UCLA International Institute
Welcomes Graduating Bruins and Their Families to its
2026 Commencement Ceremony
June 13, 2026
6:30 pm in UCLA Royce Hall
Speaker: Gala Porras-Kim
Our speaker
Gala Porras-Kim, an international interdisciplinary artist who lives between Los Angeles and London and has had solo exhibitions across the world, earned a B.A. in art from UCLA in 2007 and an M.A. in Latin American studies in 2012. Her artwork focuses on the relationships that shape how we understand historical material, how such materials are preserved and framed by museums, and how these frameworks and the stories we tell about the objects change over time.
Deeply rooted in research, her artwork is part of the public collections of such museums as MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Hammer Museum, LACMA and MOCA, Los Angeles; MCA Chicago; DePaul Art Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; Seoul Museum of Art, Korea; FRAC Pays de la Loire, France; and the Tate Modern, London. See profile of Gala Porras-Kim.
See full commencement instructions here.
Tickets are available only through graduating students. The ceremony is expected to run through approximately 8:00 p.m.
