Laura Kung is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who uses textile making as an introspective tool. She explores ideas of identity and belonging and her methods draw from a place of contemplation, using slow conscious processes such as natural dyeing, tapestry weaving, floor loom weaving and patchworking to unveil complex perspectives as a first generation Chinese-Taiwanese American. Color, texture & light are used as mediums to create perceptual landscapes.
Laura has 7 years of industry experience in womenswear design and previously held the role of Senior Designer at Zero + Maria Cornejo focusing on color & fabric development, footwear design and wovens. She has also created original concepts and costumes for Bare Opera's production of Goyescas by Enrique Granados, La Cambiale di Matrimonio by Rossini, and off-Broadway production of The Pearl Diver.
She holds a B.S. in Fiber Science & Apparel Design from Cornell University and a MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design. She currently works as a material designer at Nike.
EXHIBITIONS:
2021 shit!, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York, NY
2020 Hybrid, Parsons MFA Textiles Thesis Exhibition, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2019 Thesis Work-in-progress, Parsons MFA Textiles Fall Open Studio, New York, NY
2019 Cerulean Waters, Smiling Hogshead Ranch, Long Island City, Queens
2019 Cut & Reassembled, Softly...Brightly, Parsons MFA Textiles Spring Open Studio, New York, NY
2018 Lands End...New Beginning, Parsons MFA Textiles Fall Open Studio, New York, NY
2009 Vibrato, Barbara L. Kuhlman Student Scholars’ Fiber Arts Exhibition, Ithaca, NY
PRESS:
What is Normal? / BOMB Magazine by Danni Shen
shit! Press Release / Artists Alliance Inc
Talking About Natural Dyes and Living Color with Laura Kung / The Color Association of the United States by Tess Murdoch
Hybrid Graduate Show at Mana Contemporary / New York Textile Month
For CV, access to design work and general inquiries, please contact:
kung.laura@gmail.com