Monica Kim Garza

Monica Kim Garza is an American painter.

Biography

Monica Kim Garza was born in Alamogordo in January, New Mexico to a Korean mother and a Mexican father. She grew up in Georgia and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. 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.

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? Framing Identity and the Body at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.
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.
In 2021, Monica Kim Garza had her first solo exhibition in New York called Baguettes at the Hole.
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.