Ivetta Sunyoung Kang is a conceptual artist, independent researcher and poet who works across Canada, Germany, and South Korea, currently based in Toronto/Tkaronto. Their practice is rooted in cinematic and poetics. They are interested in unsettled emotions and sticky desires, lurking in social movements through the lens of political semiotics and transnational psychiatry studies. They work with video installation, geometric text, scriptural sculpture, and site-specific performance.
Solo
2024 The Great Confusion, Sensorium Centre, York University, Toronto, CA
2024 Archive Reindex Archive, Memex Room: Reindexing Archive, Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, CA
2024 Fatherless Hymn, Motherless Cacophony, Figureless Cradle, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, CA
2023 Indication of Melancholy Speech, Clark Centre, Montreal, CA
Group
2024 When the Others Lick underneath Your Tongue, Soul Jubilee, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, CA
2022 Proposition 1: Hands, Proximity, Pleasure, Plasticity: Performance and Image, Dazibao, Montreal, CA
2022 When the Others Lick underneath Your Tongue, DC Sound Scene, The Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., US
2022 Tenderhands, By Proxy, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, US
2020 Intolerance of Uncertainty, Orphaned Memories, 48 Stunden Neukolln, Berlin, DE
Publication
2024 Tenderhands Volume.1 #1-100, Leftie press, KR
2022 Tenderhands #1-100 Artist Book, Self-publication, Toronto, CA
Residency
2023 ZK/U, Berlin, DE
2022 AGO X RBC, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
2020 SomoS Art House, Berlin, DE
