Irene Kung was born in Switzerland and trained as a painter. In recent years she expanded her repertoire to include photography and has achieved international recognition with many exhibitions in New York, London, Milan and more recently in Beijing and Moscow. She has exhibited at the Bozar Museum in Brussels, Belgium, at the Palazzo della Ragione in Milan and in the spectacular surroundings of the Certosa San Giacomo in Capri, Italy.

Her work has appeared in numerous international magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Sette del Corriere della Sera, China Daily and was selected by the international jury at ParisPhoto 2010. The Economist, May 2018, published an article on Irene Kung’s latest works, the Platinum Palladium Prints.

She was invited by Contrasto to contribute to EXPO 2015 with a solo show at the Fruit and Legumes Cluster featuring 26 photographs of fruit trees.

She recently had a solo show at Photo London 2018.

The recently published book Trees follows The Invisible City, on architecture photographs, which was published in 2012 in English, Italian, French and Chinese.

http://www.irenekung.com