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Laurie Kang
laurieka@gmail.com
b.1985 Toronto
Education
2015 MFA Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York
2008 BFA Photography, Concordia University, Montreal
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions (* indicates solo)
2020 Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka, Toronto*
2019 Eidetic Tides, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge*
2019 Beolle, Oakville Galleries, Oakville*
2018 Channeller, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn*
2018 Fascia Lines (with Katie Lyle), Projet Pangee, Montreal
2018 A Body Knots, Gallery TPW, Toronto*
2018 Blue Ferment (with Yaniya Lee), The Table, Toronto
2018 255.155.2612 (with Santiago Taccetti), Rupert, Vilnius
2017 In a State of Alterity (with Edit Oderbolz), Painel Gallery, Porto
2017 Line Litter, Franz Kaka, Toronto*
2016 Nesticulations (with Martha Tuttle), In Limbo, Brooklyn
2016 Becoming (with Ben Foch), LVL3 Gallery, Chicago
2015 The C is Always Coming, Raster Gallery, Warsaw*
2015 Deferring Diffractions, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto*
2013 (Untitled), Erin Stump Projects, Toronto*
Group Exhibitions
2020 Dig Your Own Hole, 291 Ten Eyck, Brooklyn
2020 In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, New York
2020 Other Life-Formings, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga
2019 Material Hiatus, Carl Louie, Los Angeles
2019 If I have a body, Remai Modern, Saskatoon
2019 NADA House (with Franz Kaka), Governors Island, New York
2019 Gestures of Comfort, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal
2019 Formula 1 (curated by Mira Dayal and Simon Wu), Cue Art Foundation, New York
2018 Reading, Again, The Jackman Humanities Institute, Toronto
2018 Last Utterance for the Citizen King, Main Street, Toronto
2018 Four Pillars, Linconnue, Montreal
2017 Built Like a Memory, Tag Team, Bergen Norway
2017 Commuter's Digest, Main Street, Toronto
2017 How Deep is Your Love? (organized by Jenine Marsh), Cooper Cole, Toronto
2017 Homestead, Carl Louie, London Ontario
2017 The Earth is A Trampled Garden (curated by Bryce Grates), 269 Kosciuszko, Brooklyn
2017 2nd Kamias Triennale (curated by Allison Collins and Patrick Cruz), Quezon, Philippines
2017 Dust is Dancing, Forest City Gallery, London Ontario
2017 Dust is Dancing, Modern Fuel, Kingston
2016 APEC, Ludlow 67, New York
2016 Chroma Lives, organized by Erin Alexa Freedman and Lili Huston-Herterich, Yorkville Plaza, Toronto
2016 Stoneroses 4 (hosted by Minibar),Vårberg Sweden
2016 Labor Relations (curated by Sylwia Serafinowicz), Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw
2016 Babble On, collaboration with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich, Rockaway Topless, New York
2016 Comfort Zone, The Loon, Toronto
2016 Shifting Subjecthoods, Torrance Shipman Gallery, New York
2015 The Mouth Holds the Tongue, collaborative exhibition with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich (curated by Julia Paoli), The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto
2015 Summertime in Paris: Spectiveretro, Parisian Laundry, Montreal
2015 Brain Jail, collaboration with Nadia Belerique and Lili Huston-Herterich, Jr. Projects, Toronto
2015 Wayward, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
2015 Five Successive Blows by a Gigantic Fist, CK2 Gallery, Montreal
2014 Cut Fold Rewrite, Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin
2014 Dans Cinquante Ans D'ici, Les Territoires (curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk) Montreal
2013 Sculpture: Photography as Material Collision, Camera Austria, Graz
2013 More Than Two (Let It Make Itself), The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto
2013 All of a sudden..., Platform Gallery, Winnipeg
2013 The Kitchen, Soi Fischer, Toronto
2013 All That Once Was Will Never Be Again, Gallery 295, Vancouver
2011 Proof 19, Gallery 44, Toronto
2011 The Gatherer, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto
Press
2020 Her Own Devices, review by Esmé Hogeveen, The Brooklyn Rail
2020 In Practice: Total Disbelief, review by Carlos Kong, Flash Art
2020 Laurie Kang, Beolle, review by Magdalyn Asimakis, Art Papers
2020 Laurie Kang at Oakville Galleries, review by Dan Adler, Artforum
2019 Formula 1: A Loud, Low Hum at Cue Art Foundation, review by Etty Yaniv, Artspiel
2019 Escaping the Neo-Conceptualist Bubble, review of Formula 1 at Cue Art Foundation by Thomas Micchelli, Hyperallergic
2018 Fascia Lines, review by Saelan Twerdy, Canadian Art
2018 A Body Knots, review by Jenine Marsh, Peripheral Review
2018 A Body Knots, review by Casey Mecija, CBC Arts
2018 Critics' Picks - Four Pillars, Zeenat Nagree, Artforum
2018 Four Pillars, review by Nathalie Agostini, Anniversary Magazine
2018 Four Pillars, review by Olivia Whittick, The Editorial Magazine
2018 Four Pillars, review by James D. Campbell, Whitehot Magazine
2018 How Deep is Your Love?, review by Alex Bowron, Esse Magazine
2017 Line Litter at Franz Kaka, review by Darby Milbrath, The Editorial Magazine
2017 At the galleries: of tanks, transparency and women, review by Murray White, The Toronto Star
2015 Laurie Kang: Deferring Diffractions, exhibition review by Shelby Fenlon, CMagazine Issue 127 “Poetry”
2015 Neither/Nor: Laurie Kang’s Life Fragments, interview with Yaniya Lee, Adult Mag
2015 The Contemporary Erotics of Laurie Kang, exhibition review by Alex Bowron, Momus
2015 The Editorial Magazine, In the Studio: Laurie Kang, text by Jess Carroll, images by Aaron Wynia
2013 All of a sudden..., review by Lisa Kehler, Akimbo
2013 The Kitchen, review by Sky Goodden, Blouin Artinfo Canada
2013 All That Once Was Will Never Be Again, review by Amy Fung, Akimbo
Publications/Projects/Writing
2018 Jade Windscreen Powder: Sympoietic Tissue Sludge Compostition, collaborative 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, exhibition text for Nadia Belerique and Jenine Marsh at Vie D'ange, Montreal
2017 Feministry is Here, text work for exhibition at 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
2013 Entangles, with text/script by Tiziana La Melia, published by Colour Code Printing
2014 Untitled (2014), TPW Silver Editions (with Moyra Davey, Public Studio
2013 33 Circles, Mossless Magazine
2013 Untitled (Document of Untitled), Self-published
Residencies
2020 Banff Artist in Residence, Banff, Alberta
2019 Artist in Residence, Gallery 44, Toronto
2018 Rupert Residency, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 Aldea Residency (as selected by Curatron), Bergen, Norway
2017 BRIC: Year 2067, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
2016 Interstate Projects Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Amia Prize Residency with Elad Lassry, The Art Gallery of Ontario,
2013 Soi Fischer Thematic Residency with Artie Vierkant, Toronto Island
2010 Sparkbox Studio, Awarded residency, Picton, Ontario, June
Awards/Grants
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,
2010 Exhibition Assistance Grant, OAC,
Thank you
Canada Council for the Arts
Ontario Arts Council
Toronto Arts Council
Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts