Kim Garcia Artist Talk

Artist lecture with Kim Garcia Saturday May 31st 4pm

Kim Garcia is an artist working in sculpture, drawing, and painting. Her practice centers on oral storytelling to explore the complexities of inheritance, postcolonial identity, and memory. Kim comes from a background in creating collaborative community projects that often employ alternative spaces to explore studio art practices, site-specific collaboration, and museum and exhibition research. She is the founder of The Cold Read, an online critique group and artist collective that engages gestures of care and support through writing and is one of the co-founders of after hours gallery, an art gallery in Los Angeles that hosts two-person exhibitions. Kim has had solo exhibitions at Phase Gallery (2023), Best Practice (2019), and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2017) and has exhibited in group exhibitions at Luis De Jesus, Feia, ICALA, Torrance Art Museum, and Human Resources. Kim is based in Los Angeles and received her BA from UC San Diego and her MFA from UC Irvine.

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