Monica Kim Garza

Born in 1988, Alamogordo, NM, US
Lives and works in Atlanta, GE, US

Confidently jumping between the mediums, and intertwining them in her practice, Monica Kim Garza creates unapologetically honest work that is dominated with care-free, ethically, and racially ambiguous women of color. Constructing her compositions around their curvaceous bodies, deeply influenced by the indigenous ancient art as well as classic Renaissance work, she is in a way reinventing the contemporary portraits and contemporary figurative painting while bringing new point of view to the standardized format.

Monica Kim Garza (born in 1988, lives and works in Atlanta, GA, US) studied at California State University (Long Beach, CA, US). Her work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Venice Biennale (Venice, IT), Ross-Sutton Gallery (Venice, IT), Ruttkowski;68 (Cologne, DE), Eighteen Gallery (Copenhagen, DK), Soco Gallery (Charlotte, NC, US), and The Hole (New York, NY, US). Her works have also been featured in group exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, UT, US), the Taubman Museum (Roanoke, VA, US), the Museum of Sex (New York, NY, US), the New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, CT, US), and the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC, US). Her work has also been exhibited at major international art fairs, including The Armory Show (New York, NY, US) and Art Herning (Herning, DK).