Receiver Transmitter (Intervertebral), 2023, Tatami mat, sheet silicone, cast aluminum intervertebral discs, cast aluminum shiitake, cast aluminum lotus root, cast bronze lotus root, sesame seeds, nylon, photographs from the series Fleshing Out The Ghost, 3.5 x 39.4 x 45.3 in (9 x 100 x 115 cm)
Molt (Toronto-London-), 2023, Tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), spherical magnets, dimensions variable
Receiver Transmitter (Viola Mandshurica), 2023, Tatami mat, cast aluminum cabbage, pigmented silicone, photographic paper, darkroom chemicals, sheet silicone, paper, tangerines, photographs from the series Fleshing Out The Ghost, 15.7 x 19.7 x 57.5 in (40 x 50 x 146 cm)
Mesoderm (Chime), 2022, Photograms, cast aluminum anchovies, thread, spherical magnets, 20 x 32 in (50.8 x 81.3 cm)
Mesoderm (Synapse), 2023, Photographic paper, darkroom chemicals, oil pastel, photogram, pigmented silicone, spherical magnets, 18 x 21 in (45.7 x 53.3 cm)
Atrium Project: Lotus Laurie Kang, Installation view, MCA Chicago, US, photo: Shelby Ragsdale
Atrium Project: Lotus Laurie Kang, Installation view, MCA Chicago, US, photo: Shelby Ragsdale
Molt, 2022, Tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), spherical magnets, cast aluminum fungus, dimensions variable
Molt (detail), 2022, Tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), spherical magnets, cast aluminum fungus, dimensions variable
Great Shuttle, 2020-2021, Flex track, steel studs, airline cable, hardware, unfixed and continually sensitive film, photograms, spherical magnets, silicone, thread, cast aluminum anchovies, lotus root, perilla leaf, and cabbage leaf
Great Shuttle, 2021, New Museum Triennial, New York, US
Great Shuttle, 2021, New Museum Triennial, New York, US
Great Shuttle, 2021, New Museum Triennial, New York, US
Root, 2020-2021, Cast aluminum, 14.8 x 15.8 x 17 in (37.6 x 40.1 x 43.2 cm)
Interstitium (Door) II, 2021, Photograms, unfixed film (continually sensitive), spherical magnets, cast aluminum anchovies, 80 x 32 in (203.2 x 81.3 cm)
Mother, 2019-ongoing, Stainless steel mixing bowls, pigmented silicone, rubber, polymer clay, power mesh, paint can, cordyceps fungus, steel machinery, peach pit, lotus seed, pewter, cast aluminum ginseng, cast aluminum cabbage, cast aluminum peach pit, cast aluminum dried lotus root, cast aluminum Asian pears, cast aluminum clay forms, aluminum mesh, sand bag, plastic wrap, copper chainmaille made by Hanna Hur, reflective foil, plastic bags, copper garden mesh, mung beans, water, dried fish bladder, dried magnolia flowers, dried hibiscus, ground mung and adzuki beans, cast bronze, hats, rosin paper
Earth Surge, 2021, Franz Kaka and Helena Anrather
Origin Gate, 2021, Cast aluminum lotus root, thread
Fascia, 2021, Photogram, unfixed and tanned film, magnets, 29 x 32 in (73.7 x 81.3 cm)
Hull, 2020, Flex-C track, steel studs, silicone, Haraboji’s crushed pastels, photographs, unfixed, photographic papaer, darkroom chemicals and films (continually sensitive), aluminum cast dired anchovies, magnets
Hull (detail), 2020, SculptureCentre, New York, US
Mother, 2019-ongoing, Stainless steel mixing bowls, pigmented silicone, rubber, polymer clay, power mesh, paint can, cordyceps fungus, steel machinery, peach pit, lotus seed, pewter, cast aluminum ginseng, cast aluminum cabbage, cast aluminum peach pit, cast aluminum dried lotus root, cast aluminum Asian pears, cast aluminum clay forms, aluminum mesh, sand bag, plastic wrap, copper chainmaille made by Hanna Hur, reflective foil, plastic bags, copper garden mesh, mung beans, water, dried fish bladder, dried magnolia flowers, dried hibiscus, ground mung and adzuki beans, cast bronze, hats, rosin paper
Worm, 2020, Flex-C track, sand, cast aluminum shiso leaf, cast aluminum lotus root, powermesh
Bloom, 2020, Mesh fruit bags, polymer clay, paint cans, reflective sheeting, cordyceps fungus
Bloom, 2020, Oakville Galleries at Gairloch Gardens, CA
Molt, 2019, Unfixed and unprocessed photographic film (continuously sensitive), sand bags, silicone
Fascia, Larval, In, Out, 2018/2019, Flex-C track, steel studs, airline cable, hardware, unfixed and unprocessed photographic paper and darkroom chemicals (continually sensitive), unfixed film (continually sensitive), magnets, conduit, electrical box, pigmented silicone
Channeler, 2018/19, Interstate Projects, New York, US
Carrier II, 2018/19, Pigmented Silicone, plastic bag
A Body Knots, 2019, Unfixed, unprocessed photographic paper and darkroom chemicals (continually sensitive), Duratrans film, Fujitrans film, magnets, flex track, steel studs, airline cable, hardware
A Body Knots (detail), 2019, Gallery TPW, Toronto, CA
Guts, 2022, Photogram, spherical magnets, 24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
Guts, 2022, Photogram, spherical magnets, 24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
Guts, 2012, Photogram, spherical magnets, 24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
Guts, 2022, Photogram, spherical magnets, 24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
Lotus L. Kang
b. Toronto, CA
Lives and works in Toronto, CA
Education
2015 MFA, Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York, US
2008 BFA, Photography, Concordia University, Montreal, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2023 In Cascades, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK & Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2023 Mesoderm, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2023 Molt (New York-Lethbridge-Los Angeles-Toronto-Chicago-), Atrium Projects, MCA Chicago, US
2022 Mother Always Has a Mother, Mercer Union SPACE, Toronto, CA
2021 Earth Surge, presented by Franz Kaka & Helena Anrather Gallery, Helena Anrather, New York, US
2020 Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2019 Eidetic Tides, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, CA
2019 Beolle, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, CA
2018 Channeller, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, US
2018 A Body Knots, TPW Gallery, Toronto, CA
2017 Line Litter, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2015 The C is Always Coming, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2015 Deferring Diffractions, 8-11 Gallery (Villa Toronto), Toronto, CA
2013 (Untitled), Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, CA
Two-Person Exhibitions
2021 Unfixed (w. Chris Curreri), Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, Vancouver, CA
2018 Fascia Lines (w. Katie Lyle), Projet Pangee, Montreal, CA
2018 Blue Ferment (collaboration with Yaniya Lee), The Table, Toronto, CA
2018 255.155.2612 (w. Santiago Taccetti), Rupert, Vilnius, LT
2017 In a State of Alterity (w. Edit Oderbolz), Painel Gallery, Porto, PT
2016 Nesticulations (w. Martha Tuttle), In Limbo, Brooklyn, US
2016 Becoming (w. Ben Foch), LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, US
Select Group Exhibitions
2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum, New York, US
2024 Greater Toronto Art 2024, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, CA
2024 Maybe it's about bodies?, Et al., San Francisco, US
2023 Revolt of the Body, (curated by Simon Wu), Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
2023 This Long Century: Beginners, Dunes, Portland, ME, US
2023 CFGNY in Residence, SculptureCenter, New York, US
2023 Fleshing Out The Ghost, Deborah Schamoni, Munich, DE
2023 Ideal Shapes of Disappearing, Silke Lindner, New York, US
2023 Memory Work, Hessel Museum of Art (curated by Claire Kim), Annandale-on-Hudson, US
2023 Where have I arrived?, (curated by Sherry Chunqing Liu), Art Museum at the University of Toronto, CA
2023 Brand New Ancients, (curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi and Cecilia Ruggeri), Misk Art Institute, Riyadh, SA
2023 Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now, (curated by Lauren Richman), Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, US
2023 We Are Story: The Canada Now Photography Acquisition, (curated by Marina Dumont-Gauthier and Sophie Hackett), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
2023 Seep State, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2023 Drawings by Sculptors, Helena Anrather, New York, US
2022 The Heavy Light Show, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2022 Water Works, (curated by Danielle Wu), International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, US
2022 New Document, Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA
2022 Do Redo Repeat, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, CA
2022 Trip Like I Do, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2021 Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial (curated by Jamillah James and Margot Norton) New Museum, New York, US
2021 Mist, Foam, Drainage Ditch, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2020 The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, U’s, Diamond Valley, Alberta, CA
2020 Dig Your Own Hole, 291 Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, US
2020 In Practice: Total Disbelief, Sculpture Center, New York, US
2020 Other Life-Formings, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, CA
2019 Material Hiatus, Carl Louie, Los Angeles, US
2019 If I have a body, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, CA
2019 Gestures of Comfort, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, CA
2019 NADA House, (presented by Franz Kaka), Governors Island, New York, US
2019 Formula 1: A Loud, Low Hum, CUE Art Foundation, New York, US
2018 Reading, Again, The Jackman Humanities Institute, Toronto, CA
2018 Last Utterance for the Citizen King, Main Street, Toronto, CA
2018 Four Pillars, L’inconnue, Montreal, CA
2017 Built Like a Memory, Tag Team Studio, Bergen, NO
2017 Commuter's Digest, Main Street, Toronto, CA
2017 How Deep is Your Love? (organized by Jenine Marsh), Cooper Cole, Toronto, C
2017 Homestead, Carl Louie, London, CA
2017 Dust is Dancing, Forest City Gallery, London, CA
2017 The Earth is a Trampled Garden (organized by Bryce Grates), 269 Kosciuszko, Brooklyn, US
2017 2nd Kamias Triennial, Quezon City, PH
2016 APEC, Ludlow 67, New York, US
2016 Chroma Lives, organized by Erin Alexa Freedman and Lili Huston-Herterich, Yorkville Plaza, Toronto, CA
2016 Stoneroses 4 (hosted by Minibar),Vårberg, SE
2016 Labor Relations (curated by Sylwia Serafinowicz), Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL
2016 Babble On, collaboration with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich, Rockaway Topless, New York, US
2016 Comfort Zone, The Loon, Toronto, CA
2016 Shifting Subjecthoods, Torrance Shipman Gallery, New York, US
2015 The Mouth Holds the Tongue, collaborative exhibition with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich (curated by Julia Paoli), The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, CA
2015 Summertime in Paris: Spectiveretro, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, CA
2015 Brain Jail, collaboration with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich, Jr. Projects, Toronto, CA
2015 Wayward, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2015 Five Successive Blows by a Gigantic Fist, CK2 Gallery, Montreal, CA
2014 Cut Fold Rewrite, Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin, DE
2014 Dans Cinquante Ans D'ici, Les Territoires (curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk) Montreal, CA
2013 Sculpture: Photography as Material Collision, Camera Austria, Graz, AT
2013 More Than Two (Let It Make Itself), The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, CA
2013 All of a sudden..., Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, CA
2013 BLOG REBLOG, Signal Gallery, New York, US
2013 The Kitchen, Soi Fischer, Toronto, CA
2013 All That Once Was Will Never Be Again, Gallery 295, Vancouver, CA
2011 Proof 19, Gallery 44, Toronto, CA
2011 The Gatherer, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, CA
Publications/ Writing
2023 Lauren Richman, ‘Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now’ catalogue
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 VIBRISSA, exhibition text for Thea Yabut at L’inconnue, Montreal, CA
2018 Jade Windscreen Powder: Sympoietic Tissue Sludge Compostition, 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
2017 Asteroids & Asterisms, interview with Martha Tuttle and Mariana Garibay Raeke
2017 Guttersnipes, text for Nadia Belerique and Jenine Marsh at Vie D’ange, Montreal, CA
2017 Feministry is Here, text work for exhibition, Mercer Union, Toronto, CA
2016 The Capilano Review, Issue 15, collaborative collage with Tiziana La Melia
2016 Padded Leak, Video project in collaboration with Tiziana La Melia for inaugural issue of MICE Magazine
2015 Murder Mystery, Visual support for collaborative project by Rosa Aiello, Tess Edmonson, Danielle St-Amour, Vienna, AT & New York, USA
2013 Entangles, with text by Tiziana La Melia, published by Colour Code Printing
2014 Untitled (2014), TPW Silver Editions (with Moyra Davey and Public Studio)
2013 33 Circles, Mossless Magazine
2013 Untitled (Document of Untitled), Self-published
Press
2024 Xenia Benivolski, ‘Toronto’s Artists Respond to a City in Flux’, Frieze
2023 Alex Bennett,‘Unpack/Reveal/Unleash: At First Blush’, Flash Art
2023 Summer Kim Lee, ‘Sacks and Skins, Or a Bag Full of Holes’, Asia Art Archive
2023 Sarah Chang, ‘Material Matters: Interview with Lotus Laurie Kang’, ArtAsiaPacific
2023 Ellen Mara De Wachter, ‘Lotus Laurie Kang: In Cascades’, Art Monthly
2023 Ayanna Dozier, ‘Seven Leading Curators Predict the Defining Art Trends of 2023’, Artsy.net
2022 Deborah Vankin, ‘Best of 2022: Five artworks that wormed into my brain and stayed for months’, LA Times
2022 Emily Watlington, ‘Photographer Laurie Kang Ditches the Image, Turning Her Medium Into a Material’, Art in America, May New Talent Issue
2022 Deborah Vankin, ‘How artist Laurie Kang 'misuses' material to create tactile, carnal installations’, LA Times
2022 Emile Rubino, ‘Environments Within Environments’, Le Chauffage, Issue Two
2022 Domenick Ammirati, ‘Under the Skin of Newness’, Artforum
2021 Vivian Chui, ‘New Museum Triennial Takes a Subtle Turn’, Ocula Magazine
2021 Alex Greenberger, ‘8 Standouts at the 2021 New Museum Triennial’, ARTnews
2021 Candice Hopkins ‘Evolutionary Images and the Embodied Archive’, Camera Austria
2021 Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, ‘Carriers for Fiction’, Mousse Magazine
2020 Esmé Hogeveen ‘Her Own Devices’, Brooklyn Rail
2020 Yaniya Lee, ‘Editor’s Pick’, Canadian Art
2020 Carlos Kong, ‘In Practice: Total Disbelief', Flash Art
2020 Magdalyn Asimakis, ‘Laurie Kang, Beolle’, Art Papers
2020 Dan Adler, ‘Laurie Kang at Oakville Galleries’, Artforum
2019 Etty Yaniv, ‘Formula 1: A Loud, Low Hum at Cue Art Foundation’, Artspiel
2019 Thomas Micchelli, ‘Escaping the Neo-Conceptualist Bubble’, Hyperallergic
2018 Saelan Twerdy, ‘Fascia Lines’, Canadian Art
2018 Jenine Marsh, ‘A Body Knots’, Peripheral Review
2018 Casey Mecija, ‘A Body Knots’, CBC Arts
2018 Zeenat Nagree, ‘Critics Pick’, Artforum.com
2018 Nathalie Agonstini, ‘Four Pillars’, Anniversary Magazine
2018 Olivia Whittick, ‘Four Pillars’, The Editorial Magazine
2018 James D. Campbell, ‘Four Pillars’, Whitehot Magazine
2018 Alex Bowron, ‘How Deep is Your Love?’, Esse
2017 Brittany Sheppard, ‘In the Studio with Laurie Kang’, Canadian Art online
2017 Darby Milbrath, ‘Line Litter’, The Editorial Magazine
2017 Murray White, ‘At the galleries: of tanks, transparency and women’, Toronto Star
2015 Shelby Fenlon, ‘Laurie Kang: Deferring Diffractions’, CMagazine, Issue 127
2015 Yaniya Lee, ‘Neither/Nor: Laurie Kang’s Life Fragments’, Adult Mag
2015 Alex Bowron, ‘The Contemporary Erotics of Laurie Kang’, Momus
2015 Jess Carroll, ‘In the Studio: Laurie Kang’, The Editorial Magazine
2013 Lisa Kehler, ‘All of a sudden…’, Akimbo
2013 Sky Gooden, ‘The Kitchen’, Blouin Artinfo Canada
2013 Amy Fung, ‘All That Once Was Will Never Be Again’, Akimbo
Residencies
2022 Triangle Arts Association, New York, US
2022 Horizon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, US
2020 Banff Artist in Residence, Banff, CA
2018 Rupert Residency, Vilnius, LT
2017 Aldea Residency (as selected by Curatron), Bergen, NO
2017 BRiC: Year 2067, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, CA
2016 Interstate Projects Studio Program, Brooklyn, US
2014 Amia Prize Residency with Elad Lassry, The Art Gallery of Ontario, CA
2013 Soi Fischer Thematic Residency with Artie Vierkant, Toronto Island, CA
2010 Sparkbox Studio, Awarded residency, Picton, CA
Awards & Grants
2022 Long list, Sobey Art Award
2020 Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2020 Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Residencies Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2019 Barbara Spohr Memorial Award, Banff Centre
2019 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Long list, Sobey Art Award
2018 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2018 Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2017 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2016 Visual Artists Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2016 Emerging Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2015 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2015 Artist Prize Finalist, The Toronto Friends of Visual Artists
2013 Emerging Visual Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2012 Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography, Canada Council for the Arts
2012 Visual Artists Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2012 Emerging Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2012 Exhibition Assistance Grant, OAC
2011 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2011 National and International Residency Grant, OAC
2011 Exhibition Assistance Grant, OAC
2010 Access and Career Development Grant, OAC
Collections
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
KADIST Art Collection, Paris, FR
Fondazione Rivoli Due, Milan, IT
Wrocław Contemporary Museum, PL
RBC Corporate Art Collection, Toronto, CA
TD Bank Art Collection, Toronto, CA
Scotiabank Art Collection, Toronto, CA