Coffee Kang

Coffee Kang (b.1994, China) is a conceptual visual artist based in Los Angeles. Working with photography, performance, and installation, Kang welcomes the unknown into the process of making and incorporates the ephemeral part of the work. In rejection of product-driven art-making, the making of her works often and continues to evolve during and after exhibitions in response to time and environments. This primary mode of Kang’s practice has also landed her interest in alternative gallery spaces and site-responsive art. As a queer, a visa holder, an artist of color, and a metaphorically unhomed body that is always caught in between a liminal space at the intersection of identities, Kang reflects a sense of loss and longing, and a state of fluctuation in a larger social and cultural context. Taking a personal lens, she implements the aesthetics of melancholy and absurdity and provides intimate access for the audience to engage and resonate with narratives of impermanence and vulnerability. 

Kang holds a BA in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong (2016), and an MFA in Photo and Media from California Institute of the Arts (2018). Kang's works have been showcased internationally in Vienna, Leipzig, Budapest, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles at The Box, Last Projects, MAK Center, Launch LA, A Room to Create, and LA Artcore. Kang was an artist in residence at Pilotenkueche and Eastside International in 2019, and Level Ground in 2021.