Monica Kim Garza

Monica Kim Garza was born in Alamogordo in January, New Mexico to a Korean mother and a Mexican father.{{Cite web |title=Ones to Watch 2017: artist Monica Kim Garza |url=https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/ones-to-watch-2017-artist-monica-kim-garza-030117 |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=www.itsnicethat.com |language=en}} She grew up in Georgia and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in painting and drawing from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.{{Cite web |last=Macabasco |first=Lisa Wong |date=2021-10-07 |title=Monica Kim Garza's Journey from Selling Chicken Wings to Showing Her Paintings around the World |url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-monica-kim-garzas-journey-selling-chicken-wings-showing-paintings |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Artsy |language=en}} She specializes in depicting women of color of all shapes and sizes, carefree and ethnically and racially ambiguous, and is known for her nudes, contemporary portraits and sculptures.{{Cite web |title=Monica Kim Garza |url=https://the.loeuvre.co/monica-kim-garza/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=The L'Oeuvre}}

• From June 24, 2022 to January 7, 2023, Monica Kim Garza’s painting If You Like Piña Coladas was featured in the exhibition, i know you are, but what am i? (De)Framing Identity and the Body at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.{{Cite web |last=Roka |first=Les |date=2022-07-13 |title=Exhibitions about identity, body positivity, best of Utah design arts, a tribute to a beloved grandmother, artistic reflection on human mortality and realism highlight summer shows at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art |url=https://www.theutahreview.com/exhibitions-about-identity-body-positivity-best-of-utah-design-arts-a-tribute-to-a-beloved-grandmother-artistic-reflection-on-human-mortality-and-realism-highlight-summer-shows-at-utah-museum-of-c/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=The Utah Review |language=en-US}}
• Monica Kim Garza’s artwork was exhibited along with 56 other artists in the exhibition A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience at the Taubman Museum of Art, in Roanoke, Virginia, from October 3, 2020 to February 7, 2021.{{Cite web |title=A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience |url=https://www.taubmanmuseum.org/exhibition/a-very-anxious-feeling-voices-of-unrest-in-the-american-experience/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Taubman Museum of Art |language=en-US}}
• In 2021, Monica Kim Garza had her first solo exhibition in New York called Baguettes at the Hole.{{Cite web |title=The Hole Contemporary art gallery New York and Los Angeles |url=https://thehole.com/news/monica-kim-garza |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=thehole.com}}
• Monica Kim Garza was featured in the exhibition NSFW: Female Gaze, from June 21, 2017 to November 11, 2018, at the Museum of Sex in New York.{{Cite web |title=NSFW: Female Gaze |url=https://www.museumofsex.com/exhibitions/nsfw-female-gaze/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Museum of Sex |language=en-US}}

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• [http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2017/0A6C “NSFW Female Gaze” Exhibition]
• [https://utahmoca.org/exhibition/i-know-you-are-but-what-am-i-deframing-identity-and-the-body/#:~:text=Norman%2C%20%C2%A9%20UMOCA-,i%20know%20you%20are%2C%20but%20what%20am%20i%3F%20 i know you are, but what am i? (De)Framing Identity and the Body]
• [https://www.cadetcapela.com/cucul MONICA KIM GARZA & VINCENT BEAURIN Cucul]
• [https://www.artofchoice.co/natural-women-by-monica-kim-garza/ NATURAL WOMEN BY MONICA KIM]
• [https://www.lindseyokubo.com/monica-kim-garza-on-coming-home Monica Kim Garza: On Coming Home]

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Category:1988 births

Category:People from Alamogordo, New Mexico

Category:Living people

Category:American painters