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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
2025 Already, 52 Walker, New York
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
2025 The Abstract Future, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
2025 a clear veil, curated by Cicely Haggerty, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson
2025 And since my love is spent (an image-repertoire), curated by Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, Antenna-Tenna, Shanghai
2025 The shape of a city, Franz Kaka, Toronto
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
2025 Lotus L. Kang on Channeling Poetry, Memory and Spirits into Her New Work, J. Cabelle Ahn, Artnet
2025 To do: May 21-June 4, Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine
2025 Critics' Pick - Lotus L. Kang at 52 Walker, Eana Kim, Artforum
2025 The Liminal Words of Lotus L. Kang, cover feature and profile by Simon Wu, Frieze
2025 Leaky Fractals, Phillip Pyle, Family Style
2025 A poetic portrait, profile by Qianfan Gu, Blau International
2025 6 Under the Radar Shows to see in New York, Vogue
2025 7 Shows to See During Frieze New York, Annabel Keenan, Frieze
2025 Here are the 12 Must-See Gallery Exhibitions in New York this Spring, Stephanie Wong, Cultured Mag
2025 April's Must-See Art Shows in NYC and Beyond, Harry Tafoya, Paper
2025 The New York Shows You Need to See this Spring, Elephant
2025 Ten Artists to Watch in 2025, Frieze
2024 The Breakout Stars of 2024, New York Times
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