• Lotus Laurie Kang
  • CV
  • Molt, Horizon Art Foundation
  • Mesoderm, 2022-ongoing
  • 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 Laurie Kang
CV
Molt, Horizon Art Foundation
Mesoderm, 2022-ongoing
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 Laurie Kang
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Education
2015 MFA Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York
2008 BFA Photography, Concordia University, Montreal 


Solo and Two Person Exhibitions (* indicates solo)

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*

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

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 Fascia Lines (with Katie Lyle), Projet Pangee, Montreal 
2018 A Body Knots, Gallery TPW, Toronto* 
2018 Blue Ferment (with Yaniya Lee), The Table, Toronto 
2017 In a State of Alterity (with Edit Oderbolz), Painel Gallery, Porto
2017 Line Litter, Franz Kaka, Toronto* 
2016 Nesticulations (with Martha Tuttle), In Limbo, Brooklyn
2016 Becoming (with Ben Foch), LVL3 Gallery, Chicago 
2015 The C is Always Coming, Raster Gallery, Warsaw* 
2015 Deferring Diffractions, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto*
2013 (Untitled), Erin Stump Projects, Toronto* 


Group Exhibitions

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

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

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 
2017 Asteroids & Asterisms, interview with Martha Tuttle and Mariana Garibay Raeke
2017 Guttersnipes, exhibition text for Nadia Belerique and Jenine Marsh at Vie D'ange, Montreal
2017 Feministry is Here, text work for exhibition at Mercer Union, Toronto
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 
2013 Entangles, with text/script by Tiziana La Melia, published by Colour Code Printing 
2014 Untitled (2014), TPW Silver Editions (with Moyra Davey, Public Studio)
2013 33 Circles, Mossless Magazine
2013 Untitled (Document of Untitled), Self-published

Residencies

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

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
Toronto Arts Council
Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts