Kyoung Eun Kang is a New York–based artist who was born and raised in South Korea. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses performance, video, painting, photography, installation, text, and sound. Central to her work is an ongoing dialogue between her Korean heritage and her life as an immigrant in the United States—an evolving process of exploration and experimentation with conceptions of identity, belonging, and human connection.

Through performative practices, Kang frequently uses her own body to connect people and to nurture shared emotional spaces—both literally and metaphorically. Her work affirms the value of human presence and the deep emotions that bind people together.

One of her notable video works, Flower Man, was created in collaboration with immigrant flower vendors in her New York City neighborhood. The video focuses on the simple yet poetic gesture of giving and receiving a flower between the artist and the workers. The piece highlights the essential—but often overlooked—contributions of immigrant communities and their role in sustaining the city’s vibrancy.

Another major project, Care Package, is an experimental live performance incorporating poetry, sound, movement, and audience participation. Developed over 15 years, this ongoing work reflects Kang’s evolving relationship with her mother, who remains in Korea, and meditates on themes of distance, care, and familial connection.

Building on her interest in personal and emotional connections across space and time, TRACES: 28 Days in Elizabeth Murray’s Studio delves into the spiritual realm, exploring how bonds with those who have passed might be sustained. Using her body as a vessel, she inhabited and transformed the studio of the late American painter Elizabeth Murray in an effort to revive it, creating movement-based rituals inspired by the traces left behind and initiating a dialogue between presence and memory.

Kang’s artistic practice delves into the tender yet resilient connection born of intimacy and carried across distances. Drawing from deeply personal encounters, everyday rituals, fleeting gestures, she engages the senses to explore new ways of cultivating closeness,even across distances of geography or culture.

 
Kang's work has been exhibited internationally and across the United States in numerous galleries and museums, including: A.I.R. Gallery, Collar Works, NURTUREart, BRIC Project Room, Soho 20 Project Room, Here Arts Center, and the ISCP project space in New York; the Korean Cultural Center in Washington, D.C.; the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Australia; the Museum of the Imperial City in China; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Korea. She has also performed in multiple venues, including: the Queens Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, Arario Gallery, FiveMyles, and Essex Flowers in New York; The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas; and others.

Kang has received residencies and fellowships from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell, Smack Mellon, the International Studio & Curatorial Program, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the LES Studio Program, the Marble House Project, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, the I-Park Foundation, ChaNorth, BRIC Media Arts, the NARS Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Fund, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
She holds a BFA and MFA in painting from Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea, and an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York, NY.