© Courtesy of Monica Kim Garza and cadet capela
Monica Kim Garza
Biography
Born in 1988, Alamogordo, New Mexico, US
Lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia, US
Confidently jumping between the mediums, and intertwining them in her practice, she is creating 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.
Exhibitions
Under The Crescent Moon
Monica Kim Garza
September 3 — October 8, 2022
54 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
Taipei Dangdai 2022
Monica Kim Garza, Jordy Kerwick, Ken Sortais
May 20 — 22, 2022
Taipei, Taiwan
Personal Mythologies
Cydne Jasmin Coleby, Monica Kim Garza, Anuar Khalifi, Basil Kincaid
August 29 — September 23, 2020
54 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
Cucul
Vincent Beaurin, Monica Kim Garza
March 6 — 19, 2020
Rue Saint Claude, Paris, FR
Show show
Vincent Beaurin, Monica Kim Garza
November 16 — 25, 2019
Rue Saint Claude, Paris, FR
Group show
Monica Kim Garza, James Jarvis, Rhys Lee, Brandon Lipchik, Erin M. Riley, Christian Rex van Minnen
June 21 — 29, 2019
Montpellier
Réalisme d’aujourd’hui
Monica Kim Garza, Erin M. Riley, Theo Triantafyllidis, Christian Rex van Minnen
December 4 — 18, 2018
Rue de Picardie, Paris, FR
Curriculum vitae
Solo and two-person exhibitions
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2023The trees and bushes beside you, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, DE
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Raisin, Eighteen Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
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2022Under The Crescent Moon, cadet capela, Paris, FR
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Sliver of Salt, Soco Gallery, Charlotte, US
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2021Baguettes, The Hole, New York, NY, US
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Summer, I Miss You, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, DE
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2020Closer, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
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Cucul, with Vincent Beaurin, cadet capela, Paris, FR
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Orange and Cinnamon, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
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2019Show show, with Vincent Beaurin, cadet capela, Paris, FR
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Laredo, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, FR
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2017Chain Hang Low, Groupe/ANON, New York, NY, US
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Rock the Boat, Lily Robert, Paris, FR
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Jangalang, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
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2015Super Soakher, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
Group exhibitions
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2023Mama, I’m Coming Home, The Intuitive Machine, Santiago, CL
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2022Framing Identity, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, US
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MIAM MIAM, curated by cadet capela, Volery Gallery, Dubai, AE
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The Human Condition, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
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2021Mixed Pickles, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, DE
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Paper Cut Bodega III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
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Lampadaphoria, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
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Play, Dallas Art Fair Projects, The Hole, Dallas, TX, US
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A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, , Taubman Museum, Virginia, VA, US
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2020Hybrids, CFHILL, Stockholm, SE
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Personal Mythologies, cadet capela, Paris, FR
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Today’s Special #1, curated by Jesper Elg, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
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Art Herning, V1 Gallery, Herning, DK
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Woman, Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens, GR
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Mine IV, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
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2019Mine III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
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PUNCH, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
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Group Show, cadet capela, Montpellier, FR
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The Beyond: Georgia O’Kieffe and Beyond, New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, New Britain, CT, US
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The Beyond: Georgia O’Kieffe and Beyond, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, US
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The thousand and one nights, Artual Gallery, Beirut, LB
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2018Réalisme d’aujourd’hui, cadet capela, Paris, FR
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Drawing room, Over The Influence, Hong Kong
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Extra, The Hole, New York, NY, US
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Art Herning, V1 Gallery, Herning, DK
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2017Nude, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
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NSFW, in collaboration with VICE, Museum of Sex, New York, NY, US
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He Fell Through So We Came Looking for You, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, SE
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2016Character, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
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Heatwave, Stephanie Chefas Gallery, Portland, OR, US
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Lifeforce, The Untitled Space, New York, NY, US
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Swimmin in the Playground, Fifty 24 SF Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
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Selfie, Stephanie Chefas Gallery, Portland, OR, US
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Cyan Project, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, DE
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2015Project P: ear, Stephanie Chefas Gallery, Portland, OR, US
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Swim, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
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Booty Worship, Super Chief Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
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2014Girl Parts, Mudfire Gallery, Atlanta, GA, US
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Editors Pick, Mudfire Gallery, Atlanta, GA, US
Fairs
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2023NADA Miami Art Fair, (Solo), Soco Gallery, Miami, US
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2022Taipei Dangdai Art Fair, cadet capela, Taipei, TW
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2021Art Brussels, Ruttkowski;68, Brussels, BE
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2019Untitled Art Fair, New Image Art, Miami, FL, US
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2018Untitled Art Fair, New Image Art, Miami, FL, US
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Tables, Pots & Plants, VOLTA 14, V1 Gallery, Basel, CH
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2016PARLOR, VOLTA 12, V1 Gallery, Basel, CH
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Art Market San Francisco, New Image Art, San Francisco, CA, US
Collections
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Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, London, GB
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Carlsberg Museum, København, DK
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Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, Shandong, CN
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Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, New York, NY, US
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The Maria Brito Art Collection, New York, NY, US
Education
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2010Painting/Drawing - BFA, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA, US