Photo: Ken Lum
Ken Lum’s art is concerned with issues of identity, especially as they relate to image production in contemporary urban society. Working across multiple media, Lum’s art aims to challenge our fixed ideas about who we are when faced with the processes and pressures of cultural and political assimilation.
Since his first solo exhibition in New York in 1982, Ken Lum has developed a complex body of work that includes Furniture-Sculptures, Portrait-Logos, Language Paintings, Photo-Mirrors and Shopkeeper series works. All of his work involves the dialectics of private and public constructions of identity, space and politics.
Lum has participated in many prestigious international art exhibitions including Documenta XI, Shanghai Biennale, Sydney Biennale, Carnegie International, the Sáo Paulo Bienal, The Venice Biennale and the Johannesburg Biennale. He is an active writer who has published in many leading art journals and magazines including, Art & Text, Art Margins, Nka: The Journal of Contemporary African Art and Art & Collections. He is also Founding Editor of Yishu: The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.
Lum has also curated major exhibitions, both historical and contemporary. He was curator of the 2004 NorthWest Annual exhibition held at Center of Contemporary Art in Seattle, Shanghai Modern: 1919 - 1945 for the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, and co-curator of Sharjah Biennial 7, held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. More recently, Lum has been working on a number of public art commissions, including ones for the cities of Vancouver, Vienna, Toronto, Stockholm, Zurich and Leiden. These new works are more involving of a language of critical urban politics. Lum was made a Guggenheim Fellow in 1998, and awarded a Killam Award for Outstanding Research.
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Symposium C6 runs concurrent with 