Gala Porras-Kim


Gala Porras-Kim is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. 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.
In 2017 she was the recipient of an Artadia Award, and in 2015 of Creative Capital and Tiffany Foundation awards. She is participating in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Porras-Kim is curating a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in October 2019.

Work

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