Lotus Kang was born in 1985 in Toronto. She lives in New York.
Lotus Kang’s practice spans sculpture, photography and site-responsive installation, exploring impermanence, inheritance, memory and time. Often working with unstable materials, she develops a visual language in which structural, organic and entropic forms converge, considering the self and its environment as contingent, continuous and inseparable.
Kang frequently transforms photographic paper and film, whose light-sensitive surfaces register traces of architecture, bodies, humidity and light. Lengths of unfixed industrial film—“skins,” as she calls them—drape over structures or hang from ceilings, their shadowy markings producing layered temporalities and evoking organic forms. Drawing on industrial and architectural structures, familial and social histories, poetry and non-human figures, Kang’s installations remain fluid, materially dense and deliberately unresolved.
Recent solo exhibitions include The face of desire is loss, Bulgari Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale (2026); I hear the hollow boom of time, Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2026); Casket, Mendes Wood, Germantown (2026); Chora, Kukje Gallery, Seoul (2026); Borne, Esther Schipper, Berlin (2026); Already, 52 Walker, New York (2025). Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; and The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, among others.
Her work is represented by Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles), Esther Schipper (Berlin, New York, Paris, Seoul), Franz Kaka (Toronto), and Kukje Gallery (Seoul).
