museum of Art; and Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Kang Seung Lee (b. 1978, Seoul; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (2015). Solo exhibitions have been held at Museu de arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (forthcoming); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023); Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park (2023); Gallery Hyundai, Seoul (2021); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2021, 2017, 2016); Hapjungjigu, Seoul (2019); One and J. Gallery, Seoul (2018); and Artpace San Antonio (2017). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Cantor Arts Center, Stanford (2024); Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis (2024); 60th Venice Biennale (2024); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung (2024); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023); documenta 15, Kassel (2022); Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena (2022); New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); 13th Gwangju Biennial (2021); MASS MoCA, North Adams (2021); Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (2020); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2020); Daelim Museum, Seoul (2020); and LAXART (2017). Lee is a recipient of Angeles Art Fund Artadia Award (2023), California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2019), and Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (2018). Lee has participated in residencies at MacDowell (2022); 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (2020); Artpace San Antonio (2017); and Pitzer College, Claremont (2015).

Lee’s work is in the collections of Cantor Arts Center, Stanford; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museu de arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong.

Lotus L. Kang (b. 1985, Toronto; lives and works in Brooklyn) received an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (2018) and a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal (2008). Solo exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (forthcoming); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2023); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2023); Chisenhale Gallery, London (2023); and Franz Kaka, Toronto (2020). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (forthcoming); James Cohan (2024); Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2024); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2024); SculptureCenter, Queens (2023); Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale on Hudson (2023); Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2023); and New Museum, New York (2021). Kang is a recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2024). Kang has participated in residencies at Triangle Arts Association, New York (2022); Horizon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, (2022); Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta (2020); and Rupert Residency, Vilnius (2018).

Kang’s work is in the collections of Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Cc Foundation, Shanghai; Kadist Art Foundation; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Rivoli Due Fondazione per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan; and Wrocław Contemporary Museum.

Patricia Fernández (b. 1980, Burgos; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (2010) and a BFA from University of California, Los Angeles (2002). Solo exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2024, 2021, 2018); Commonwealth and Council, Mexico City (2023); Whistle, Seoul (2021); Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (2021, 2016); Holiday Forever, Jackson Hole (2020); Todd Madigan Gallery, Bakersfield (2018); Museo de Arte Burgos (2015); 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (2014); and LAXART (2014). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2023, 2017); Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena (2022); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2020); Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro (2019); Tina Kim Gallery, New York (2018); Obra, Malmö (2017); and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012). Fernández is a recipient of Otis College of Art and Design Faculty Development Grant (2021), Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019), Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2017-18), Speranza Foundation Lincoln City Fellowship (2015), France-Los Angeles Exchange Grant (2012), and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2011). Fernández has participated in residencies at Forest Island, Mammoth Lakes (2018); Récollets, Paris (2016); D-Flat, Mexico City (2016); Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin (2015); 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (2014); and Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (2013).

Fernández’s work is in the collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Rosha Yaghmai (b. 1978, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (2007) and a BFA from School of Visual Arts, New York (2021). Solo exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (2022); Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai (2022); Kayne Griffin Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2019); Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn (2016); and Weiss, Berlin (2016). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Jewish Museum, New York (2024); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2023); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield (2017); Tate St Ives, Cornwall (2017); Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2018); The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2018); The Finley, Los Angeles (2018); Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles (2018); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2016); Public Fiction, Los Angeles (2014); and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2008). Yaghmai is a recipient of California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2019), Villa Aurora Fellowship (2016), and Terra Foundation Fellowship (2009).

Yaghmai’s work is in the collections of Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.