Monica Kim Garza is still exploring the female forms, by emphasizing the edgy contour of the body, the wavy lines of a posture, embracing with her hands the roughness of the matter. As much involved in the freedom of the characters she shapes as in that of her audience. Monica Kim Garza doesn’t want to impose any vision, any translation of her mind. Only feelings. Monica Kim Garza returns here to her practice as a sculptor. Do you have a dog? was molded from a clay prototype made during her Paris residency at Galerie Julien Cadet in the summer of 2022. It has been a few years since her last volume productions. In her 2010 and 2018 ceramics artworks series, Monica explored animal shapes, sometimes flirting with utility, she intervened by painting on their surface scenes and characters. As her first bronze, the piece has that specificity of being in a direct continuity with her recent paintings.

Curriculum Vitae
Education
  • 2010

    BFA, Painting & Drawing, California College of Arts, San Francisco, United States

Solo and Two-Persons Exhibitions
  • 2022

    “Under The Crescent Moon”, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France

  • 2022

    “Sliver of Salt”, Soco Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

  • 2021

    “Baguettes”, The Hole, New York, New York, United States

  • 2021

    “Summer, I Miss You”, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, Germany

  • 2020

    “Closer”, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Danemark

  • 2020

    “Cucul”, with Vincent Beaurin, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France

  • 2020

    “Orange and Cinnamon”, New Image Art, Los Angeles, California, United States

  • 2019

    “Show show”, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France

  • 2019

    “Laredo”, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Danemark

  • 2017

    “Chain Hang Low”, Groupe/ANON, New York, United States

  • 2017

    “Rock the Boat”, Lily Robert, Paris, France

  • 2017

    “Jangalang”, New Image Art, Los Angeles, California, United States

  • 2015

    “Super Soakher”, New Image Art, Los Angeles, California, United States

Group Exhibitions
  • 2023

    “Collection of Rarities”, Bomma, Paris, France

  • 2022

    “Framing Identity”, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

  • 2022

    Taipei Dangdai Art Fair, Galerie Julien Cadet, Taipei, Taiwan

  • 2022

    “MIAM MIAM”, curated by Galerie Julien Cadet, Volery Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • 2022

    “The Human Condition”, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 2021

    “Mixed Pickles”, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, Denmark

  • 2021

    “Paper Cut Bodega III”, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 2021

    Art Brussels, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, Germany

  • 2021

    “Lampadaphoria”, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 2021

    “Play”, The Hole, New York at Dallas Art Fair Projects

  • 2021

    “A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection”, Taubman Museum, Virginia, United States

  • 2020

    “Hybrids”, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2020

    “Personal Mythologies”, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France

  • 2020

    “Today’s Special #1”, curated by Jesper Elg, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 2020

    “Art Herning”, with V1 Gallery, Herning, Denmark

  • 2020

    “Woman”, Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens, Greece

  • 2020

    “Mine IV“, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 2019

    “Mine III”, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 2019

    Untitled Art Fair, New Image Art, Miami, Florida, United States

  • 2019

    “PUNCH”, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, United States

  • 2019

    Group Show, Galerie Julien Cadet, Montpellier, France

  • 2019

    “The Beyond: Georgia O’Kieffe and Beyond”, New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut, United States

  • 2019

    “The Beyond: Georgia O’Kieffe and Beyond”, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

  • 2019

    “The thousand and one nights”, Artual Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

  • 2018

    “Réalisme d’aujourd’hui”, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France

  • 2018

    “Untitled Art Fair”, New Image Art, Miami, United States

  • 2018

    “Drawing room”, Over The Influence, Hong Kong

  • 2018

    “Extra”, The Hole, New York, United States

  • 2018

    “Tables, Pots & Plants”, V1 Gallery at VOLTA14, Basel, Switzerland

  • 2018

    “Art Herning”, V1 Gallery, Herning, Denmark

  • 2017

    “Nude”, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 2017

    “NSFW”, Museum of Sex in collaboration with VICE, New York United States

  • 2016

    “He Fell Through So We Came Looking for You”, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2016

    “Character”, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 2015

    “Heatwave”, Stephanie Chefas Gallery, Portland, Oregon, United States

  • 2015

    “Lifeforce”, The Untitled Space, New York, United States

  • 2016

    “The Parlor”, Art Basel, with V1 Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

  • 2016

    “Swimmin in the Playground”, Fifty 24 SF Gallery, San Francisco, United States

  • 2016

    Art Market San Francisco: Contemporary Art Fair, New Image Art, San Francisco, United States

  • 2016

    “Selfie”, Stephanie Chefas Gallery, Portland, Oregon, United States

  • 2016

    “Cyan Projects”, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, Germany

  • 2015

    “Project P: ear“, Stephanie Chefas Gallery, Portland, Oregon, United States

  • 2015

    “Swim”, New Image Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States

  • 2015

    “Booty Worship”, Super Chief Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States

  • 2014

    “Girl Parts”, Mudfire Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

  • 2014

    “Editors Pick”, Mudfire Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Publishing
  • 2022

    Do you have a dog? Bronze sculpture, Bomma, France

Works
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A dozen more oysters s’il vous plaît, Oil on Canvas, 165,4 × 246.9 cm, Under the Crescent Moon show, Courtesy of Monica Kim Garza and Galerie Julien Cadet, © Credits photo: Thomas Marroni

From left to right: Apéritif, Paris Blues, Spritz, Oil on canvas, Under the Crescent Moon show, Courtesy of Monica Kim Garza and Galerie Julien Cadet, © Credits photo: Thomas Marroni

핫도그 (Corndog), 2021, Oil, acrylic, glitter, embroidery string, felt on canvas, 142.5 × 178.1 cm, ©Monica Kim Garza, courtesy of Monica Kim Garza and The Hole

Do you have a dog?,Untitled ,2022, Bronze, Charcoal on paper ©Monica Kim Garza, courtesy of Monica Kim Garza and Bomma

What do you want to drink?, 2020-2021, Oil, oil pastel, acrylic, glitter on canvas, 150 × 200 cm, ©Monica Kim Garza, courtesy of Monica Kim Garza

French Baguette study 3, 2021, Charcoal on newsprint, 60 × 91 cm, ©Monica Kim Garza, courtesy of Monica Kim Garza and the Hole

Lost in thought, 2022, Oil on canvas, 162 × 142 cm, ©Monica Kim Garza, courtesy of Monica Kim Garza and V1

Cafe Menu, 2022, Oil on canvas, 76 × 101 cm, ©Monica Kim Garza, courtesy of Monica Kim Garza and the Hole