Insight Outsight (detail IV), 2023. Photo courtesy the artist.
Opening Reception:
Insight Outsight by Ling-lin Ku
Mentor: Agnieszka Kurant
Thursday, November 9, 2023 from 6–8 pm
137 W. 25th Street, New York, NY
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Please join us for the opening reception for Insight Outsight, a solo exhibition by Pittsburgh-based artist Ling-lin Ku with mentorship from Agnieszka Kurant. The exhibition, presented at CUE’s gallery space, is the first New York City solo show by the artist, who is one of the awardees of CUE’s 2023 open call for solo exhibitions.
RSVPs to the opening reception are requested but not required. The event is free and all are welcome.
This exhibition will continue until December 22, 2023. CUE's gallery space is open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 12–6 pm. Please feel free to stop by at your convenience during these times; no registration is required.
Read more about the exhibition here, and see below to RSVP to the opening reception.
About the Artist
Ling-lin Ku is a visual artist currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. Her studio is a playground and an alchemy of the world. Ku plays with the space between digital data and tangible materials through digital fabrication. Her work draws from local references, including food, body parts, and products, but she recontextualizes them through proximity, scale, texture, display structures, and material, upending our relationship to the known. The work slips in and out of categorization, creating a new way in which we come to understand objecthood.
Ku’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, in cities that include Barcelona, Paris, Salzburg, New York, Richmond, Austin, Houston, and Los Angeles. She has been in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn; the Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg; Haystack Open Studio Residency in Maine; L'AiR Atelier 11 in Paris; and 18th Street Art Center in Los Angeles. She is also a recipient of the Seebacher Prize in Fine Arts awarded by American Austrian Foundation as well as the Umlauf Extended Prize for alumni of UT Austin. In 2019, she was named a Houston Artadia Fellow. In 2021, she received an honorable mention for the International Sculpture Center’s Innovator Award. Ku received an MFA from University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2022, she joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University where she is an assistant professor at the school of art.
About the Mentor
Agnieszka Kurant (Łódź, Poland, 1978) is a conceptual artist whose work investigates collective and nonhuman intelligences, the future of labour and creativity, and the exploitations within surveillance capitalism. Kurant is the recipient of the 2020 LACMA A+T Award, the 2019 Frontier Art Prize, and the 2022 Google AMI Award. Her past exhibitions include a solo show at Castello di Rivoli (2021-22) and at Hannover Kunstverein (2023); a commission for the façade of the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015); a permanent commission for the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; a solo show at the Sculpture Center (2013); and the Polish Pavilion at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture (with A. Wasilkowska, 2010). Her work was featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Pompidou Center, Paris; the Istanbul Biennial; SFMOMA; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Guggenheim Bilbao; CAPC Bordeaux; Kunsthalle Wien; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Moderna Museet, Malmö; GAMeC, Bergamo; Whitechapel Gallery, London; The Kitchen, New York; Triennale di Milano; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; Frieze Projects; Performa Biennial; and ZKM, Karlsruhe. Kurant was an Artist Fellow at the Berggruen Institute (2019-21), a visiting artist at MIT CAST (2018-2019), and a fellow at the Smithsonian Institute (2018).
Access Notes
This event is free of charge. Water and other beverages will be served. CUE Art Foundation is wheelchair accessible. There is an all-gender, ADA compliant, single-stall bathroom in the gallery. The closest wheelchair-accessible MTA subway stations are Penn Station and Herald Square. If you have additional access questions or needs, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org.