LAURIE KANG
WORKS
CV
Laurie Kang’s work is rooted in an enduring concern with the body and the forces that shape it—political, affective and otherwise. Drawing on fields such as biology, feminist theory and science fiction, Kang stages installations that take up the body in and as a process, working with unstable, continuously sensitive materials that are functionally and metaphorically primordial and in flux.
WORKS
CV
Laurie Kang’s work is rooted in an enduring concern with the body and the forces that shape it—political, affective and otherwise. Drawing on fields such as biology, feminist theory and science fiction, Kang stages installations that take up the body in and as a process, working with unstable, continuously sensitive materials that are functionally and metaphorically primordial and in flux.
Fascia, 2021
Photogram, unfixed and tanned film, magnets
29 x 32 inches
$4000
Hollow IV, 2020
digital C-Print, pigmented silicone
12.5 x 21 inches
$2600
Her Own Devices, 2020
series of 35 unique photograms
each 20 x 24 inches, installation variable
Bodied, burgeon, 2020
Stainless steel steamer, pigmented silicone, dried lotus root, polymer clay, fruit mesh bags
19.5 x 19.5 x 7 inches
$3600 CAD
Terrene (9), 2019
Photographs, unfixed and tanned films, dibond, magnets
8 x 12 inches
$1800 CAD
Terrene (13), 2019
Photographs, unfixed and tanned films, dibond, magnets
24 x 16 inches
$1800 CAD
Terrene (17), 2019
Photographs, unfixed and tanned films, dibond, magnets
10 x 18 inches
$1800 CAD
Terrene (20), 2019
Photographs, unfixed and tanned films, dibond, magnets
12 x 16 inches
$1800 CAD
Guts, 2019
Photogram
16 x 20 inches
$2300 CAD
Guts, 2019
Photogram
16 x 20 inches
$2300 CAD
Guts, 2019
Photogram
16 x 20 inches
$2300 CAD
Guts, 2019
Photogram
20 x 24 inches
$2900 CAD
Guts, 2019
Photogram
20 x 24 inches
$2900 CAD
Guts, 2019
Photogram
20 x 24 inches
$2900 CAD
Guts, 2019
Photogram
20 x 24 inches
$2900 CAD
Laurie Kang
b. Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in Toronto, Canada
Education
2015 MFA, Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York
2008 BFA, Photography, Concordia University, Montreal
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2021 Unfixed (with Chris Curreri), Gordon Smith Gallero of Canadian Art, Vancouver
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, TPW Gallery, Toronto
2018 Blue Ferment (collaboration with Yaniya Lee), The Table, Toronto
2018 255.155.2612 (with Santiago Taccetti), Rupert, Vilnius
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, NY
2016 Becoming (with Ben Foch), LVL3 Gallery, Chicago
2015 The C is Always Coming, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2015 Deferring Diffractions, 8-11 Gallery (as a part of Villa Toronto), Toronto
2013 (Untitled), Erin Stump Projects, Toronto
Select Group Exhibitions
2021 Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2021 Mist, Foam, Drainage Ditch, Franz Kaka, 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, Sculpture Center, 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 Gestures of Comfort, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal
2019 NADA House, (presented by Franz Kaka), Governors Island, New York
2019 Formula 1: A Loud, Low Hum, CUE Art Foundation, New York
2018 Reading, Again, The Jackman Humanities Institute, Toronto
2018 Last Utterance for the Citizen King, Main Street, Toronto
2018 Four Pillars, L’inconnue, Montreal
2017 Built Like a Memory, Tag Team Studio, 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 Dust is Dancing, Forest City Gallery, London Ontario
2017 The Earth is a Trampled Garden (organized by Bryce Grates), 269 Kosciuszko, Brooklyn
2017 2nd Kamias Triennial, Quezon City, Philippines
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 (curated by Sylwia Serafinowicz), Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw
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 (curated by Julia Paoli), The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto
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 (curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk) Montreal
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 BLOG REBLOG, Signal Gallery, New York
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
Publications as Author
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, text for Nadia Belerique and Jenine Marsh at Vie D’ange, Montreal
2017 Feministry is Here, text work for exhibition, 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
2015 Murder Mystery, Visual support for collaborative project by Rosa Aiello, Tess Edmonson, Danielle St-Amour, Vienna and New York
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
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
2020 Banff Artist in Residence, Banff, Alberta
2018 Rupert Residency, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 Aldea Residency (as selected by Curatron), Bergen, Norway
2017 BRiC: Year 2067, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff
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
2010 Sparkbox Studio, Awarded residency, Picton, Ontario, June
Awards & Grants
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