Lotus L. Kang

• Born in 1985, Toronto, Canada
  Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York City

Education

• 2015     MFA Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York, US
  2008     BFA Photography, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
   

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2026
  The Face of Desire is Loss, Bvlgari Pavilion, the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 
  Chora, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2025    
  Borne, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
  Already, 52 Walker, New York, US
  
  2024    
  Azaleas, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, US
  Spring 2024, For Seasons, Zurich, Switzerland
  
  2023    
  In Cascades, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  In Cascades, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
  Atrium Project: Lotus L. Kang, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
  
  2022    
  Mother Always Has a Mother, Mercer Union SPACE, Toronto, Canada
  
  2021    
  Earth Surge, Helena Anrather, New York, US
  
  2020    
  Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada
  
  2019    
  Eidetic Tides, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
  Beolle, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
  
  2018    
  Channeller, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, US
  A Body Knots, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada
  
  2017    
  Line Litter, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada
  
  2015    
  The C is Always Coming, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
  Deferring Diffractions, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  
  2013    
  Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2025   
  15th Shanghai Biennale: Does the flower hear the bee?, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
  What is Parasite and What is Kin?, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  The Abstract Future, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, US
  a clear veil, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, US
  And since my love is spent (an image-repertoire), Antenna-Tenna, Shanghai, China
  The shape of a city, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada
  
  2024   
  Key Operators, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany
  After Images, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, Germany
  In an effort to be held, The Shepherd, Detroit, US
  A Woman You Thought You Knew, Kadist, San Francisco, US
  Familial Technologies, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, US
  Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Maybe it's about bodies?, Et al., San Francisco, US
  
  2023
  Revolt of the Body, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  This Long Century: Beginners, Dunes, Portland, US
  Fleshing Out The Ghost, Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Germany
  CFGNY In Residence, SculptureCenter, New York, US
  Ideal Shapes of Disappearing, Silke Lindner, New York, US
  Where have I arrived?, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Canada
  Memory Work, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
  Brand New Ancients, Misk Art Institute, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, US
  We Are Story: The Canada Now Photography Acquisition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
  Seep State, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada
  Drawings by Sculptors, Helena Anrather, New York, US
  
  2022   
  The Heavy Light Show, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  Water Works, ISCP, Brooklyn, US
  New Document, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
  Do Redo Repeat, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
  Trip Like I Do, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada
  
  2021   
  2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, New York, US
  Mist, Foam, Drainage Ditch, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada
  Unfixed, Gordon Smith Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  You Sit in a Garden, Centre Clark and Critical Distance, Montreal and Toronto, Canada
  
  2020   
  The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, U's, Diamond Valley, Alberta, Canada
  Dig Your Own Hole, 291 Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, US
  In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, New York, US
  Other Life-Formings, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada
  
  2019   
  Material Hiatus, Carl Louie, Los Angeles, US
  If I have a body, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
  NADA House, Governors Island, New York, US
  Gestures of Comfort, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada
  Formula 1, Cue Art Foundation, New York, US
  
  2018   
  Reading, Again, The Jackman Humanities Institute, Toronto, Canada
  Fascia Lines, Projet Pangee, Montreal, Canada
  Last Utterance for the Citizen King, Main Street, Toronto, Canada
  Four Pillars, Linconnue, Montreal, Canada
  Blue Ferment, The Table, Toronto, Canada
  
  2017   
  In a State of Alterity, Painel Gallery, Porto, Portugal
  Built Like a Memory, Tag Team, Bergen, Norway
  Commuter's Digest, Main Street, Toronto, Canada
  How Deep is Your Love?, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
  Homestead, Carl Louie, London Ontario, Canada
  The Earth is A Trampled Garden, 269 Kosciuszko, Brooklyn, US
  2nd Kamias Triennale, Quezon, Philippines
  Dust is Dancing, Forest City Gallery, London Ontario, Canada
  Dust is Dancing, Modern Fuel, Kingston, Canada
  
  2016   
  APEC, Ludlow 67, New York, US
  Chroma Lives, Yorkville Plaza, Toronto, Canada
  Stoneroses 4, Vårberg Sweden
  Labor Relations, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
  Babble On, Rockaway Topless, New York, US
  Comfort Zone, The Loon, Toronto, Canada
  Nesticulations, In Limbo, Brooklyn, US
  Becoming, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, US
  Shifting Subjecthoods, Torrance Shipman Gallery, New York, US
  
  2015   
  The Mouth Holds the Tongue, The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Summertime in Paris: Spectiveretro, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
  Brain Jail, Jr. Projects, Toronto, Canada
  Wayward, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 
  Five Successive Blows by a Gigantic Fist, CK2 Gallery, Montreal, Canada 
  
  2014   
  Cut Fold Rewrite, Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin, Germany
  Dans Cinquante Ans D'ici, Les Territoires, Montreal, Canada
  
  2013   
  Sculpture: Photography as Material Collision, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
  More Than Two (Let It Make Itself), The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  All of a sudden..., Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
  The Kitchen, Soi Fischer, Toronto, Canada
  All That Once Was Will Never Be Again, Gallery 295, Vancouver, Canada
  
  2011   
  Proof 19, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canadaf
  The Gatherer, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, Canada

Selected Awards

• 2024    
  Nancy Graves Foundation Grant
  Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Fine Arts
  
  2022    
  Long list, Sobey Art Award
  
  2019    
  Barbara Spohr Memorial Award, Banff Centre
  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
   

Selected Residencies

• 2024   
  Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, New Orleans, US
  
  2022   
  Triangle Arts Association, New York, US
  Horizon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, US
  
  2020   
  Banff Artist in Residence, Banff, Canada
  
  2019   
  Artist in Residence, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
  
  2018   
  Rupert Residency, Vilnius, Lithuania
  
  2017   
  Aldea Residency, Bergen, Norway
  BRIC: Year 2067, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
  
  2016   
  Interstate Projects Studio Program, Brooklyn, US
  
  2014   
  Amia Prize Residency with Elad Lassry, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
  
  2013   
  Soi Fischer Thematic Residency with Artie Vierkant, Toronto Island, Canada

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
  Cc Foundation, Shanghai, China
  Fondazione Bonollo Arte Contemporanea, Thiene, Italy
  Kadist Art Foundation
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
  Rivoli Due Fondazione per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
  Tanoto Art Foundation, Singapore
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland