About
Liane Lang is a mixed media artist with a focus on the conversation between sculpture and photography. In her work she frequently prints images onto unusual materials and objects to explore the tension between the narrative and historical dimension of the image and the texture, scale and presence of the material world. Lang takes a particular interest in monuments, statues and historic spaces and uses a wide range of materials from bark, lead and leather to marble and bronze.
Lang studied at National College of Art and Design in Dublin, took a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, and an MFA at the Royal Academy Schools, London graduating in 2006. She lives and works in the East End of London. She has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally, including the Royal Academy of Arts, Musée de Beaux Arts Calais, PS1 New York, Kunstwerke, Berlin and Kunstverein Heidelberg. She won the Photofusion Award, the Tooth Travel Award and the Selina Cheneviere Prize. In 2019 she completed a fellowship at Fundacion BilbaoArte in Spain. 2021 has seen a solo show in London at James Freeman Gallery and a residency with Ampersand Foundation and the Wirksworth Festival which culminated in a major installation in 2022.
In 2022 she created a video, sound and sculptural performance at the Museo Guggenheim in Bilbao as part of the Toparte program. In 2019 she exhibited a major installation at Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany as part of Come Back and at James Simon Gallery, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, as part of Nah am Leben. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, such as Royal Academy of Arts, MoMA, V&A, The Art Institute of Chicago, Arts Council England, the Saatchi Collection, Deutsche Bank, Kunstverein Bregenz, Ernst and Young and the Collection of the Kunstamt Spandau, Berlin.
Education
Royal Academy Schools, Postgraduate 2006
Goldsmiths’ College, London, BA Hons. Fine Art 1998
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Foundation Course 1995
Solo Shows and public projects
2024 Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2024 Touch Stone, The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire, UK
2022 Touch Stone at Maltings Gallery, Wirksworth Festival
2022 The Lead Cycle, Moot Hall, Wirksworth
2021 Glorious Oblivion, James Freeman Gallery, London
2018 Lian Zhou Festival of Photography, China, solo presentation by international artist
2018 Old School, James Freeman Gallery, London
2017 Old School, Eton College Gallery, solo exhibition, by Marcelle Joseph
2015 MEM Bilbao Photography Festival, Prize Winner Exhibition
2015 Saatchi Gallery, The Saints
2014 Kaleid 2014, Amnesiac Patina, photographic works
2014 An Idle Brain is Satan’s Shoppe, House of St Barnabas, solo presentation, curated by Marcelle Joseph Projects
2013 Monumental Misconceptions, Rosenberg Gallery, New York
2013 Fallen, Art First Projects
2012 Permanent Commission The Long Way Home
2011 House Guests, WW Gallery, London
2010 Monumental Misconceptions, KvH Projects, London,
2010 Shadows and Stowaways with Squid/Tabernacle, Dalston, London
2010 Mesmeric Monument at Supernova Gallery, Riga
Talks accompanying the exhibition at KIM Institute
supported by the British Council, catalogue
2009 La Muralla, Public Commission, Portobello Road, RBKC
2008 Artist at Apsley, Flora Fairbairn Projects
2007 Fondling Germanicus, Kunstverein Heidelberg
Selected Group Shows
2024 Dark Peak, Photography Festival, Glossop
2023 The New Hero, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, Cuny, New York
2023 James Freemann Gallery, Unreal, photography exhibition
2023 Vanguardia Gallery, Bilbao
2023 Oliver Projects at the Woolwich Print Fair
2023 Roots, with Wency Lam, funded by ACE, Mem Festival, Bilbao
2023 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2023 Manana Incierto – Outwith Festival Dunfermline
2023 Reasons to Tremble, Management, New York City
2023 Tremenheere Gardens, Cornwall, curated by Hugh Mendes
2023 PowerPlay, Oliver Projects, London
2022 Girl Meets Girl, Kunstlaboratorium Vestfossen, Norway
2022 Mythical Political, Firestation Creative, Dunfermline Scotland
2022 Epilogue Willesden Gallery, London
2020 On Time, James Freemann Gallery
2020 Iasi Museum of Art, Romania
2019 Heterotopia, Sarean Artspace, Bilbao
2019 Royal Academy of Arts permanent collection display
2018 Ghost Tide curated by Sarah Sparkes and Monica Bobinska
2018 Kukuli Velarde and Liane Lang, James Freeman Gallery
2018 From Life, Royal Academy of Arts, Sackler Gallery
2018 Kunstverein Bregenz, Magazin 4,
2017 Grisaille at Leila Heller Gallery, New York
2017 You see me like a UFO at Marcelle Joseph Projects, Ascot
2015-17 Enthüllt, Berlin and its Monuments, Museum Zitadelle Spandau,
2017 Der Zauberberg, Iavomirovic-Hughes Gallery, London
2016 Marion de Canniere Gallery, Antwerp, curated by Leigh Clarke
2016 Perfectionsim III, Griffin Gallery, curated by Becca Pelly-Fry
2016 Ikons, Candida Stephens Fine Art, West Sussex
2016 James Freeman Gallery, London, Intruder Alert with Nigel Grimmer
2016 Neo Realism, GiG Gallery, Munich
2016 Märkisches Museum Berlin, Adolph Menzel Ausstellung
2014 Sigmund Freud, 21er Haus Berlin, curated by Joseph Kosuth
2014 Monument, Musee de Beaux Arts, Calais
2014 Folkstone Triennial Fringe, curated by Sarah Gillham
2014 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2014 curation, Froward, exhibition of women artists at Eton College,
2014 Salon 67, new photographic works, SoHo, New York
2014 Onsite, TAP Southend, curated by Mike Nelson and Andrew Hunt
2013 Brighton Photo Fringe, Phoenix Gallery, curated by Daniel C Blight
2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, runs until August 2013
2013 German Historic Museum Berlin, The Last Days, Project for Kulturthemenjahr ‘Loss of Diversity’, runs to 10 November 2013, Berlin
2013 Leicester University Botanic Gardens, A Change of Heart, Sculpture Exhibition, curated by Almuth Tebbenhoff and Tom Flynn
2013 Purdey Hicks Gallery, London, summer show
2013 RAC Club, Kiss Me Deadly, curated by Jessica Holmes
2012 Photofusion Gallery, AMPS Exhibition
Collections
Royal Academy of Arts
MoMA
Victoria and Albert Museum
Kunstamt Spandau
Deutsche Bank
Saatchi Collection
Ernst and Young
Jay Joplin
Artscouncil England
BilbaoArte Fundacion
Kunstverein Bregenz
Art Omi Collection
Numerous private collections
Awards
2019 AN Bursary Award Winner
2018 Julia Margaret Cameron Photo Award Finalist
2016 Cointreau Creative Crew Finalist
2015 MEM Photography Festival Bilbao 1st Prize
2014 Birgit Skiöld Memorial Award of Excellence
2012 Hotshoe Photography Award 2012
2010 British Council Award, Riga
2009 RBKC Artists Award, Budapest
2006 Selina Cheneviere Fellowship
2006 Hugh Merrell Dissertation Award
2005 Henry Moore Foundation Production Award
Residencies
2021 The Lodge Project, Wirksworth
2020 Elephant Lab Residency, West London, January 2020
2019 Fundacion BilbaoArte, Spain
2017 Espositivo Madrid
2016 City University of New York, artist residency
2015 Eton College Residency Fellowship
2015 Vermont Studio Centre Fellowship
2014 Bogliasco Foundation Artist Fellowship, Genoa
2014 Museum Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin
2013 Art Omi International residency program, Upstate New York
2012 Willums Foundation, Provence
2012 Heart House, residency at Westmoreland Heart Hospital
2011 Matthew Bown Gallery, Berlin
2010 Gallery Supernova Riga, Latvia
2009 Memento Sculpture Park, Budapest
Publications and Press
2019 ComeBack, Kunsthalle Tübingen
2019 Nah Am Leben, James Simon Gallery, Berlin
2018 LianZhou Festival of Photography
2017 From Life, Royal Academy of Arts
2017 Old School, artist’s book
2017 Printmaking in the Expanded Field, Ed Jan Pettersson
2017 Garageland Magazine, essay by Anna Kim
2016 Elephant Magazine, Feature article
2016 Vrij Nederland Magazine
2016 Enthüllt, ein anderer Umgang mit Denkmälern, Museum Zitadelle Spandau Berlin
2016 Intruder Alert, catalogue James Freeman Gallery, Liane Lang and Nigel Grimmer
2015 One Minute Story, curated by Maria Kapajeva, online audio recording
2015 Interview with Yale University Radio, Brainard Carey
2014 Amnesiac Patina, A Sculptural Photobook, Kaleid Editions, Arts Council England
2013 Hotshoe Magazine Feb/March Issue
2013 Studio International, online video interview
2013 Change of Heart, Catalogue, Leicester University Press
2012 Royal Academy Website, Video Interview
2012 BBC Culture Show, presented by Alastair Sooke
2012 Vis Loci, geography of the artist’s studio, catalogue
2012 once upon a time in the west, limited edition
2012 What is an Artists Book? Published by Modern Language Experiment
2010 October, Eyemazing Magazine, Amsterdam
2010 Monumental Misconceptions, Liane Lang, Catalogue
Employment
2020 Elephant Academy,Painting
2017 - 2020 ESOP Contemporary Fine Art
2015- 2019 LCC University of the Arts London, BA Photography VL
2014-2018 Visiting Lecturer, University of the Creative Arts, Farnham VL
2011-19 Frieze Art Fair Tour Guide for Deutsche Bank
2017-present Essential School of Painting, Visiting Lecturer
2016 visiting lecturer Atelier at Ecole de Beaux Arts, Caen
2016 lecture at Corner College Zürich
2001-2018 University of Greenwich, BA Graphic Design, Architecture, VL
2012-2017 Royal Academy Schools, Postgraduate Fine Art, VL
2014 John Jay, City University New York, Adjunct Professor Fixed Term J1 Visiting Scholar
2013 Lecture Spence School, New York City
2013 Lecture Aicad New York Studio Program, Brooklyn, Graduate Program
2013 Lecture Hofstra University, Long Island City
2003-2005 Working Men’s College, Fine Art Foundation Course Adult IT Evening classes in Video Editing, Photoshop, Digital Photography
2000-2002 Westminster Kingsway College, Fine Art Foundation Course Adult Evening Classes in Adobe Photoshop and Desktop Publishing
2003-2006 Visiting Lecturer Central St Martin’s College, BA Fine Art Lectures, Talks and Workshops at Focal Point Gallery, University of Hatfield, Camberwell College of Art
Numerous Talks and Workshops at Focal Point Gallery, University of Hatfield, Camberwell College of Art