Lunch on Fridays: Ling-lin Ku
Schedule
Fri Apr 10 2026 at 12:15 pm to 01:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH, United States, Ohio 44106 | Cleveland, OH
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Spend your lunch hour with multimedia sculptor Ling-lin Ku as she discusses her studio practice and art trajectory. Her exhibition Morning After opens tonight as part of The Sculpture Center’s 2026 Revealed Emerging Artist Solo Exhibition Series. Ku’s talk will take place during Lunch on Fridays from 12:15 to 1:30pm Friday, April 10 in CIA's Peter B. Lewis Theater. Morning After will be on view at The Sculpture Center April 10 through June 6, 2026. An opening reception will be held 5:30–8pm on April 10 with a brief artist talk at 6:30pm.
The large-scale sculptures in Morning After merge breakfast imagery and sexual motifs to construct a psychoscape of desire, indulgence, and vulnerability. Seductive at first glance, these works hover between appetite and excess, intimacy and exposure, pleasure and discomfort. Familiar domestic forms are exaggerated, hybridized, and materially distorted, transforming everyday rituals of consumption into charged emotional landscapes. Adding to this discomfort, Ling-lin Ku fuses handcrafted and digitally fabricated elements to create sculptures that feel tactile yet uncanny. Through this interplay of attraction and unease, Morning After invites viewers to confront the messy intersections of fantasy, longing, and embodiment.
This edition of Lunch on Fridays is held in partnership with The Sculpture Center.
Image credit: Lunch Break, 2022; hardwood, plywood, bronze, milk paint; 8in. x 6 in x 28in.
Image credit: Lunch Break, 2022; hardwood, plywood, bronze, milk paint; 8in. x 6 in x 28in.
Speaker Bio: Ling-lin Ku is a multimedia sculptor whose studio practice is both a playground and an alchemy of the world where she plays in-between tangible materials and digital data. Her work merges traditional techniques with emerging technologies, resulting in sculptural installations that are materially rich, playful, and conceptually layered.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions at CUE Art Foundation in New York City (NY), 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles (CA), Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum in Austin (TX) Baltimore Jewelry Center (MD), La Heurta Gallery in Barcelona, Spain, and Atelier 11 in Paris, France.
Ling-lin is the recipient of the Seebach Prize in Fine Art from the American Austrian Foundation, the Umlauf Expanded Prize, and a Houston Artadia Fellowship. Her work has been recognized with an Honorable Mention for the International Sculpture Center’s Innovator Award in 2022, and with Harpo Foundation grant in 2025.
Ling-lin earned her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2019) and her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2016). She is currently a faculty member at Oberlin College.
Parking: Lunch on Fridays attendees may park in CIA's Lot 73 and Annex Lot, both of which surround our campus. Please note that signs posted around those lots correctly state that parking typically requires a CIA permit or visitor pass and that violators will be ticketed. However, to accommodate our valued Lunch on Fridays attendees, that policy won't be enforced during the program. Have questions? Please contact Reinberger Gallery at [email protected] or 216.421.7407.
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