Ken Lum

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Ken Lum
BornSeptember 26, 1956
Contemporary artist
Four Boats Stranded: Red and Yellow, Black and White was installed upon the roof of the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2001

Kenneth Robert Lum,

media including painting, sculpture and photography, his art ranges from conceptual to representational and is generally concerned with issues of identity about the categories of language, portraiture and spatial politics.[2]

Early life

Lum was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1956 and grew up in East Vancouver.[3]

Rotterdam kunstwerk Melly Shum hates her job

Career

Lum received a MFA from University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1985.[4] One of his earliest major projects was his Portrait-Logo series from the mid-1980s, in which he paired portraits with logos, names, or descriptive text.[5] The works borrow from the aesthetics of family photography and advertising, sometimes also commenting on stereotypes of gender and ethnicity.[5] By creating a tension between image and text, Lum destabilizes meaning and makes the viewer conscious of their role in constructing meaning.[5]

His artwork is represented by the New York City gallery Magenta Plains.[6]

Teaching

From 2000 to 2006, Lum was Head of the Graduate Program in

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris
from 1995 to 1997 while taking leave from UBC.

Lum has also guest taught at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste or

Banff Centre.[7] In 2012, Lum joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design[8] in Philadelphia. In 2013, he was appointed a Fellow of the Penn Institute for Urban Research.[9] In 2019, he was appointed a University of Pennsylvania Presidential Professor with title Marilyn Jordan Taylor
Presidential Professor of Fine Arts. Lum is the 2023 artist honoree of the Institute of Contemporary Art of Philadelphia's annual benefit event.

Awards

Ken Lum: Pi
Ken Lum: Verliebte in Wien

While at the University of British Columbia, he was awarded the Killam Award for Outstanding Research in 1998 and garnered a John Simon

Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.[16]
Lum won the Scotiabank Photography Award in 2023.

Exhibitions

Work by Ken Lum for the Whitney Biennial 2014

Lum participated in the

Whitney Museum of American Art invited Lum to exhibit as part of the 2014 Whitney Biennial.[21] In 2018, he exhibited in a survey exhibition at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco. In 2022, due to Lum's being a recipient of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2019), the exhibition Ken Lum: Death and Furniture was held at the Art Gallery of Ontario curated by Xiaoyu Weng and co-organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Remai Modern.[22]

Peace Through Valour (Battle of Ortona)

Art service activities

Lum has served on numerous public committees, including directorship of the then non-funded Or Gallery (Vancouver) from 1982 to 1984 and the City of Vancouver's Public Art Committee from 1994 to 1996. He was on the board of directors for the Or Gallery 1992 - 1994,

Brink Award (Seattle) for emerging North West artists (British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon). From 2011 to 2017, Lum served on the board of the Canada Post Stamp Advisory Committee in Ottawa, Ontario.[24] From 2011 to 2012, Lum served as a board member of The Power Plant
Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto).

In 2003, Lum was a juror for the

King Salman Park project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
.

Writings

In 1997, Lum was a keynote speaker for the Universities Art Association of Canada annual conference.

Shanghai Art Museum in Shanghai
, China. On January 17, 2020, Lum gave the keynote address for the inauguration of the Melly multi-purpose venue in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. On October 13, 2020, he gave the keynote address for the Becoming Public Art virtual conference in Markham, Ontario.

From 1999 to 2001, Lum wrote an

online journal for LondonArt,[30] which chronicled both his passion for and misgivings about art. Artco-founded Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art[31] in 2000, along with Zheng Shengtian, and was Editor-in-Chief until 2004. With Zheng Shengtian, he co-organized the first large-scale international curators' tour of China in 2000, which included curators for Documenta, Dia Art Foundation, Renaissance Society, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Gate Foundation and the Art Gallery of Ontario
.

He has written numerous essays with themes ranging from the relationship of art to ethnology for the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, Netherlands, to the art of Chen Zhen for the Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna Kunsthalle). Other essays include a historical analysis of Canadian Cultural Policy,[32] One paper presented to the Department of Caribbean Studies at Yale University was about the issue of multiple identities in relation to Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa. In 2008, Lum completed an art book project with French philosopher Hubert Damisch.[33] Titled Ultimo Bagaglio, it was created by Three Star Books[34] of Paris. In 2009, Lum contributed an essay regarding the problems confronting art education today for Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century) published by MIT Press. In 2012, coinciding with his move to Philadelphia, Lum began writing a quarterly art column for Artazine, a Canadian Art magazine. In 2013, he presented a paper for publication on contemporary art versus visual culture for the M+ Museum of Visual Culture of the West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong. He also presented a paper on the work of conceptual artist Ian Wilson at the Dia Art Foundation in New York.[35] In 2016, Lum contributed a catalog essay for the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. The book and catalog for the exhibition and project "Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia" was issued in the fall of 2019 by Temple University Press. A book of writings titled "Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991 - 2018" was released by Concordia University Press in early 2020.[36] In 2020, he completed a screenplay about comparative racism after the American Civil War.

Curatorial

Lum's activities include several curatorial projects. He was Director of the non-profit and then non-funded Or Gallery in Vancouver from 1982 to 1984. While Or Gallery Director, he curated PoCo Rococo, an exhibition held in

The Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, the largest international contemporary art biennale in the Middle East. In 2015, along with Paul Farber and A. Will Brown, Lum co-conceived and co-curated Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia, a public art and urban research project sited in the courtyard of Philadelphia City Hall. The project consisted of a specially designed research pavilion, a prototype monument by artist Terry Adkins, and free dialogues led by Philadelphia artists and critical thinkers using William Penn's iconic plan for the city's five public squares as inspiration.[39]

Public art

Lum has worked on several public art projects. In Vienna in 2000, Lum realized a 540 square meter work on the side of the centrally located Kunsthalle Wien for the non-profit art initiative museum in progress.[40] The work, There is no place like home, generated controversy as Lum saw the work as a response to the growth of the extreme right in Europe. Lum's Four Boats Stranded: Red and Yellow, Black and White was installed upon the

racial vision presented in the hymn "Jesus Loves the Little Children."[42]

Lum realized a second permanent public art commission outside St. Moritz,[43] Switzerland in 2003 that dealt with the declining Romansch way of life in the remote Engadine region of Switzerland. The work titled Il Buolf Mus-chin Museum was a commission of the Walter A. Bechtler Foundation of Zurich and the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.

In 2005, Lum completed A Tale of Two Children: A Work for Strathcona, a permanent work commissioned by the City of Vancouver's Public Works Yard. Another major public art commission by Lum, sponsored by the city of

Utrecht, Netherlands. The work is located in the Nieuw Welgelegen district,[45]
a troubled but dynamic multi-ethnic area of Utrecht that is undergoing redevelopment. The work titled January 1, 1960 consists of a monumentally scaled topographical and political globe of the world as it looked at the start of 1960.

In early 2010, Lum completed Monument for East Vancouver, colloquially known as the

St Louis, Missouri and Longue Vue House and Gardens[48] in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2016, Lum completed a memorial to the Canadian war effort in Italy during World War II[49] Lum's memorial centered on the Battle of Ortona where Canadian troops were victorious but suffered heavy losses.[50] The memorial is sited in Nathan Phillips Square by Toronto City Hall. Lum won a commission in 2016 to design a memorial to the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon. The memorial project was canceled due to secessionist unrest in the area. A large public art project for the block 13 development in North York
, Toronto, was completed in the spring of 2019.

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