• 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

2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing

Curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes 

Mar 20 - Aug 11

Lotus L. Kang’s installation, In Cascades, welcomes viewers into a world situated between inside and outside, life and regeneration, and emptiness and fullness, suggesting a constant state of becoming and transforming. The installation consists of photographic films unfurling from steel joists suspended from the ceiling and a series of floor sculptures made of tatami mattresses and cast aluminum objects. The materials are industrial, portable, modular, and open to change. Kang exposes the film—an inherently vulnerable material—to varying conditions of light in multiple locations. She refers to this process as 'tanning,” likening the film surface to skin, and bringing the materials back to ideas of the body, especially its permeable relationship with environments. Through this the artist hints at an unfixed understanding of one’s body, diasporic identity, and the processes of memory.

The eighty-first edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features seventy-one artists and collectives grappling with many of today’s most pressing issues. This Biennial is like being inside a “dissonant chorus," as participating artist Ligia Lewis described it, a provocative yet intimate experience of distinct and disparate voices that collectively probe the cracks and fissures of the unfolding moment.

The exhibition’s subtitle, Even Better Than the Real Thing, acknowledges that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is complicating our understanding of what is real, and rhetoric around gender and authenticity is being used politically and legally to perpetuate transphobia and restrict bodily autonomy. These developments are part of a long history of deeming people of marginalized race, gender, and ability as subhuman—less than real. In making this exhibition, we committed to amplifying the voices of artists who are confronting these legacies, and to providing a space where difficult ideas can be engaged and considered.

This Biennial is a gathering of artists who explore the permeability of the relationships between mind and body, the fluidity of identity, and the growing precariousness of the natural and constructed worlds around us. Whether through subversive humor, expressive abstraction, or non-Western forms of cosmological thinking, to name but a few of their methods, these artists demonstrate that there are pathways to be found, strategies of coping and healing to be discovered, and ways to come together even in a fractured time.

The 2024 Whitney Biennial is organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator and Meg Onli, Curator at Large, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes. The performance program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curator Taja Cheek. The film program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curators Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker.


Photo: Charlie Ruben for the New York Times 
Photo: Filip Wolak
Photo: Dzifah Danso

2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing

Curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes 

Mar 20 - Aug 11

Lotus L. Kang’s installation, In Cascades, welcomes viewers into a world situated between inside and outside, life and regeneration, and emptiness and fullness, suggesting a constant state of becoming and transforming. The installation consists of photographic films unfurling from steel joists suspended from the ceiling and a series of floor sculptures made of tatami mattresses and cast aluminum objects. The materials are industrial, portable, modular, and open to change. Kang exposes the film—an inherently vulnerable material—to varying conditions of light in multiple locations. She refers to this process as 'tanning,” likening the film surface to skin, and bringing the materials back to ideas of the body, especially its permeable relationship with environments. Through this the artist hints at an unfixed understanding of one’s body, diasporic identity, and the processes of memory.

The eighty-first edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features seventy-one artists and collectives grappling with many of today’s most pressing issues. This Biennial is like being inside a “dissonant chorus," as participating artist Ligia Lewis described it, a provocative yet intimate experience of distinct and disparate voices that collectively probe the cracks and fissures of the unfolding moment.

The exhibition’s subtitle, Even Better Than the Real Thing, acknowledges that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is complicating our understanding of what is real, and rhetoric around gender and authenticity is being used politically and legally to perpetuate transphobia and restrict bodily autonomy. These developments are part of a long history of deeming people of marginalized race, gender, and ability as subhuman—less than real. In making this exhibition, we committed to amplifying the voices of artists who are confronting these legacies, and to providing a space where difficult ideas can be engaged and considered.

This Biennial is a gathering of artists who explore the permeability of the relationships between mind and body, the fluidity of identity, and the growing precariousness of the natural and constructed worlds around us. Whether through subversive humor, expressive abstraction, or non-Western forms of cosmological thinking, to name but a few of their methods, these artists demonstrate that there are pathways to be found, strategies of coping and healing to be discovered, and ways to come together even in a fractured time.

The 2024 Whitney Biennial is organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator and Meg Onli, Curator at Large, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes. The performance program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curator Taja Cheek. The film program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curators Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker.


Photo: Charlie Ruben for the New York Times 
Photo: Filip Wolak
Photo: Dzifah Danso