VENICE.- Known for her complexly layered environments that meld organic, structural and metabolic languages, Lotus L. Kang’s works give poetic form to reflections on themes spanning inheritance, impermanence, memory, and translation. Working fluidly between sculpture, photography and site-responsive installation, she frequently draws on unfixed, unstable materials and forms in her practice, giving evocative, often expansive shape to questions of “becoming.”
Kang has been commissioned to produce a major new installation for the Bvlgari Pavilion, one that continues her enduring engagement with time as multiplicitous and non-linear. Matthew Hyland, Executive Director of the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, has been appointed curator of the project.
This presentation is a centerpiece of Bvlgari’s role as Exclusive Partner of La Biennale di Venezia, a partnership that will continue across three editions of La Biennale through 2030.
The 61st International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia will run from May 9 to November 22, 2026.
Lotus L. Kang was born 1985 in Toronto. Kang studied fine arts at Concordia University in Montreal (2004-2008), and completed an MFA at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York, in 2015. The artist lives and works in New York.
Lotus L. Kang’s practice unfolds across sculpture, photography and site-responsive installation. Using an acute sensitivity towards process and space, her works explore self and environment as contingent, continuous and inseparable, with her materially dense, non-linear installations metabolizing and translating themes drawn from industrial and architectural forms, familial and social histories, poetry, and non-human figures, among others.
Selected solo exhibitions: Already, 52 Walker, New York (2025); In Cascades, CAG Vancouver, Vancouver (2023); In Cascades, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2023); Molt, MCA Chicago, Chicago (2023).
Selected institutional group exhibitions include: Does the flower hear the bee?, 15th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai (2025); Key Operators, Kunstverein Munich (2024); After Images, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (2024); A Woman You Thought You Knew, Kadist, San Francisco (2024); Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2024); GTA Triennial 2024, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2024); New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, New York (2021); In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, New York (2020); If I have a body, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada (2019).
Among other institutions, Kang's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; and Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.
