KAREN TANG lives and works in London.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS ( catalogue)
2025 Sculpture in the Home (Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition), Burgh House, London
2025 More-Than-Human Stories: New Myths in the Making, The Street at CSM, London
2024-25 Soil, Toil & Table, Lethaby Gallery, London
2022 Magnetic Combo: Fast Time, Slow Time, Richard James, London
2020 Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, Dora House, London
2020 Z-series, curated section of Vienna Contemporary Art Fair
2019 The Size of Thoughts, White Conduit Projects, London
2018 Solid Gone, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
2018 New Relics, Thameside Gallery, London
2017-19 Sculpture in the City, London
2017 Window Sill, Griffin Gallery, London
2017 Fresh Air Sculpture, Gloucestershire
2017 it's for me, it's for you, l'étrangère, London (two-person exhibition with David Ben White)
2016 Reference Mollusk, Gossamer Fog, London
2015-16 Synapsid, KARST @ Millbay Road, Plymouth
2015 Cedrus Maximus, Ealing Council commission for Pitzhanger Manor & Walpole Park
2015 Look No Further, Mother Project Space, Hackney Wick, London
2014-15 Synapsid, Vitrine Gallery commission, 'Sculpture At Bermondsey Square', London
2013 1986 - 2013 / An artist collecting art, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway
2013 Void Open 2013 Sculpture Show, Hoxton Arches, London
2013 Stargazing, The National Trust at Mottisfont, Hampshire
2012 Circa 1960, Guest Projects, London
2011 Space Station Zsa Zsa, Pumphouse Gallery, London
2010 TWIG, Vitrine Gallery, London
2010 Scopodrome, The Agency, London
2010 Moon Miner and Twilight Rays, Dalston Superstore, London
2009 Great Britizens, The Agency, London
2008 l'apres moderne, Projet Midi, Brussels
2008 An Experiment in Collaboration, Jerwood Space, London
2008 The Urban Tendency, Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London
2008 Art Brussels 08, The Agency Gallery
2008 Projector, Centrifugal Projects, Art Rotterdam
2008 Against Nature, Vegas Gallery, London
2007 Reaspora, MAMA, Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam
2007 The Weasel: Pop Music and Contemporary Art, South London Gallery
2007 Breathe Residency Exhibition, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2007 Inauthentic, The Agency, London
2007 Why Can't We All Just Get Along, Sara Tecchia Gallery, New York
2007 Frauhaus, The Agency Gallery, London
2006 Four Green Horsemen, The Economist Plaza, London
2005 Artfutures, Contemporary Art Society at Bloomberg Space, London
2005 I just kept on going down, Zigfrid/Underbelly, London
2005 Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kingdom, Lincoln Museum, Lincoln
2004 Here We Are. Where?, Galeria Slodownia, Poznan
EDUCATION
2002-2004 MFA Sculpture (Distinction), Slade School of Art, UCL
1999-2002 BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture, Chelsea College of Art and Design
SELECTED AWARDS & AFFILIATIONS
2024 - ongoing UAL Staff PhD Fee Scholarship
2024 - ongoing Member of The Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS)
2024 - ongoing Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
2014 Arts Council England Grant for 'Synapsid' public sculpture, London
2014 Bermondsey Square Community Fund Award for 'Synapsid'
2013 New Creative Markets Award, European Regional Development Fund