Commonwealth and Council presents Lotus L. Kang and Suki Seokyeong Kang for Frieze Los Angeles 2024. This presentation features bodies of work exhibited at Suki Seokyeong Kang’s recent exhibition at Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul and at Lotus L. Kang’s exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London. Showcasing a diverse array of works—spanning wall works and sculptures evoking Korean ink paintings comprised of industrial steel and hand-hewn thread and reed mats; flesh-colored light-sensitive unfixed films; and sculptural arrangements of readymade tatami mats with metal-cast elements like lotus roots and anchovies and porous silicone skins—Suki Seokyeong Kang and Lotus L. Kang compose uncanny juxtapositions of varied materials nodding to embodied memory and inherited traditions to unfurl a scenography that underscore how nature is ever changing, weaving a narrative of togetherness touching on the relationships between individuals and society, personal and collective history, and the body and the landscape.

Lotus L. Kang (b. 1985, Toronto; lives and works in Brooklyn) received an MFA from Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York (2018) and a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal (2008). Solo exhibitions have been held at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2023); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2023); Chisenhale Gallery, London (2023); and Franz Kaka, Toronto (2020). Selected group exhibitions have been held at SculptureCenter, Queens (2023); Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale on Hudson (2023); Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2023); and New Museum, New York (2021). Kang has participated in residencies at Triangle Arts Association, New York (2022); Horizon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, (2022); Banff Artist Residency (2020); and Rupert Residency, Vilnius (2018). 

Kang’s work is in the collections of Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Kadist Art Foundation; Rivoli Due Fondazione per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan; and Wrocław Contemporary Museum.

Suki Seokyeong Kang (b. 1977, Seoul; lives and works in Seoul) received an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London (2012) and an MFA and a BFA in Oriental Painting at Ewha Womans University, Seoul (2002, 2000). Solo exhibitions have been held at Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2023); Musée d'Art Contemporain du Luxembourg (2019); Seoul Museum of Art (2019); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2018); Audiovisual Pavilion, Seoul (2015); and Gallery Factory, Seoul (2013). Selected group exhibitions have been held at 58th Venice Biennale (2019); 10th Liverpool Biennial (2018); 12th Shanghai Biennale (2018); 12th and 10th Gwangju Biennale (2018, 2016); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, London (2012); MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2018); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2017); Villa Vassilieff, Paris (2016); and Seoul Museum of Art (2014). Kang is a recipient of Baloise Art Prize (2018) and Songeun Art Award (2013). Kang has participated in residency at Seoul Museum of Art (2014).

Kang’s work is in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Princeton University Art Museum; Mudam Luxembourg; Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Seoul Museum of Art; and Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul.