Cole Lu (b. Taipei) lives and works in New York. Working across sculpture, installation, drawing, and writing, Lu’s practice explores myth, memory, and the architectures of displacement. His work engages material translation through wood burning, fire, linen, copper, found objects, and concrete, activating poetics of survival, orientation, and coded refusal. Language operates not only as text but as texture, carving lexicons into matter and myth into structure.
Lu has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA (Portland), Herald St (London), Each Modern (Taipei), and the Bangkok Art Biennale. His work will be featured in upcoming 2026 exhibitions at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (Cambridge) and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Recent group exhibitions include Aranya Art Center (Qinhuangdao), Kunsthal N (Copenhagen), Bortolami (New York), Tina Kim Gallery (New York), and Nova Contemporary (Bangkok).
His writing has appeared in Coffee House Press, Inpatient Press, Something Curated, and WONDER, with forthcoming work from Montez Press. His work is held in the collections of DIB Bangkok Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library, and has been featured in Frieze, Artforum, Flash Art, ArtReview, and ArtAsiaPacific.
He was recently Artist-in-Residence at Bangkok Kunsthalle.