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