Monica Kim Garza

BIOGRAPHY

Monica Kim Garza’s vibrant paintings of women of colour reject the dominant white male gaze. Altogether, they reflect an unfettered utopia of female leisure and joy. Garza renders her (primarily nude) subjects with expressionistic brushwork and a smattering of tonal hues, setting them within bright backgrounds that reflect real locations and atmospheric states. Women recline, lift weights, and play ping-pong throughout her oeuvre.

Graza’s work has been exhibited in several solo exhibitions, including Sliver of Salt, Soco Gallery, Charlotte, US (2022); Baguettes, The Hole, New York (2021); Summer I miss you, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne (2021); Closer, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen (2020); Cucul, with Vincent Beaurin, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris (2020); Orange and Cinnamon, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); and Laredo, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2019).

Among her group exhibitions Mixed Pickles, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne (2021); Paper Cut Bodega III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen (2021); Lampadaphoria, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen (2021); Play, The Hole, New York (2021); Hybrids, CFHILL, Stockholm (2020); Personal Mythologies, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris (2020); Woman, Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens (2020); The Beyond: Georgia O’Kieffe and Beyond, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut (2019); PUNCH LA, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles (2019) and Pak den Badeaunzug ein, Kornfeld Galerie, Berlin (2019).

Garza received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and drawing from California College of the Arts (2010).

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