Laurie Kang

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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

Great Shuttle, 2021, New Museum Triennial, New York

Great Shuttle, 2021, New Museum Triennial, New York

Great Shuttle, 2021, New Museum Triennial, New York

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

Earth Surge, 2021, Franz Kaka and Helena Anrather

Origin Gate, 2021, Cast aluminum lotus root, thread

Fascia, 2021, Photogram, unfixed and tanned film, magnets, 29 x 32 in (73.7 x 81.3 cm)

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, SculptureCentre (New York)

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, Oakville Galleries at Gairloch Gardens

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

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, Interstate Projects, New York

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

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

Guts, 2022, Photogram, spherical magnets, 24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)

Guts, 2022, Photogram, spherical magnets, 24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)

Guts, 2012, Photogram, spherical magnets, 24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)

Guts, 2022, Photogram, spherical magnets, 24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)

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, USA
2008 BFA, Photography, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Solo Exhibitions
2023 Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (forthcoming)
2022 Mother Always Has a Mother, Mercer Union SPACE, Toronto, Canada
2021 Earth Surge, presented by Franz Kaka & Helena Anrather Gallery, Helena Anrather, New York, USA
2020 Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada
2019 Eidetic Tides, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
2019 Beolle, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
2018 Channeller, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, USA
2018 A Body Knots, TPW Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2017 Line Litter, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada
2015 The C is Always Coming, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2015 Deferring Diffractions, 8-11 Gallery (as a part of Villa Toronto), Toronto, Canada
2013 (Untitled), Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, Canada

Two-Person Exhibitions
2021 Unfixed (with Chris Curreri), Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, Vancouver, Canada
2018 Fascia Lines (with Katie Lyle), Projet Pangee, Montreal, Canada
2018 Blue Ferment (collaboration with Yaniya Lee), The Table, Toronto, Canada
2018 255.155.2612 (with Santiago Taccetti), Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 In a State of Alterity (with Edit Oderbolz), Painel Gallery, Porto, Portugal
2016 Nesticulations (with Martha Tuttle), In Limbo, Brooklyn, USA
2016 Becoming (with Ben Foch), LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, USA

Select Group Exhibitions
2022 The Heavy Light Show, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2022 Water Works, (curated by Danielle Wu), International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
2022 New Document, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
2022 Do Redo Repeat, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
2022 Trip Like I Do, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada
2021 Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial (curated by Jamillah James and Margot Norton) New Museum, New York, USA
2021 Mist, Foam, Drainage Ditch, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada
2020 The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, U’s, Diamond Valley, Alberta, Canada
2020 Dig Your Own Hole, 291 Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, USA
2020 In Practice: Total Disbelief, Sculpture Center, New York, USA
2020 Other Life-Formings, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada
2019 Material Hiatus, Carl Louie, Los Angeles, USA
2019 If I have a body, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
2019 Gestures of Comfort, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada
2019 NADA House, (presented by Franz Kaka), Governors Island, New York, USA
2019 Formula 1: A Loud, Low Hum, CUE Art Foundation, New York, USA
2018 Reading, Again, The Jackman Humanities Institute, Toronto, Canada
2018 Last Utterance for the Citizen King, Main Street, Toronto, Canada
2018 Four Pillars, L’inconnue, Montreal, Canada
2017 Built Like a Memory, Tag Team Studio, Bergen, Norway
2017 Commuter's Digest, Main Street, Toronto, Canada
2017 How Deep is Your Love? (organized by Jenine Marsh), Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
2017 Homestead, Carl Louie, London, Canada
2017 Dust is Dancing, Forest City Gallery, London,Canada
2017 The Earth is a Trampled Garden (organized by Bryce Grates), 269 Kosciuszko, Brooklyn, USA
2017 2nd Kamias Triennial, Quezon City, Philippines
2016 APEC, Ludlow 67, New York, USA
2016 Chroma Lives, organized by Erin Alexa Freedman and Lili Huston-Herterich, Yorkville Plaza, Toronto, Canada
2016 Stoneroses 4 (hosted by Minibar),Vårberg, Sweden
2016 Labor Relations (curated by Sylwia Serafinowicz), Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
2016 Babble On, collaboration with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich, Rockaway Topless, New York, USA
2016 Comfort Zone, The Loon, Toronto, Canada
2016 Shifting Subjecthoods, Torrance Shipman Gallery, New York, USA
2015 The Mouth Holds the Tongue, collaborative exhibition with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich (curated by Julia Paoli), The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2015 Summertime in Paris: Spectiveretro, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
2015 Brain Jail, collaboration with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich, Jr. Projects, Toronto, Canada
2015 Wayward, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Five Successive Blows by a Gigantic Fist, CK2 Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2014 Cut Fold Rewrite, Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin, Germany
2014 Dans Cinquante Ans D'ici, Les Territoires (curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk) Montreal, Canada
2013 Sculpture: Photography as Material Collision, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
2013 More Than Two (Let It Make Itself), The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2013 All of a sudden..., Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2013 BLOG REBLOG, Signal Gallery, New York, USA
2013 The Kitchen, Soi Fischer, Toronto, Canada
2013 All That Once Was Will Never Be Again, Gallery 295, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Proof 19, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
2011 The Gatherer, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, Canada

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 VIBRISSA, exhibition text for Thea Yabut at L’inconnue, Montreal
2018 Jade Windscreen Powder: Sympoietic Tissue Sludge Compostition, 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 & 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
2022 Emily Watlington, ‘Photographer Laurie Ditches the Image, Turning Her Medium Into a Material’, Art in America, May New Talent Issue
2022 Deborah Vankin, ’How artist Laurie Kang ‘misuses’ material to create tactile, carnal installations’, LA Times
2022 Emile Rubino, ‘Environments Within Environments’, Le Chauffage, Issue Two
2022 Domenick Ammirati, ’Under the Skin of Newness’, Artforum
2021 Vivian Chui, ’New Museum Triennial Takes a Subtle Turn’, Ocula Magazine
2021 Alex Greenberger, ‘8 Standouts at the 2021 New Museum Triennial’, ARTnews
2021 Candice Hopkins ’Evolutionary Images and the Embodied Archive’, Camera Austria
2021 Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, ’Carriers for Fiction’, Mousse Magazine
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
2022 Triangle Arts Association, New York, USA
2022 Horizon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
2020 Banff Artist in Residence, Banff, Canada
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, Canada
2016 Interstate Projects Studio Program, Brooklyn, USA
2014 Amia Prize Residency with Elad Lassry, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
2013 Soi Fischer Thematic Residency with Artie Vierkant, Toronto Island, Canada
2010 Sparkbox Studio, Awarded residency, Picton, Canada, June

Awards & Grants
2022 Long list, Sobey Art Award
2020 Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
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

Public Collections
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Fondazione Rivoli Due, Milan, Italy
Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Poland
RBC Art Collection, Toronto, Canada
TD Bank Art Collection, Toronto, Canada
Scotiabank Art Collection, Toronto, Canada

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