Lotus L. Kang Lotus L. Kang

Lotus L. Kang

Born in 1985 in Toronto, Canada. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Exhibition view: Lotus L. Kang, Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing, New York, 2024. Photo © Charlie Rubin

Introduction

Lotus L. Kang’s practice unfolds across sculpture, photography and site-responsive installation. Using an acute sensitivity towards process and space, her work reflects on impermanence, inheritance, memory, and time. 

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Selected works

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Lotus L. Kang
Receiver Transmitter (Borne), 2025
Tatami mats, gum rubber, organza, cast aluminum perilla leaves, 35mm film, photographs from the series Fleshing out the Ghost, photograph mounted on Dibond, cellophane, cast plaster, cast aluminum, cast bronze, cast silicone, paint, pigmented silicone, metallic twist tie, polypropylene, and spirits
50 x 105 x 61 cm (19 3/4 x 41 3/8 x 24 in)
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Lotus L. Kang
Azaleas II, 2025

Powder coated steel, aluminum, stainless steel, 35mm film, stepper motor, relays, controllers, stage lights, cables, upholstered wood base, cast aluminum lotus root, cast bronze lotus root, nylon, cast aluminum book (In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki), photograph of a mudflat, book (Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon), thread, metallic twist ties, cast aluminum anchovy, cast bronze cabbage leaf, cast aluminum lotus tubers, plastic tangerines, tissue paper, spirits.

Dimensions variable
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Lotus L. Kang
Synapse 15:59, 2025
Luminogram mounted on Dibond
177,2 x 126,4 cm
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Lotus L. Kang
Synapse 17:36, 2025
Luminogram mounted on Dibond
177,2 x 126,4 cm
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Lotus L. Kang
Synapse 18:16, 2025
Luminogram mounted on Dibond
177,2 x 126,4 cm
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Lotus L. Kang
Mesoderm (Born Inside Death II), 2025
Photogram, photographic paper, darkroom chemicals, ink, and oil pastel in artist's frame
40,6 x 47 cm (unframed)
48,4 x 54,7 x 4 cm (framed)
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Lotus L. Kang
Mesoderm (Empty Full IV), 2025
Photogram, photographic paper, darkroom chemicals, oil pastel, tissue paper, and organza in artist's frame
27,9 x 35,6 x 3,8 cm (unframed)
35,8 x 43,4 x 6,5 cm (framed)
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Lotus L. Kang
Molt (Woodridge-New York-Berlin-), 2024 - 2025
Tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), spherical magnets, cast aluminum kelp knots, photograph, tape, steel wire and steel tubes
304,8 x 309,9 x 127 cm (120 x 122 x 50 in)
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Lotus L. Kang
Mesoderm (Mud III), 2023 - 2025
Photogram, photographic paper, darkroom chemicals, photograph, ink, cast aluminum anchovies, nylon, and nail in artist's frame
50,8 x 40,6 x 1 cm (unframed)
58,7 x 48,4 x 4 cm (framed)

Gallery Exhibitions

Borne Lotus L. Kang

Borne

Lotus L. Kang
Esther Schipper is pleased to present Borne, Lotus L. Kang’s first solo presentation with the gallery. On view will be a large-scale Molt work from her series of photographic sculptures, and a...
November 14—December 18, 2025
Esther Schipper, Berlin

External Exhibitions

After Images

After Images

The group exhibition AFTER IMAGES proposes a recalibration of our relationship to seeing and to contemporary image culture. Departing from image-based practices like film and video, for which the Julia Stoschek Foundation...
September 12, 2024—July 20, 2025
Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin
Greater Toronto Art 2024 Triennial Exhibition With Lotus L. Kang

Greater Toronto Art 2024 Triennial Exhibition

With Lotus L. Kang
For Greater Toronto Art 2024 (GTA24), Lotus L. Kang’s new site-specific sculptural installation commissioned for GTA24 took the form of a 13-foot greenhouse. Within the greenhouse, the artist gathered a variety of...
March 22—July 28, 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto
2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing With Lotus L. Kang

2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing

With Lotus L. Kang
Curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes. The eighty-first edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features seventy-one artists...
March 20—August 11, 2024
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
In Cascades Lotus L. Kang

In Cascades

Lotus L. Kang
At the Contemporary Art Gallery, Kang presented her most recent installation, In Cascades, a scaffold of industrial steel joists sheathed with lengths of unfixed photographic films.
September 29, 2023—January 7, 2024
Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver
In Cascades Lotus L. Kang

In Cascades

Lotus L. Kang
Lotus L. Kang’s artworks evolve with time. Working across sculpture, photography, installation and drawing, the artist uses her acute sensitivity to process and site to reflect on bodies, identities, memories, and histories....
June 2—July 30, 2023
Chisenhale Gallery, London
Atrium Project: Molt Lotus L. Kang

Atrium Project: Molt

Lotus L. Kang
The MCA’s Atrium Project invites artists from all points in their careers to respond to the museum’s bright, two-story entrance through a new large-scale work. In the latest iteration of the series,...
April 8, 2023—February 11, 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Molt Lotus L. Kang

Molt

Lotus L. Kang
Horizon’s mission is to promote cultural understanding and dialogue through artistic endeavors. The Foundation’s residency program is a means to facilitate cultural exchange and support the work of promising artists in the...
February – March, 2022
Horizon Art Foundation, Los Angeles
2021 Triennial: Soft Water, Hard Stone With Lotus L. Kang

2021 Triennial: Soft Water, Hard Stone

With Lotus L. Kang
The title of the 2021 Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, is taken from a Brazilian proverb, versions of which are found across cultures: Água mole em pedra dura, tanto bate até que...
October 28, 2021—January 27, 2022
New Museum, New York
In Practice: Total Disbelief Lotus L. Kang

In Practice: Total Disbelief

Lotus L. Kang
In Practice: Total Disbelief considers artistic engagements with dimensions of doubt as they contribute to the formation of social life. Across media, the works in the exhibition engage formal tools that uphold...
January 16—March 23, 2020
SculptureCenter
Eidetic Tides Lotus L. Kang

Eidetic Tides

Lotus L. Kang
Lotus L. Kang’s entropic, deconstructed photography installations provide an embodied experience of how eidetic imagery can be carried within us. As afterimages are stored within our memories, Kang’s process-driven practice merges the...
December 19, 2019—February 16, 2020
Southern Alberta Art Gallery
Beolle Lotus L. Kang

Beolle

Lotus L. Kang
In recent years, Kang has become known for her site-responsive wall sculptures, in which industrial materials such as steel studs and track are erected and skinned with exposed, unfixed photo papers to...
October 16, 2019—January 5, 2020
Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Channeller Lotus L. Kang

Channeller

Lotus L. Kang
Flesh-colored surfaces envelop Laurie Kang’s coiling sculptures. Composed of flexible metal tracks, photographic paper and film, the twisting structure loosely frames the media creating a series of deconstructive, ambiguous vistas. A practice...
December 14, 2018—January 27, 2019
Interstate Projects, Brooklyn
A Body Knots Lotus L. Kang

A Body Knots

Lotus L. Kang
A Body Knots was a new site-responsive installation by Laurie L. Kang that coalesces several threads of the Toronto-based artist’s research into studies of genetics, science fiction, feminist theory, and her personal...
May 5—June 9, 2018
Gallery TPW, Toronto

Featured stories

Sojourner Truth Parsons & Lotus L. Kang THE MIAMI EDIT
THE MIAMI EDIT

Sojourner Truth Parsons & Lotus L. Kang

THE MIAMI EDIT
The Miami Edit is a focused series highlighting the practices and perspectives of the artists featured at this year's Art Basel Miami Beach. We look forward seeing you at our Booth J11...
December 2, 2025
Born in the 1980s, Breaking New Ground at the 15th Shanghai Biennale Ocula
Press

Born in the 1980s, Breaking New Ground at the 15th Shanghai Biennale

Ocula
Shanyu Zhong and Zian Chen write about Lotus L. Kang as one of 'four standout artists from Asia and its diaspora, all born in the 1980s,' in their review of the the...
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Greenhouse as Darkroom | Lotus Kang’s experiments The Museum of Modern Art
Video

Greenhouse as Darkroom | Lotus Kang’s experiments

The Museum of Modern Art
In this intimate artist profile, meet Lotus L. Kang as she experiments with exposing film in her studio and, uniquely, a greenhouse. Kang uses industrial-sized sheets of photographic film that she has...
Watch the film here