• Lotus L. Kang
  • CV
  • Azaleas, Commonwealth and Council
  • In Cascades, Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Receiver Transmitter (Butterfly), Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto
  • In Cascades, Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver
  • In Cascades, Chisenhale Gallery
  • Mesoderm, 2022-ongoing
  • Fleshing Out The Ghost, Deborah Schamoni
  • Mesoderm, Franz Kaka
  • Molt, MCA Chicago
  • Molt, Horizon Art Foundation
  • Do Redo Repeat, Catriona Jeffries
  • Great Shuttle, New Museum
  • Earth Surge, Helena Anrather and Franz Kaka
  • Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka
  • In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter
  • Beolle, Oakville Galleries
  • Eidetic Tides, SAAG
  • Guts
  • Terrene
  • If I have a body, Remai Modern
  • Asphodel Meadows
  • NADA House, Governors Island
  • Channeller, Interstate Projects
  • A Body Knots, Gallery TPW
  • Fascia Lines, Projet Pangee
  • Line Litter, Franz Kaka
  • How deep is your love?, Cooper Cole
  • Nesticulations, In Limbo
  • Knots
  • Babble On, Rockaway Topless
  • The Mouth Holds the Tongue, The Power Plant
  • Untitled, Erin Stump Projects
Lotus L. Kang
CV
Azaleas, Commonwealth and Council
In Cascades, Whitney Museum of American Art
Receiver Transmitter (Butterfly), Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto
In Cascades, Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver
In Cascades, Chisenhale Gallery
Mesoderm, 2022-ongoing
Fleshing Out The Ghost, Deborah Schamoni
Mesoderm, Franz Kaka
Molt, MCA Chicago
Molt, Horizon Art Foundation
Do Redo Repeat, Catriona Jeffries
Great Shuttle, New Museum
Earth Surge, Helena Anrather and Franz Kaka
Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka
In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter
Beolle, Oakville Galleries
Eidetic Tides, SAAG
Guts
Terrene
If I have a body, Remai Modern
Asphodel Meadows
NADA House, Governors Island
Channeller, Interstate Projects
A Body Knots, Gallery TPW
Fascia Lines, Projet Pangee
Line Litter, Franz Kaka
How deep is your love?, Cooper Cole
Nesticulations, In Limbo
Knots
Babble On, Rockaway Topless
The Mouth Holds the Tongue, The Power Plant
Untitled, Erin Stump Projects

CV

Lotus L. Kang

b. Toronto, Canada. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

lotuslkang@gmail.com


Education
2015 MFA Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York
2008 BFA, Concordia University, Montreal 


Solo Exhibitions

2024 Azaleas, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles

2024 Spring 2024 - Lotus L. Kang, For Seasons, Zurich

2023 In Cascades, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

2023 In Cascades, Chisenhale Gallery, London

2023 Molt (New York-Lethbridge-Los Angeles-Toronto-Chicago-), Atrium Project, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago

2022-2023 Mother Always Has a Mother, Mercer Union SPACE, Toronto

2021 Earth Surge, presented by Franz Kaka and Helena Anrather Gallery, Helena Anrather, New York

2020 Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka, Toronto

2019 Eidetic Tides, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge

2019 Beolle, Oakville Galleries, Oakville

2018 Channeller, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn
2018 A Body Knots, Gallery TPW, Toronto
2017 Line Litter, Franz Kaka, Toronto
2015 The C is Always Coming, Raster Gallery, Warsaw
2015 Deferring Diffractions, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto
2013 (Untitled), Erin Stump Projects, Toronto


Group Exhibitions

2024 Key Operators, Kunstverein Munich, Munich 

2024 After Images, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin 

2024 In an effort to be held, The Shepherd, Detroit

2024 A Woman You Thought You Knew, Kadist, San Francisco

2024 Familial Technologies, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles 

2024 Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2023 Maybe it's about bodies?, Co-organized by Et Al and Bibeau Krueger, San Francisco 

2023 Revolt of the Body, curated by Simon Wu, Tina Kim Gallery, New York

2023 This Long Century: Beginners, Dunes, Portland

2023 Fleshing Out The Ghost, Deborah Schamoni, Munich

2023 CFGNY In Residence, SculptureCenter, New York

2023 Ideal Shapes of Disappearing, Silke Lindner, New York

2023 Where have I arrived?, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto

2023 Memory Work, curated by Claire Kim, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson

2023 Brand New Ancients, curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi and Cecilia Ruggeri, Misk Art Institute, Riyadh 

2023 Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now, curated by Lauren Richman Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, Indiana

2023 We Are Story: The Canada Now Photography Acquisition, curated by Marina Dumont-Gauthier and Sophie Hackett, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

2023 Seep State, Franz Kaka, Toronto

2023 Drawings by Sculptors, Helena Anrather, New York

2022 The Heavy Light Show, Night Gallery, Los Angeles 

2022 Water Works, ISCP, Brooklyn 

2022 New Document, Cooper Cole, Toronto 

2022 Do Redo Repeat, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver 

2022 Trip Like I Do, Franz Kaka, Toronto

2021 2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, New York, Curated by Jamillah James and Margot Norton 

2021 Mist, Foam, Drainage Ditch, Franz Kaka, Toronto 

2021 Unfixed (with Chris Curreri), Gordon Smith Gallery, Vancouver, Curated by Meredith Preuss

2021 You Sit in a Garden, Centre Clark and Critical Distance, Montreal and Toronto

2020 The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, U’s, Diamond Valley, Alberta

2020 Dig Your Own Hole, 291 Ten Eyck, Brooklyn

2020 In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, New York

2020 Other Life-Formings, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga

2019 Material Hiatus, Carl Louie, Los Angeles

2019 If I have a body, Remai Modern, Saskatoon

2019 NADA House (with Franz Kaka), Governors Island, New York

2019 Gestures of Comfort, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal
2019 Formula 1, Cue Art Foundation, New York, Curated by Mira Dayal and Simon Wu
2018 Reading, Again, The Jackman Humanities Institute, Toronto

2018 Fascia Lines (with Katie Lyle), Projet Pangee, Montreal 

2018 Last Utterance for the Citizen King, Main Street, Toronto 
2018 Four Pillars, Linconnue, Montreal

2018 Blue Ferment (with Yaniya Lee), The Table, Toronto 

2017 In a State of Alterity (with Edit Oderbolz), Painel Gallery, Porto
2017 Built Like a Memory, Tag Team, Bergen Norway
2017 Commuter's Digest, Main Street, Toronto
2017 How Deep is Your Love? (organized by Jenine Marsh), Cooper Cole, Toronto
2017 Homestead, Carl Louie, London Ontario
2017 The Earth is A Trampled Garden (curated by Bryce Grates), 269 Kosciuszko, Brooklyn 
2017 2nd Kamias Triennale, Quezon, Philippines, curated by Allison Collins and Patrick Cruz

2017 Dust is Dancing, Forest City Gallery, London Ontario

2017 Dust is Dancing, Modern Fuel, Kingston
2016 APEC, Ludlow 67, New York 
2016 Chroma Lives, organized by Erin Alexa Freedman and Lili Huston-Herterich, Yorkville Plaza, Toronto
2016 Stoneroses 4 (hosted by Minibar), Vårberg Sweden 
2016 Labor Relations, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, curated by Sylwia Serafinowicz
2016 Babble On, collaboration with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich, Rockaway Topless, New York 
2016 Comfort Zone, The Loon, Toronto

2016 Nesticulations (with Martha Tuttle), In Limbo, Brooklyn

2016 Becoming (with Ben Foch), LVL3 Gallery, Chicago 
2016 Shifting Subjecthoods, Torrance Shipman Gallery, New York 
2015 The Mouth Holds the Tongue, collaborative exhibition with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich, The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Curated by Julia Paoli

2015 Summertime in Paris: Spectiveretro, Parisian Laundry, Montreal 
2015 Brain Jail, collaboration with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich, Jr. Projects, Toronto 
2015 Wayward, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver 
2015 Five Successive Blows by a Gigantic Fist, CK2 Gallery, Montreal 
2014 Cut Fold Rewrite, Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin 
2014 Dans Cinquante Ans D'ici, Les Territoires, Montreal, Curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk
2013 Sculpture: Photography as Material Collision, Camera Austria, Graz 
2013 More Than Two (Let It Make Itself), The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto 
2013 All of a sudden..., Platform Gallery, Winnipeg 
2013 The Kitchen, Soi Fischer, Toronto 
2013 All That Once Was Will Never Be Again, Gallery 295, Vancouver 
2011 Proof 19, Gallery 44, Toronto
2011 The Gatherer, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto



Press

2024 Lotus L. Kang "Azaleas", Diana SeoHyung, Flash Art 

2024 Lotus L. Kang's 'Azaleas', Sigourney Schultz, ArtAsiaPacific

2024 Familial Technologies at Commonwealth and Council, Ashlyn Ashbaugh, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles 

2024 Reviewing the Reviews: The 2024 Whitney Biennial, Jessica Lyne and Catherine G. Wagley, Momus

2024 The Alchemies of Artist Lotus L. Kang, Duncan Ballantyne-Way, Art Basel Stories

2024 Is it real? Yes, it is!, Xenia Benivolski, Texte Zur Kunst 

2024 Whitney Biennial 2024, Rachel Wetzler, Artforum

2024 Lotus L. Kang Explores Symbols of the Human Body in Her Latest Sculpture, Najma Eno, S Magazine

2024 The Best Exhibition and Art Hot Spots in Los Angeles to Visit This Summer, Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue

2024 Toronto's Artists Respond to a City in Flux, Xenia Benivolski, Frieze

2024 Five Voices from the Whitney Biennial, Sarah P. Hanson, Art Basel  

2024 A Blazing, Brilliant Whitney Biennial Heralds a New Kind of Body Art, Alex Greenberger, ARTnews

2024 Dozens of Artists, 3 Critics: Who’s Afraid of the Whitney Biennial 2024?, New York Times 

2024 ‘8 Breakout Artists of the 2024 Whitney Biennial’, Annabel Keenan, Artsy 

2024 A Whitney Biennial with No Heroes and No Villains, Emily Watlington, Art in America 

2024 The 2024 Whitney Biennial Is a Romp Through Turmoil and Abstraction, Nadja Sayej, Observer

2024 At the Whitney Biennial: Reaching for Utopia, Without Protests, Vittoria Benzine, Brooklyn Magazine

2024 ‘A superb Whitney Biennial, marred by flimsy politics’, Sebastian Smee, Washington Post 

2024 The Best Booths at Frieze Los Angeles 2024 From a New 'Mona Lisa' to Art That Changes in Real Time, Maximilliano Duron, ARTnews

2024 Working With the Lack: A Conversation with Lotus L. Kang, Chloe Ting, Afterall issue 55/56

2024 A Cascading World of Porosity, Hyunjin Kim, Afterall Issue 55/56 

2023 ‘Unpack/Reveal/Unleash: At First Blush’, Alex Bennett, Flash Art 

2023 Sacks and Skins, Or a Bag Full of Holes, Summer Kim Lee, Asia Art Archive

2023 Material Matters: Interview with Lotus Laurie Kang, Sarah Chang, ArtAsiaPacific

2023 Lotus Laurie Kang: In Cascades, cover feature and review by Ellen Mara De Wachter, Art Monthly

2023 Seven Leading Curators Predict the Defining Art Trends of 2023, Ayanna Dozier, Artsy

2022 Best of 2022: Five artworks that wormed into my brain and stayed for months, Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times

2022 Photographer Laurie Kang Ditches the Image, Turning Her Medium Into Material, exclusive pull-out print and text by Emily Watlington, Art in America Spring Issue: New Talent

2022 How artist Laurie Kang 'misuses' materials to create tactile, carnal installations, Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times

2022  Under the Skin of Newness, Domenick Ammirati, Artforum 

2021 The Gentle Force of the New Museum Triennial, Ela Bittencourt, Frieze 

2021 New Museum Triennial Takes a Subtle Turn, Vivian Chui, Ocula Magazine

2021 8 Standouts at the 2021 New Museum Triennial, Alex Greenberger, ARTnews 

2021 Evolutionary Images and the Embodied Archive, essay by Candice Hopkins, Camera Austria 

2021 Carriers for Fiction, feature by Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, Mousse Magazine

2020 Her Own Devices, Esmé Hogeveen, The Brooklyn Rail

2020 In Practice: Total Disbelief, Carlos Kong, Flash Art

2020 Laurie Kang, Beolle, Magdalyn Asimakis, Art Papers

2020 Laurie Kang at Oakville Galleries, by Dan Adler, Artforum

2019 Formula 1: A Loud, Low Hum at Cue Art Foundation, Etty Yaniv, Artspiel

2019 Escaping the Neo-Conceptualist Bubble,Thomas Micchelli, Hyperallergic
2018 Fascia Lines, Saelan Twerdy, Canadian Art
2018 A Body Knots, Jenine Marsh, Peripheral Review
2018 A Body Knots, Casey Mecija, CBC Arts
2018 Critics' Picks - Four Pillars, Zeenat Nagree, Artforum
2018 Four Pillars, Nathalie Agostini, Anniversary Magazine
2018 Four Pillars, Olivia Whittick, The Editorial Magazine
2018 Four Pillars, James D. Campbell, Whitehot Magazine
2018 How Deep is Your Love?, Alex Bowron, Esse Magazine
2017 Line Litter at Franz Kaka, Darby Milbrath, The Editorial Magazine
2017 At the galleries: of tanks, transparency and women, Murray White, The Toronto Star
2015 Laurie Kang: Deferring Diffractions, Shelby Fenlon, CMagazine Issue 127 “Poetry”
2015 Neither/Nor: Laurie Kang’s Life Fragments, interview with Yaniya Lee, Adult Mag
2015 The Contemporary Erotics of Laurie Kang, Alex Bowron, Momus
2015 The Editorial Magazine, In the Studio: Laurie Kang, text by Jess Carroll, images by Aaron Wynia
2013 All of a sudden..., Lisa Kehler, Akimbo
2013 The Kitchen, Sky Goodden, Blouin Artinfo Canada
2013 All That Once Was Will Never Be Again, Amy Fung, Akimbo

Publications/Writing

2024 Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better than the Real Thing, Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli 

2023 In Cascades, edited by Zoé Whitley and Amy Jones, Chisenhale Gallery and Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, Hurtwood Press 

2021 Soft Water Hard Stone: New Museum Triennial 2021, catalogue interview with Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Phaidon 

2021 Environments Within Environments: Interview with Felix Rapp, Le Chauffage Issue 02

2021 Laurie Kang: Story of the Gut, catalogue essay for "Unfixed" by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross
2018 Jade Windscreen Powder: Sympoietic Tissue Sludge Compostition, collaborative visual text with Tiziana La Melia, Public Journal 
2018 A Body Knots, conversation with Martha Kenney and Daniella Sanader published by Gallery TPW in conjunction with exhibition 
2013 Entangles, with text/script by Tiziana La Melia, published by Colour Code Printing 
2013 33 Circles, Mossless Magazine
2013 Untitled (Document of Untitled), Self-published

Residencies

2024 Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, New Orleans 

2022 Triangle Arts Association, New York 

2022 Horizon Art Foundation, Los Angeles 

2020 Banff Artist in Residence, Banff, Alberta

2019 Artist in Residence, Gallery 44, Toronto
2018 Rupert Residency, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 Aldea Residency (as selected by Curatron), Bergen, Norway
2017 BRIC: Year 2067, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
2016 Interstate Projects Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY 
2014 Amia Prize Residency with Elad Lassry, The Art Gallery of Ontario,
2013 Soi Fischer Thematic Residency with Artie Vierkant, Toronto Island

Awards

2024 Nancy Graves Foundation Grant

2024 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant

2024 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Fine Arts

2022 Long list, Sobey Art Award 

2019 Barbara Spohr Memorial Award, Banff Centre

2019 Long list, Sobey Art Award 

2015 Artist Prize Finalist, The Toronto Friends of Visual Artists
2012 Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography, Canada Council for the Arts


Thank you
Canada Council for the Arts
Ontario Arts Council