Gala Porras-Kim (born 1984, Bogota, Colombia) is a Colombian-Korean-American contemporary interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles[1][2] and London.

[5] Through research and art-making, she often questions the role of museums and heritage institutions in defining and assigning meaning to cultural artefacts.

[6] Porras-Kim uses a social and political context that influences the representation of language and history to create art objects through the learning process.

[10] As a visiting scholar at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Porras-Kim researched objects from archeological sites in Mexico.

[11] Her work as artist-in-residence at the Getty Center investigated "social and political contexts that influence how language and history intersect with art.