Kim Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Los Angeles, whose work explores the intersections of inheritance, postcolonial identity, and memory. Drawing on her second-generation Filipino American background, Garcia’s practice engages storytelling as both a conceptual framework and a material process. She works across sculpture, painting, drawing, and installation to develop alternative archives that investigate the material translation of oral histories, historical documents, and embodied memory. Using materials such as medical casting tape and resin, she examines how narratives are inscribed onto and within the body, particularly when language falters. 

Garcia is the founder of The Cold Read,an online critique group and artist collective focused on writing asa mode of care, and a co-founder of after hours gallery,a collaborative exhibition platform in Los Angeles.Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Phase Gallery, Best Practice, the Museum ofContemporary Art San Diego, Luis De Jesus, Feia, Torrance Art Museum, and Human Resources. She holds a BAin Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, and an MFA in Art from the University of California, Irvine.

Exhibitions:

The Dinner Party