Lotus L. Kang
Exhibitions
The Shape of a City
January 9 - February 8, 2025
Mesoderm (solo)
May 27 - June 24, 2023
Seep State
January 14 - February 18, 2023
Trip Like I Do
January 21 - February 19, 2022
Mist, Foam, Drainage Ditch
March 2 - April 3, 2021
Her Own Devices (solo)
June 29 - July 18, 2020
Dig Your Own Hole
February 7 - February 29, 2020
Line Litter (solo)
January 12 - February 4, 2017
Fairs
Art Toronto
October 24 - 27, 2024
Frieze London (solo)
October 9 - 13, 2024
NADA New York
May 2 - 5, 2024
Art Toronto
October 26 - 29, 2023
Art Toronto
October 27 - 30, 2022
The Armory Show
September 9 - 12, 2021
Papier
June 1 - June 21, 2020
NADA FAIR
May 20 - June 21, 2020
DAMA (solo)
October 30 - November 3, 2019
Art Toronto
October 25 - October 27, 2019
NADA House (solo)
May 2 - August 4, 2019
NADA Miami (solo)
December 6 - December 9, 2018
Art Toronto
October 27 - October 30, 2017
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Frieze London, 2024, installation view, presented by Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
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Frieze London, 2024, installation view, presented by Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
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In Cascades, 2023-24, Super Joist, steel, tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), silicone, photographs from the series Fleshing Out the Ghost, cast-aluminum and bronze objects, sesame seeds, adzukibeans, polyethylene, paper, plastic tangerines, duck canvas, nylon, tatami mats, cast glass, hardware, and spherical magnets, dimensions variable. Photo: Sebastian Bach
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In Cascades, 2023-24, installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach
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In Cascades, 2023-24, installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach
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In Cascades, 2023-24, installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach
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In Cascades, 2023-24, installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New york, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach
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Receiver Transmitter (Butterfly) 2023–24, Galvanized steel, polycarbonate, aluminum tubing, gum rubber, polyethylene tarp, darkroom chemicals on photographic paper, tatami mat, photographs from the series Fleshing Out the Ghost, pigmented silicone, cast aluminum enlarged kelp knot, dried lotus tubers, cast aluminum lotus tubers, lotus seeds, nylon, expanded polystyrene, compressed mugwort, cast pewter biscuits, steel tubing, Molt (New York-Toronto-): tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), spherical magnets, nylon, cast aluminum anchovies, cored and dried apple slices, cast aluminum kelp knots, spirits. Photo: LF Documentation
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Receiver Transmitter (Butterfly) 2023–24, detail view. Photo: LF Documentation
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Receiver Transmitter (Butterfly) 2023–24, detail view. Photo: LF Documentation
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Mesoderm, 2023, installation view, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA. Photo: LF Documentation
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Mesoderm (Synapse), 2023, Photographic paper, darkroom chemicals, oil pastel, photogram, pigmented silicone, spherical magnets, 18 x 21 in (45.7 x 53.3 cm)
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Mesoderm (Seed Woman), 2022, Photograms, darkroom chemicals, spherical magnets, 40 x 32 in. (101.60 x 81.28 cm)
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Mesoderm (Chime), 2022, Photograms, cast aluminum anchovies, thread, spherical magnets, 20 x 32 in (50.8 x 81.3 cm)
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In Cascades, 2023, installation view, Chisenhale, London, UK Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Andy Keate
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In Cascades, 2023, installation view, Chisenhale, London, UK Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Andy Keate
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In Cascades, 2023, installation view, Chisenhale, London, UK Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Andy Keate
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In Cascades, 2023, installation view, Chisenhale, London, UK Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Andy Keate
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In Cascades, 2023, installation view, Chisenhale, London, UK Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Andy Keate
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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)
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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)
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Atrium Project: Lotus Laurie Kang, 2023, installation view, MCA Chicago, US, Photo: Shelby Ragsdale
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Atrium Project: Lotus Laurie Kang, 2023, installation view, MCA Chicago, US, Photo: Shelby Ragsdale
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Molt, 2022, Tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), spherical magnets, cast aluminum fungus, dimensions variable
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Molt (detail), 2022, Tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), spherical magnets, cast aluminum fungus, dimensions variable
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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. Photo: Sebastian Bach
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Great Shuttle, 2021, detail view. Photo: Sebastian Bach
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Great Shuttle, 2021, installation view, New Museum Triennial, New York, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach
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Great Shuttle, 2021, installation view, New Museum Triennial, New York, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach
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Root, 2020-2021, Cast aluminum, 14.8 x 15.8 x 17 in (37.6 x 40.1 x 43.2 cm)
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Interstitium (Door) II, 2021, Photograms, unfixed film (continually sensitive), spherical magnets, cast aluminum anchovies, 80 x 32 in (203.2 x 81.3 cm)
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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, dimensions variable
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Earth Surge, 2021, installation view, presented by Franz Kaka at Helena Anrather, New York, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach
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Origin Gate, 2021, Cast aluminum lotus root, thread
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Her Own Devices, 2020, installation view, Franz Kaka, Toronto. Photo: LF Documentation
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Her Own Devices, 2020, installation view, Franz Kaka, Toronto. Photo: LF Documentation
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Her Own Devices, 2020, detail view. Photo: LF Documentation
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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
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Hull (detail), 2020, installation view, SculptureCentre, New York, US
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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
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Worm, 2020, Flex-C track, sand, cast aluminum shiso leaf, cast aluminum lotus root, powermesh
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Bloom, 2020, Mesh fruit bags, polymer clay, paint cans, reflective sheeting, cordyceps fungus
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Bloom, 2020, installation view, Oakville Galleries at Gairloch Gardens, CA. Photo: LF Documentation
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Molt, 2019, Unfixed and unprocessed photographic film (continuously sensitive), sand bags, silicone
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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
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A Body Knots (detail), 2019, Gallery TPW, Toronto, CA
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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
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Channeler, 2018-19, installation view, Interstate Projects, New York, US
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Carrier II, 2018/19, Pigmented Silicone, plastic bag
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Line Litter, 2017, installation view, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
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Line Litter, 2017, installation view, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
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Line Litter, 2017, installation view, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
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Line Litter, 2017, detail view, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA