Lily Kwong is a landscape designer and director of Studio Lily Kwong, working at the intersection of horticulture, urban design, contemporary art, and fashion and wellness. With an academic background in urban planning, she draws inspiration from the Land Art Movement, using plants as a medium to reimagine the urban landscape — and replanting or repurposing them afterward. Kwong’s botanical art installations have been featured on The High Line, Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall, The Whitney Museum, and more. She was named one of 9 Young New Yorkers Poised for Creative Greatness by The New York Times and to Forbes’s 30 Under 30 in Art and Style. The landscape editor of Cultured Magazine, she’s a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator.
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The word city is not exactly synonymous with nature. Yet increasingly, urban landscapes offer innovative canvases for designers and artists who use ecology and horticulture as...