Gala Porras-Kim. Photo: Mike Vitelli
Sprüth Magers has announced international representation of Gala Porras-Kim, in collaboration with Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles. The artist’s first solo show with the gallery, The categorical bind, will open at Sprüth Magers, London tomorrow June 3rd.
The research-based practice of Porras-Kim considers the complex relationship between cultural artifacts and the conventions governing their collection, conservation, display and taxonomy. By revealing overlapping areas in institutional collections, where items are classified as either information, science or art, she questions the conceptual frameworks and individual choices that inform our reading and presentation of objects as works of art. The resulting work—spanning drawing, sculpture and installation—offers poetic, provocative and spiritual forms of engagement with the ideas and beliefs that shape our histories.
Gala Porras-Kim (*1984, Bogotá) lives and works in Los Angeles and London. The Colombian-Korean-American artist received her Master of Fine Arts from CalArts, Valencia, CA (2009). She was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge (2019), an Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2020–22) and a Fellow at the Museo delle Civiltà, Rome in collaboration with MAO – Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin (2023–25). Her work has been exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2025), Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2024), MoMA, New York (2023), Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2023), MMCA, Seoul (2023), MUAC, Mexico City (2023), Liverpool Biennial (2023), Gwangju Biennial (2021), São Paulo Art Biennial (2021), and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019, 2017).
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