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



Frieze London, 2024, installation view, presented by Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA



Frieze London, 2024, installation view, presented by Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA



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



In Cascades, 2023-24, installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach



In Cascades, 2023-24, installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach



In Cascades, 2023-24, installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach



In Cascades, 2023-24, installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New york, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach



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



Receiver Transmitter (Butterfly) 2023–24, detail view. Photo: LF Documentation




Receiver Transmitter (Butterfly) 2023–24, detail view. Photo: LF Documentation




Mesoderm, 2023, installation view, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA. Photo: LF Documentation



Mesoderm (Synapse), 2023, Photographic paper, darkroom chemicals, oil pastel, photogram, pigmented silicone, spherical magnets, 18 x 21 in (45.7 x 53.3 cm)




Mesoderm (Seed Woman), 2022, Photograms, darkroom chemicals, spherical magnets, 40 x 32 in. (101.60 x 81.28 cm)



Mesoderm (Chime), 2022, Photograms, cast aluminum anchovies, thread, spherical magnets, 20 x 32 in (50.8 x 81.3 cm)




In Cascades, 2023, installation view, Chisenhale, London, UK Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Andy Keate



In Cascades, 2023, installation view, Chisenhale, London, UK Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Andy Keate



In Cascades, 2023, installation view, Chisenhale, London, UK Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Andy Keate



In Cascades, 2023, installation view, Chisenhale, London, UK Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Andy Keate



In Cascades, 2023, installation view, Chisenhale, London, UK Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Andy Keate



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)



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)



Atrium Project: Lotus Laurie Kang, 2023, installation view, MCA Chicago, US, Photo: Shelby Ragsdale




Atrium Project: Lotus Laurie Kang, 2023, 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. Photo: Sebastian Bach



Great Shuttle, 2021, detail view. Photo: Sebastian Bach



Great Shuttle, 2021, installation view, New Museum Triennial, New York, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach




Great Shuttle, 2021, installation view, New Museum Triennial, New York, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach




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, dimensions variable



Earth Surge, 2021, installation view, presented by Franz Kaka at Helena Anrather, New York, US. Photo: Sebastian Bach



Origin Gate, 2021, Cast aluminum lotus root, thread



Her Own Devices, 2020, installation view, Franz Kaka, Toronto. Photo: LF Documentation




Her Own Devices, 2020, installation view, Franz Kaka, Toronto. Photo: LF Documentation



Her Own Devices, 2020, detail view. Photo: LF Documentation



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, installation view, 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, installation view, Oakville Galleries at Gairloch Gardens, CA. Photo: LF Documentation



Molt, 2019, Unfixed and unprocessed photographic film (continuously sensitive), sand bags, silicone



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



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, installation view, Interstate Projects, New York, US



Carrier II, 2018/19, Pigmented Silicone, plastic bag



Line Litter, 2017, installation view, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA




Line Litter, 2017, installation view, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA



Line Litter, 2017, installation view, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA



Line Litter, 2017, detail view, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA